worst sounding sushi roll at guy fieri's southern bbq & california style sushi restaurant tex wasabi's

xposting homemade pizza dough is sooooooo much better than store dough. But homemade pizza sauce ... meh. Not worth the effort for the slight results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZ-0UtTRTQ
"hey water moccasins"

homemade pizza dough is sooooooo much better than store dough

i disagree, i made my own dough for a couple of years and the TJs dough is just as good if not better then what i made. maybe i just suck though.

for real though, emus scare the shit outta me

This is one of my go-to pizza doughs, pretty versatile:

http://www.shaboomskitchen.com/archives/bread/painlancienne.html

I've also got nothing but good things to say about this book:

http://images.indiebound.com/222/084/9781580084222.jpg

i will make my donkey sauce pizza with real pizza dough if i'm allowed to

you are not

ok that's what i figured

I will make my donkey sauce with real donkeys, if it is legal.

proceed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58

^^ guy, change that to "put some donkey sauce on it." we're all about the free ad ideas for you, buddy.

The sin of his restaurant seems to be making food that lacks the love the spots he celebrates cooks into its food, from scratch, every day.

a man whose brand was built on his unreserved praise for food and people deserving of that praise, and who in entering the arena himself revealed a hollowness that threatens to undermine everything he’s done

bullseye

had no idea he changed his name from ferry

that's a great blog post imo. i don't have quite as much love for triple-d as that guy does but he captures what's great about the show when it's at its best.

i think the next step of that critique is the difference between guy as a sort of contemporary food anthropologist who's had 20 different versions of red-eye gravy and can tell you why this most recent one is great, and guy as a "chef" (to the extent that he even is one) with a demonstrable lack of taste when it comes to what his own kitchens produce.

i need to make more pizzas

It's bullshit, Fieri won a food network show and was plopped into DD&D as a vehicle. As the citypages article mentioned earlier mentioned, the show existed before him, it just needed a personality. Fieri's other, pre existing restaurants are bullshit. He might relate well to the food sometimes, but he can't even handle if the owners are gay or whatever.

Giving him credit for on-air banter and relatability to the common man is nice, but finding dive food relatable isn't a unique talent, and not what he brought to it.

yup

it's not "what he brought to it" but it's "what he ostensibly stood for," there is a difference

I mean, I have a friend who has a tenderloin sandwich blog, and has visited something like a hundred places serving tenderloins in his state alone. Fieri doesn't do that, and members of the production team are looking at websites, travel guides, and newspapers to find these places. His job is to show up, act like the garlic mafioso dipshit, and hope the team was right and that he can choke down whatever he's served.

Why is there the assumption road food is his gig? What did he do on that food network show that got him his job, anyway?

xpost Eh, that pretty much goes for every travel food show.

well i don't think anyone is saying that he originated this concept but it is what his appeal is based on, i don't think it's incorrect to say that his restaurant is a betrayal of his appeal.

Is that why he hosts a NBC game show, diner food?

i mean you can do a rockist critique of guy fieri all you want, i think all that post was saying is that we wouldn't all be talking about this if the food in his restaurant was half as good as the stuff that appears on his tv show.

Well, and he wouldn't have had that tv show if he'd been judged on food alone. He had that Johnny Garlic's place since 1996 (according to their site, at least) and they have a pretty standardly obnoxious menu with no road food trappings at all.

I guess that is what I didn't buy about the argument that he's betraying what made him popular or his roots -- he co-owns three or four restaurants already and the Times Square one is about the same.

I mean, I have a friend who has a tenderloin sandwich blog, and has visited something like a hundred places serving tenderloins in his state alone. Fieri doesn't do that

― mh, Monday, November 19, 2012 11:04 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your friend is a martyr, truly

don't know why that blog post has to take a passing swipe at Vandaag (now closed). It was a good place, with a different sort of food than you normally get in NY (which is hard to do). I guess it's more a passing swipe at sifton?

I like to think he's more of a prophet, really, who had to drive a shitload for his job. xp

Was VanDaag Dutch?

a bit dutch, a bit generally scandinavian, a bit generally weird.

my Dutch colleague insists that everything is Dutch

What did he do on that food network show that got him his job, anyway?

not sure if this is a serious question or rhetorical but Next Food Network Star (the competition show he won) is a mix of Top Chef style cooking challenges and on-camera stuff

yeah, pretty rhetorical, but his work in the cooking challenges wasn't at all road food-inspired iirc

I watched the show that year but don't really remember anything about it other than that Guy won

I think I mostly watched another season of it and the show was absolutely horrible

I could not deal with that show, because the most insufferable people were the ones likeliest to last the longest.

I could not deal with that show this earth, because the most insufferable people were the ones likeliest to last the longest.

otm

http://i.imgur.com/yXkc7.gif

hahaha

hey guys it took a long time to finish this thread in between work, have had this tab open for over a week

Years later, found out 90% of the shit on their walls was fake (or just didn't belong to who they said it did).

;_; the one time my parents decided we should go to the then-new, no longer extant Sydney one I thought it was p gross but requested that we sit in the booth under Robert Smith's guitar, don't ruin my precious memories

the garlic mafioso dipshit

nailed

an asshaoli as it were

It's the Guy Fieri menu item generator: http://rvcc2.raritanval.edu/~tmcc3535/guy.html#

White History Month Bread Pudding
Lovingly roasted Bread Pudding with church lady casserole with the soup mix

Obnoxiously Loud TV Personality Chicken
Lovingly frozen Chicken with live octopus

hahaha