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

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

So good I almost can't believe it was randomly generated*:

"White History Month Potatoes
Sensibly fried potatoes with sweet tears"

*: ... unless I reflect on the three dozen times I pressed the button & got something less good

Malibu Donkey-Sauce
Gently roasted Donkey-Sauce with Donkey Sauce

yo dawg, I heard you like donkey sauce

lol

Jeffrey-flavored Potatoes
Pungently minced Potatoes with whatever looks good around here

White History Month Donkey-Sauce
Rougly prepared hot on outside, frozen in center Donkey-Sauce with help me please

Jeffrey-flavored Cheeseburger
Gently torched Cheeseburger with ketchup

Crispy Cupcake
Decadently torched Cupcake with live octopus

Obnoxiously Loud TV Personality Beef
Apathetically killed Beef with children's cough syrup

Oh dear.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-reviews-of-guy-fieris-new-smore-indoors-pi

who would ever buy that, good god

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/1/2/13/enhanced-buzz-31444-1357152006-16.jpg

looks like a necrorune made of elder flesh and incised with the Blade of Immortals

It looks like it is made up of pus and decaying roaches.

Why is it spicy? I mean, I'm all about chocolate and chili but this isn't like a flourless Mexican chocolate and ancho chili torte. It's a fucking marshmallow and chocolate chip pizza.

::hurls::

I'm looking at the picture on the box and still wondering why anyone thought, yeah, this could be pretty good

Also the box doesn't say it's spicy, and I think that Guy Fieri has a duty to warn potential buyers. Therefore, I will represent smorelover, veryupsetmom, Noellesmommy, and clubmember59 in a class action lawsuit for culinary negligence.

moldy deerpoop pizza

Spice on smores is an inherently sick and twisted concept.