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.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― s.clover, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
I like to think he's more of a prophet, really, who had to drive a shitload for his job. xp
― mh, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Was VanDaag Dutch?
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
a bit dutch, a bit generally scandinavian, a bit generally weird.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
my Dutch colleague insists that everything is Dutch
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― dmr, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, pretty rhetorical, but his work in the cooking challenges wasn't at all road food-inspired iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
I watched the show that year but don't really remember anything about it other than that Guy won
― dmr, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
I think I mostly watched another season of it and the show was absolutely horrible
― mh, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
I could not deal with that show, because the most insufferable people were the ones likeliest to last the longest.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
I could not deal with that show this earth, because the most insufferable people were the ones likeliest to last the longest.
― goole, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― mh, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yXkc7.gif
― 乒乓, Friday, 23 November 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 26 November 2012 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
the garlic mafioso dipshit
nailed
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Monday, 26 November 2012 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
an asshaoli as it were
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
It's the Guy Fieri menu item generator: http://rvcc2.raritanval.edu/~tmcc3535/guy.html#
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 December 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
White History Month Bread PuddingLovingly roasted Bread Pudding with church lady casserole with the soup mix
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Monday, 17 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Obnoxiously Loud TV Personality ChickenLovingly frozen Chicken with live octopus
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Monday, 17 December 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
So good I almost can't believe it was randomly generated*:
"White History Month PotatoesSensibly fried potatoes with sweet tears"
*: ... unless I reflect on the three dozen times I pressed the button & got something less good
― you don't know james blunt's "you're beautiful" (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Malibu Donkey-SauceGently roasted Donkey-Sauce with Donkey Sauce
― li'l sebastian, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
yo dawg, I heard you like donkey sauce
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Jeffrey-flavored PotatoesPungently minced Potatoes with whatever looks good around here
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
White History Month Donkey-SauceRougly prepared hot on outside, frozen in center Donkey-Sauce with help me please
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Jeffrey-flavored CheeseburgerGently torched Cheeseburger with ketchup
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Crispy CupcakeDecadently torched Cupcake with live octopus
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
Obnoxiously Loud TV Personality BeefApathetically killed Beef with children's cough syrup
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh dear.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-reviews-of-guy-fieris-new-smore-indoors-pi
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
who would ever buy that, good god
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/1/2/13/enhanced-buzz-31444-1357152006-16.jpg
― jazbay crostata (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
::hurls::
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'm looking at the picture on the box and still wondering why anyone thought, yeah, this could be pretty good
― mh, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
moldy deerpoop pizza
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
Spice on smores is an inherently sick and twisted concept.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Nobody says what kind of spice, so I'm imagining it to be some hot curry powder.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
ohhh no. oh no no no.
― arby's, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Guy Fieri kitchen research squad at work starting at 1:30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78R3BlQVfE
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'd be willing to buy this and eat it and liveblog it on ilx
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
Better you than me
― Tiger Beat On The Potomac (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
liveblog death by eating suppurating roaches and pus
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
the susurrus of the dying roaches as they bake in the oven
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link