Had it with the Food Channel...

[Karen]

Karen,

I missed that episode. But think of this! Charm City cake packaged trifles, now in you refridgerated food section? There probably isn't enough extra cake for huge distribution, but I am sure that people would be willing to pay a few bucks extra for the product?

Hey, email him the suggestion, maybe you'd get royalties?

[RICHARD]

Hey, email him the suggestion, maybe you'd get royalties?

I'd settle for a trifle and an honorable mention!

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About the TVFN Food Challenges.

I read that the restaurant industry was taking it on the chin because of the economic climate.

The promotion is pretty brilliant.

A new menu that covers the whole range of food.

You promote it as a contest, pay 25,000 dollars for the rights to those recipes and sell them at TGI Fridays.

At 10 bucks a plate for the main courses and 2.50 for a piece of cake, pie..you recoup the prize money and make a profit after 2,000 plates.

The thing that got me were the 2nd and 3rd place prizes......Freaking cookwear? Toss them some love, a coupla grand and a gift certificate to TGIFs maybe?

[RICHARD]

Why do some of the soundtracks/theme music for the TVFN shows sound like bad porn music?

The RR intro theme to 30 mninute meals makes me want to scream....If I am flipping thru the channels and hear it I cringe!

Don't ask me why I think this.
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The Next TVFN humiliation starts on Sunday! I can hardly wait to see how Booby Flake and Mr Tushman treat the next round of talent!

I saw the previews and they is a gal that takes a header in the kitchen....
Lovely!

I can see it know...Hey, aren't you the gal that fell in the kitchen during that cooking contest?

[Karen]

If I were to enter one of these things - that would be me. Maybe SHE had half her sense of balance surgically removed, too, and we'll get a nice PSA on hidden disabilities? Or maybe, like me prior to said surgery, she is just a klutz anyway.

Should be interesting, anyway ...

[Daisy and Delilah]

I can't wait!!! Since Amy Findley disappeared, I hope the next one they pick makes it

[Daisy and Delilah]

Did anyone see Paula's Party last night? Rosie O'Donnell was her guest--at least at the beginning, I had to turn the channel. Paula was acting ridiculous and Rosie was acting worse than usual. The two of them together was more than I could take. It was obnoxious.

[RICHARD]

Did anyone see Paula's Party last night? Rosie O'Donnell was her guest--at least at the beginning, I had to turn the channel. Paula was acting ridiculous and Rosie was acting worse than usual. The two of them together was more than I could take. It was obnoxious.

DUDE!

WTF was with the playing with her hair in the kitchen?

I saw that part and followed your lead. Told you, PD is the obnoxious aunt that gets to drinking at your holiday parties and hits on all the men.

OH, OH!

What is the idea of sticking her fingers into the mouths of men that she invites on stage with her- that's really gross-unless it's your wife or hubby-but a total stranger?

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About the NFNS-

I had to laugh at the first challenge. Cook your signature dish and make up another dish with your team mate.

Cooking is from the soul......It's love and care.

How can they judge a signature dish cooked in a half hour? Oh, I forgot, the Terrorist rachael ray can do it!

I failed the test....It takes me at least four hours to think about my signature dish.

[Karen]

Spoiler ... if you haven't seen the Top Chef finale yet!













I was very glad that Stephanie won. She seems like a genuinely nice person, as well as an excellent chef. Richard made some mistakes, and admitted he "choked," but I was just glad that Lisa didn't win, as she always struck me as too arrogant and abrasive.

[RICHARD]

Richard made some mistakes

I know, I'm not perfect!

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The end kinda fizzled out....I thought the chefs helping out was kinda neat and pulling them from was cruel! What an opportunity! To cook with a legend.


The Richard thing kinda puzzled me at first. I sat there and wondered about him doing it as a 'pity move' then I saw that he was sincere and took great pride in what he cooked.-

Yeah, Lisa wasn't the easiest person to root for..

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I watched Dinner Impossible last night and was torn between not liking Irvine.and felling sorry for him. But then I started to laugh and thought about Marc Summers and Boob Tooshman! SUCKERS!!!!!!

With the Martha Stewart Machine showing up more and more on on TVFN I can't help but wonder if she has anything to do with the tightening up the screening of the people on the shows?

It really hurts Summers because it's HIS production company- He produces the programs and then sells them to TVFN. It's like the Alton Brown confession. I always thought he had some kind of Chem/Food prep schooling.

Nope. I can read from a script and act out food skits. No, I don't have a banana dance!

He fell outta favor for me. I know it's hard to get ideas for so many programs, but to make it sound like you are the main brain, that bugs!

When I cook a steak, I always make sure that I turn up the heat to full burner. I came up with this idea when I....


Dude, it was the script writers!!!!

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Last thing about Irvine.

He'll show up on Survivor or one of those reality shows where they put disgraced celebs into a house and make them compete against each other.

BTW, Martha got a second chance and she's a FELON!!!!

[Daisy and Delilah]

I am having a terrible case of pity for Irvine myself. He just looks pitiful now to me.

Looking forward to seeing the show tomorrow night with Mothra.

[RICHARD]

MOTHRA!

LOVE IT!

She is like a friggin moth that you get inside the house during the summer.
It shows up at the strangest times and bugs the crap outta you.

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Ted Allen has a new show scheded for the TVFN.

It's described as "Good Eats, Mythbusters" and another show I can't remember.

I saw Ted Allen walking down Hollywood Blvd a few months ago. He knows he's TA and he walks like it too! Hard to miss.....

He's gonna do stuff like finding out if an apple a day, does keep the doctor away and how long chewing gum takes to digest....


Here's some suggestions from me.....

How to keep the price of corn down.
How does salmonella get into the food chain.
Why I only get two pickle chips in my Big Mac.
How to get food into Darfur.

You know, real stories about food and how to keep people from starving!

[Daisy and Delilah]

I still can't understand why they give these people so little time to complete the challenge. It ruins everything.

Mothra tried to act friendly but it just isn't possible for her. She never eats sloppy Jane's/Joe's --yada yada yada

I looked into my crystal ball and I really think Lisa will be the winner. She seems to make the judges happy almost every time. Just a guess.

Thank goodness that they finally told the little blond to tone it down. Do we really believe she wasn't putting on a big act like she implied?

[cassiesmom]

so what did I miss on the Next Food Network Star? Is the Lisa creature gone yet? I think Nipa the Spice Queen should have been dumped last week after her little exit scene... last year's winner isn't even on food network anymore ...

[Daisy and Delilah]

Karen, I think you're so right about the little blonde. She's been rehearsing this thing for years. I hope she takes some of the enthusiasm down a notch. She seems to have a spirit and energy like Ricochet Rachel. Mothra can never be nice to anybody. Her huge empire, and ginormous head, hinder her from being polite and real. I can't help but wonder what she does eat
Lisa is pretty emotional. I respect Mothra for being so successful but I can't see crying over meeting her. I think other additional emotions brought out the waterworks. I see now that she takes a pretty bad fall on the next show. She gets up with food all over her face. It looks brutal and so does she. The average person probably would have gotten badly hurt in such an accident.
I don't know if she can hold up or not. It seems to me that we have enough women on Food Network. Do we really need another one? It might be time for something a little different.

Elyse: Lisa is still there. She was the one that won the challenge along with another fella-I can't remember who right now. I think it was the bald black guy.
Nipa makes everything too spicy to eat. How interesting is a show going to be with all Indian cooking? Oooooh, that's right, we have one with all Italian don't we? I don't see Nipa with the personality she needs for the network.
I would love to find out what happened to Amy Findlay from last year. I voted for the other contestant. I thought she would have been alot better. I think her name was Rori. She was pretty good.

[cassiesmom]

so what did I miss on the Next Food Network Star? Is the Lisa creature gone yet? I think Nipa the Spice Queen should have been dumped last week after her little exit scene... last year's winner isn't even on food network anymore ...

It's now two weeks later and the Lisa creature is still there. I hate to admit this, but she is starting to grow on me. Jennifer was eliminated last night and I was not surprised. I am rooting for Shane and Kelsey, though. Lisa is too much like last year's winner (Amy).