Episode 8: "Common Threads" Options

[Kristlkrost]

Oh no! I was looking forward to your review.

Give the guy some Nyquil and GO Jim!!!!!!!

[partsgirl]

ARGH!!!!!!!!!

Dan's boyfriend is sick. We're not hitting Nikki's restaurant tonight.

Hugs for you, sweety!
Correct me if I'm wrong... was this the second time you tried to get to Nikki's restaurant and twice skunked? The reason I ask is that my hubby and I have a little rule we use about set backs. If you are en route someplace and are twice stopped by outside circumstances, chances are someone is trying to tell you to not go... It's rather pessimistic but it has its superstitious value. Besides... we love you more. Have some mac-n-cheese!

[partsgirl]

HARD TO GET PAST

WITHOUT WONDERING ...................................

HOW SHE DO THAT ?????????

WHAT MUSCLE CONTROL

THANKS PG

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

[b] It's so bad.
Thank heavens she's not a guest judge on DWTS.
I just want to put my hands on her shoulders and make her stop.
You're welcome, Poppa. [/b]

[SecondTry]

Hugs for you, sweety!
Correct me if I'm wrong... was this the second time you tried to get to Nikki's restaurant and twice skunked? The reason I ask is that my hubby and I have a little rule we use about set backs. If you are en route someplace and are twice stopped by outside circumstances, chances are someone is trying to tell you to not go... It's rather pessimistic but it has its superstitious value. Besides... we love you more. Have some mac-n-cheese!

Yes, it is.......the first time was because of the fargin' pope.....

[actor59]

Yes, it is.......the first time was because of the fargin' pope.....

Psssst... the new board is up yup....

[partsgirl]

Yes, it is.......the first time was because of the fargin' pope.....

I'm sorry, Person-Formerly-Known-As-Jim. I really am. I do hope you get to go soon. I want a review of the place, too.

[partsgirl]

Psssst... the new board is up yup....

Thanks, Actor. Soon as I finish packing I'll be right there!
Aluminum Foil... check!
Horse whip... check!

[Bed & Breakfast]

That's why Steph's peanut butter choice seemed like a no-brainer. The thing is, I'm not sure I've ever had a dish that paired a peanut sauce with tomatoes (unless they were maybe just a few small dices or something). That's just not a natural pairing and something that most good cooks wouldn't try to force. Of course, I had never paired jelly with cheese on a crusty roll until I lived in Germany and my fiancee introduced me to it. Now I'm a big fan. So, I'm now officially intrigued to see if peanut sauce and tomatoes can work, although I'm skeptical.

As to the Uncle Ben makeover, no I didn't know that they had done that. How perfectly cynical! Still doesn't change my mind about the branding. next thing you know, they'll be sending Uncle Remus to Harvard and redubbing his voice with James Earl Jones'.

Actually, they just made Uncle Remus disappear. While Disney is on a re-release schedule of about every 7 years on most of their films, "Song of the South" hasn't been seen since about 1986 or 1988. (a friend of mine was the Master of Ceremony at the re-release "premier".) It also has not been made available on VHS or DVD in this country, though some copies are available from Japan.

[metz]

Discuss the episode.

Cooking for families ...everyday stuff with a chef's twist ...useful ... now bring on the crockpot challenge for them

[teleburst]

Uh anyone would rationalize that way if they had been mislead.
Where did I say Mark's was the worst. The children liked Stephanies appples.

There ya go. They liked NOTHING about Mark's.

Uh hello the challange was to make a meal for a family of four for $10 bucks not a family of four plus production plates and judges samples. Thats the stated challenge and its obvious that it's impossible. Once again the show is deliberately misleading the viewer.

Frankly, if you "misled", knowing that they had to shop for at least 8, then you really aren't thinking. It's as if you expect a family of four to only shop for the items for a single meal anyway. If I make my budget of $10 for a family of four, I can feed 100 families at once and meet the challenge as stated.

I'll have to do some reasearch on that. But Mark wins simply on fresh vs. canned.

Not really. It's like he served celery.

Say the guy who habitutally responds to me. LMAO

OK, "the guy who habitually responds to me. LMAO".

What else would you like me to say?

[WhataJoke]

There ya go. They liked NOTHING about Mark's.

Wow shocking! Apples and granola beat vegetable curry in a taste test with American Children! Film at 11! It still doesn't mean that her peanut butter crap wasn't the worst dish created. Oh and Padma said Marks dish had Peanuts in it. Mark offically screwed.

Frankly, if you "misled", knowing that they had to shop for at least 8, then you really aren't thinking. It's as if you expect a family of four to only shop for the items for a single meal anyway. If I make my budget of $10 for a family of four, I can feed 100 families at once and meet the challenge as stated.

Sorry if I am so gullible as to believe a challange that has a rule stating you need to feed a family of 4 with $10 from whole foods actually has to follow said rule. Silly me. Bottom line is that most dishes couldn't be made with the stated rules.

We had strict rules during the 5 item quickfire in regards to pantry usage that disqualified Andrew but not here. Pretty stupid unless your trying to slant things to make a sponsor look good which they obviously were.

Not really. It's like he served celery.

Celery is good with Peanut butter sounds like what Stephanie needed.

What else would you like me to say?

You want a script? I could ask the producers to help you out?

[ITSJUSTMEAOD]

I apologize for trying to post from memory which is not what it used to be, if it ever was. So I went and dug out of storage a tape I made of the lychee episode two seasons ago.

First, Elia, Marissa, Marcel and Otto were part of a team - Team Korea.
During the shopping Otto had a store employee put the case of lychees on the bottom of Elia's shopping cart. When the team is at the checkout register, Elia and Marissa are unloading the cart so the cashier can tally up the groceries. In the background, Marcel has a second cart and Otto is taking up the rear - it appears that he has no cart. Marcel is the one with the money and he steps forward to pay for the team's groceries. In the next scene Otto is seen pushing Elia's cart of bagged groceries (with the lychee's still on the bottom of the cart) out of the store. Just before he closes the door to the SUV he mentions the lychees being free. As the SUV leaves the store Marissa's voice is heard moralizing over the lychees.

The part that I mentioned about Marissa wanting to return the lychee's and production stopping her was from another forum when lycheegate was a hot topic.

MAN JOHN YOU ARE HARD CORE

I GOTTA HAND IT TO YA .... YOU DID THE RESEARCH

BUT YOU KNOW ....... NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU DEBATE THE ISSUE

BOTTOM LINE IS.....................YOU TOOK OUT A TAPE

WHICH WAS MADE FROM A BROADCAST.......

A BROADCAST...............................

TAKEN WITH A CAMERA...............

THAT WAS HELD BY A CAMERAMAN

SO REALLY NOW

NO MATTER WHO WE MAY HAVE PERCIEVED TO BE

THE GUILTY PARTY.......................

AS I SAID..........

THE CAMERAMAN KNEW ALL THE TIME

PROB TOOK A SLIDER UNDER THE TABLE TO KEEP

HIS SILENCE

But again, I still can't figure how Otto took the rap for the lychee's when he was at the rear of the line at the cash register and why didn't either Elia and Marissa place the lychee's on the checkout counter since it was those two who were unloading the cart? Secondly, since it was Marcel who had the money and paid the cashier, obviously he didn't itemize the receipt because if he had I would have hoped that he would have noted the lychees were not listed.

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

KATHY GRIFFITH HAD A SEX TAPE OF

HIM AND HER????????????



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

[ITSJUSTMEAOD]

YIPE . . .what tripe !!!

Y'mean that over age doughboy with a blowtorch in one fist and an egg beater to comb his hair in the other? Even when my hormones were pumping iron forty years ago I'd be running away in the opposite direction . . .

. . . grumble, grumble, grumble

COW'S STOMACH..........................

FUNNY STUFF SUP

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

[ITSJUSTMEAOD]

[b] It's so bad.
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SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT MOMMA LIKE THAT SPUD



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Thank heavens she's not a guest judge on DWTS.

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JUDGE OR PARTICIPANT? PG

WOULD BE PRETTY INTERESTIN

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I just want to put my hands on her shoulders and make her stop.
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UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

IF YOU GET TOO CLOSE

YOU MIGHT CATCH SUMTHIN THOUGH

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You're welcome, Poppa. [/color][/size]

STILL WONDERIN ....................

HOW SHE DO THAT

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

[jteach156]

Kinda risque stuff here for a cooking with kids episode. In addition to Andrew's excited condition, Spike comes up with Pasta Puttanesca. 'Ya think he translated for da' lil' chefs?

So, other thoughts:

I'm really worried for Steph--this was her worst week yet.

I'm glad you're teaching your daughter to cook, Antonia. Are you teaching her to stab her teammates in the back and ignore the rules of whatever game she plays, too?

That Richard Blais wants to make little Blaises is all the proof that I need that the universe hates me.

I totally related to both Nikki and Dale on this challenge. I was the runt of the litter, too, growing up, and I hated it as much as Dale apparently did. As for Nikki, her history really spoke to me. My mother practically raised my sister and me by myself until I was 8, and then there was no "practically" about it until I was 13 and she married my stepfather. One of the reasons I started learning how to cook was because I had to--my mother started graduate school when I was about 11.

I. Am. Sick. Of. Lisa. I am sick of her attitude, her unimaginative food, her cigarettes, her nose ring, her babushka, her scowl, and I am just sick of her.

Bye, Mark. Hope I run into you sometime in New York; I'd love to deconstruct that duck of yours and see if we can make something amazing out of it.

Andrew with a boner of any kind is almost enough to turn me straight.

As much as I hate to admit it, Spike was really good working with his junior partner.

[ITSJUSTMEAOD]

HOPE YA ALL WISHED YOU'RE MOMMA'S

A HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

AND FOR THE ONES HERE

HOPE YO ALL HAD A GOOD ONE

HAPPY BELATED MOTHER'S DAY LADIES

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

[outerspaceboy]

I THINK IT IS UNFAIR THAT ANTONIA, THE WINNER OF THIS CHALLENGE, DID NOT GET A PRIZE FOR WINNING. SHE DESERVES TO GET A PRIZE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER CHEF DID DURING THEIR WINNING ROUND. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS BRAVOTV!!!!!

[JayCiuM]

I THINK IT IS UNFAIR THAT ANTONIA, THE WINNER OF THIS CHALLENGE, DID NOT GET A PRIZE FOR WINNING. SHE DESERVES TO GET A PRIZE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER CHEF DID DURING THEIR WINNING ROUND. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS BRAVOTV!!!!!

They already are thinking of enhancing the prices! The trips are getting more elaborate and with Richard taking home a car without winning the whole thing is huge! Looks like they really started last year with the trip to Italy for the frozen food challenge which CJ and and Tre won I do believe! Casey won an Apple computer for another challenge! It's so lame when they give a cookbook, knives or some other smaller award, then come back with larger prizes like the Italian trip which Lisa got for making bacon! There was no justice in that! I still see Dale's face when that happened! lol!!