Ok here's a really good one--my brother hated fat of any kind-meat had to be trimmed of all traces and bacon had to be about burnt, but he would sit and eat sugar by the spoonful---just the thought makes me shudder!!!

Oh mein Gott in Himmel....

You just described ME!

You me and Rady13 must be from the same family! I got sick eating a whole jar of Flinstones Vitamins too!!!

Sorry, Radyms13. Oops. "Memories, like the corners of my mind". Sorry, got a little cheesy here. It's just fun to remember some of that stuff.

I actually used to like La Choy too, before I had a taste of more "authentic" chow mein. I used to go through and pick out all the crunchety water chestnuts to munch on. And, of course, the crispy noodles were fantastic!

We didn't do the vitamins --- it was Bayers Childrens Aspirin, you know the orange flavored ones, yes the whole bottle. My parents made us drink massive amounts of Alka-Seltzer.

lol

We used to make bread and butter and sugar sandwiches.

My nephews have your brother beat.....ALL three of them will NOT eat any food if it's touching the other on the plate....I mean they will not eat it and my sis has to buy the plates with the separators.

Their father had the same habit whenst young but does not have it now so they never knew that...I still am amazed at that.

I knew someone who would not eat brown food..lol

YES NY gal......Hot and steamy.....Did you ever go to that fair????

Noodles were great. To me the rest was just slimy overcooked vegetables. Once I was persuaded to try it I found out I love Chinese food.

Yea I know people with the touching thing, on the other hand my husband likes to "rile" certain foods---mashed potatoes and peas for example. But I have a sister who would not eat vegetables---I mean not any---peas, beans, corn, carrots much less broccoli, cauliflower etc.
She would make herself throw up or stash them in a napkin, flush them down the toilet whatever got her out of eating them. On the other hand I have another brother that had to consume mass quantities---I mean this kid could eat.

My sister refused to eat anything green. My mom would tell her that green beans tasted like green m&ms, but, she only fell for that one once! To this day if she orders a sandwich and they accidently put a pickle on her plate, she'll send it back. Even if they take it off. Nope, new plate please!

I missed this whole thing earlier, but I didn't take your post any other way either....and as the resident Buddhist here, I don't mind someone praying for me, as I also chant for them. Figure the positive thoughts have to create a better place in this world, no matter where we are directing the call, as it were!

Happy Easter Jane!

And Passover wishes to our Jewish community here on the board.

Me? I'm just happy to have some chocolate LOL!
Jazzie

Not so fast, Jazzie! Don't rush us! We've got until April 19 before we have to ditch the cookies, cakes, pies, breads, pasta, rice, corn, peas, etc. Then it's a week without that yummy stuff—and I hate to tell you what that does to your digestive system.

I Think it's because I loved Faulty Towers so much. I would mortgage the house to have Tom ask him a question and Mauel reply..."Que?"

Oy....so what do I know???? LOL! In that case, grab some more sweet soda bread from the porch and kick back. Didn't mean to leave myself logged on, have to take kidlet to his final rehearsal before their performance tomorrow. Wish our kids luck! (Break a drumstick??? NOT!)
Jazzie

Thanks John for pointing that out. Which them brings me to our oh so wise head judge's drama drenched question to Antonia. How could he ask her who she would of picked with out first asking her if she tasted the friggin food?
Sorry Tom but you look really stupid after this episode, ripping one entire team for not tasting the food and then asking someone a "who should stay question" without finding out if she had tasted the food in the first place.

I've known people who do the "no touching" thing. It makes things difficult, but my Great Grandmother used to say, "Honey, it all ends up in the same place", so that solved that for a lot of the kids.

I knew a guy who wouldn't eat anything he viewed as "mushy". He ate no shrimp. or lobster, or watermelon, or, really, any kind of melon. When he came to dinner it was a freaking nightmare.

What the heck did Antonia make for the zoo challenge? I thought I heard there was lamb in her dish---if so she should have been called on it along with Steph. Sorry with so many chefs it's hard for me to keep track of who did what.

When I was little, it was St. Joseph's Childrens' Aspirin that was the really yummy orange flavored stuff. I used to love those and Dimetapp!!

I've known someone who wouldn't eat anything but white food.

Not read any of the post yet so I may repeat,sorry.


Great episode. How many times did we say this during season 3? Um,none.


Spike,I thought you were a goner. I fell for Bravos clever editing. Bad brillke,bad.

Mark,yay,my Kiwi won a QF. His little trick shot at the pool table was too cute. I hope he goes far,maybe even to the final 3,but its too early to pick yet.


Andrew,I knew you were edited with all that bleeping. I mean,Bravo could have easily used different footage but they knew how a few would react. Ya done good,wtg on your win. Im starting to become a big Andrew fan.


Miguel,what a gentleman. His comments regarding Mark being on his team with immunity just goes to show what a nice guy he must be. Too bad Bravo will never let him stay. Hes got a week or two left before hes booted.

Stephanie,still a big fan.

Valerie,bummer but it was your time.

Antonia,Im not upset you chose Stephanie over Valerie when asked who you would choose to hire. You were put on the spot and no matter who you picked,someone was going to be upset.

Dale,weiner.

Nikki,why on earth did you still serve the judges your mushrooms? Man,I hope you go soon.

Richard,you brought all those tools with you? Did that count toward your $200 budget or were the chefs allowed to bring something other then their knives?

Zoi,Jennifer,Erik,Lisa you all did well but got very little face time.



Was glad to see the zoo get publicity. Zoos always need funds and TC fans will flock there so its a win-win situation.


Was nice seeine Wylie Dufresne as a judge. I see Rick Bayless will be a judge next week. Im always amazed at the quality of judges they are able to get. Well,most times. That douche-bag from the cart challenge in season 1 and restaurant wars in season 2 and the drink-ologist with the shakes in season 2 are the exceptions.TC has scored some serious heavy hitters from the culinary world.


I want my Ted Allen!

Oh you may be right---St Joseph's Aspirin. I remember more the Alka-Seltzer than the yummy orange stuff.

OMG....LOL!!!!!!!

Please don't get me wrong-I wish him all the best-cancer survivor and brave enough to share it. Bravo took advantage of it.

Yeah...you are right.....but we DID hear too much about his ball(s)!

I do not want to see the rabbit who poops turds the size of those shrooms!




Im a big stuffed mushroom fan and they do look kinda poop-ish anyways but the blueberrys sounded like a bad combo to me anyways.

Good point Jay. Youd think they would watch the show to at least get a feel for what they could be in for,wouldnt you?

I almost defended this post but I kept reading. Sigh.



Just gonna comment on all your dreams about Bravo and their reality shows having any sort of objectivity. Its hard,I know,but we all had to accept the fact that the "reality" in these shows are not very real. Many of us came to that conclusion during episode 1 of TC1 2-part season finale.

As for three chefs coming from SF,thats no biggie. Theyve gotten multiple chefs from one city before. Whats more suspect how many cities have yet to have a chef represent them.

So.....

Are you trying to say he was a food racist? <g>

Well, whatever his views were, good or bad, he's gotten his way, because we're still talking about that post the day after.

I'm not saying that's bad, mind you, but I had given up on trying to understand him when he dropped his last little homophobic stink bomb last night. There's just no way to understand someone who defies reason.

Not racist just weird. Think about it-all white, bland food.

Watching and doing are two very different things. You can see something, know it's wrong, and still do it with conviction; when they actually should be convicted for crimes against food.

I was joking, and, obviously, not doing a very good job of it. My thing is word play. I just like the ways you can twist words and meanings. I think it's fun.

Ok I'm watching the rerun and Antonia did make a dish with lamb for Gorilla team. So it was Steph and Antonia that didn't follow the brief. I do think the team should have been called on it---maybe they were and we didn't get to see it.

Ive been to Little Rock. Someone tried to serve me roadkill in Little Rock. Please Lord,dont let there be a Top Chef Little Rock.

I love word play--double meanings. Warped humor is delightful. I just find peoples food preferences amazing.

And all white food is truly odd. Remember when Bourdain ripped into Mike for producing an all beige plate of potatoes for Thanksgiving on season two.?That's just a little darker than white.

One of my favorite TC moments. Bourdain---It's like Betty Crocker and Charles Manson had a love child and he's cooking for me. What kind of crack house are you running here?

Maybe Bravo had Zoi and Jennifer on as a couple because it was something they hadnt had on before. Like faux-hawks and gastro whatevers before them,they are a novelty. Well we see how the novelty of faux-hawks and gastro whatevers faded,eh? OMG,its gonna be lesbians everywhere after this!



I can believe Bravo chose both chefs based on skill and once they were found to be a couple,it was thumbs up all around the production meeting during chef selections.


BTW,very funny post Simon. Oh,and I hope I didnt offend anyone when I used Zoi and Jennifer with the combination of novelty. Im not trying to imply that is what their relationship is at all

Theres always Monday through Wednesday to catch up.



I love March Madness!

Maybe just a Vanilla Supremacist.

...with the exception of biscuits and cream gravy....or fried potatoes completely covered in cream gravy....or vanilla ice cream.

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I disagree. The chefs should be picked for their skills,nothing else.


Is there a checklist?


2 Lesbians-check

1 Hottie-check

1 Asian-check

etc...


To have a chef on the show only because a slot for anything other then skill is open doesnt even begin to make sense. Of course this is a reality show so there is a formula but a Hottie with no skills will be gone soon,unless the conspiracy theories are true.

Hee hee,that is funny. I dont if it is sophomoric,laugh dagnabit!

I used to sit and eat brown sugar by the spoonful. I sprinkled it on ice cream too. Then again, I also used to spoon out tang into milk, and drink milk and pepsi out the wazoo. Toast and/or Wonder bread (it's a wonder they call it bread) was my favorite food palette when I was a kid--slathered it with butter and sugar, added cinnamon, broiled it with brown sugar when I wanted "sweet," or cheese when I wanted "savory"--when I was sick, only buttered toast drenched in hot milk would do, and then there was the ever popular "banana sandwich," consisting of bread slathered in mayo, topped with banana slices and sprinkled with walnuts and brown sugar--I even sometimes sprinkled bacon on it.

There was also the "go-to" toasted peanut butter and bacon sandwich, as well as fried bologna. Good grief, looking back, I can't believe I actually thrived on some of that stuff!

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It's all good, That is, except for you calling my brothers and sisters at this board fools. That is not good, and the almighty might have a problem with that one, so, good luck with that.

Aw,ty Bear. I have to admit though,I am a fool. I like expensive hangbags and I pay retail. I should be captain of the fool team dont ya think?

LOL,wtg Bear. I will never get quoted(oh,stop pretending you dont look to see if youve been quoted,you know you do)cause I think I lost my funny somewhere around the end of TC2. If anyone ever has the time,go back and read some of the older TC and PR boards. There is some seriously funny stuff there.


OK,Im sorry for going OT,specially since we have an OT thread now.

OK after watching TC again tonight
(watching Bridget Jones Diary.....ooow I love Colin Firth and Hugh Grant)

I think Mark will win or at least be in the top three..He seems to have very unique 'flavor profiles' and he seems to really be sensitive to food in a really nice way and confident...But mostly he made Marmite taste good and that in itself is a miracle.......Plus he is one sexy down undie.... I'm wagering my Danish lace table cloth and demitasse set!!

ROTFL!!

I agree. In a perfect world, contestants should be chosen for their perceived ability to cook, and for nothing more. It should have nothing to do with where they live, the color of their skin, what belief system they subscribe to, their sexual orientation, their age, sex or socioeconomic status, or any other conventional "label" we try to slap on to make us feel better about our choices.