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[spatch]

PHRASES THE FOOD NETWORK IS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO USE

"The Ultimate"
"Chowhound"
"Smackdown"
"Challenge"

PROGRAMS THE FOOD NETWORK WILL NOW DEVELOP JUST TO SPITE ME

The Ultimate Chowhound Smackdown Challenge

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I wish Bourdain would stop ragging on vegetarians. I think his idea of a foodie is someone who will eat anything and everything without squick or an ethical dilemma. It's a fun show, but at the same time is disturbingly macho in an "I can crap bigger than you" sort of way.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

That's the guy... "Let's slam it on the table and see what you have".

I don't mind him ragging on vegetarians: and I am one. :-)

He once did a show that ran directly from a review of New York, into a show by Andrew Zimmerman. The transition was literally the two of them meeting on a beach in Brooklyn. Bourdain made a few comments about Zimmerman taking it a bit too far, as I recall.

I think a real foodie will try anything. That's what moves them from the category of "like the rest of us".