Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[Martin]

That is true, Mark. But looking beyond the pots and pans, he actually makes decent cookbooks - his book on Italian cuisine is very good indeed.

[Andy]

Bourdain tries too hard.

I fucking hate my job today.

[Pidgeon]

"pooh-poohed"

[kiemzi]

i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.

*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.

[ChrisRawk]

The track listing for this new Robin Williams DVD:

1) What's Up DC?!? Chicago/Rio Olympics
2) Fires Weed and the Weather
3) Hybrids and Animals
4) Healthcare and Heart Surgery
5) Bush, Cheney, and the Obamas
6) Sarah Palin, the Clintons, and Jack
7) Arnold, the Economy and Alternative Fuels
8 ) Technology
9) Summer Olympics and Athletics, The
10) Drugs, Alcoholism and More Drugs.
11) Religion and Marriage
12) Intelligent Design
13) Porn
14) A Touching Tribute

I saw clips of his new special.  The track listing seems to be the best part about the new special.

[ChrisRawk]

i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.

*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.

'Kitchen Confidential' is a solid read, especially if you've ever been in the food industry.

Zimmerman kind of annoys me too.  It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it.  And it's always gross stuff that he eats.   

[Reeleyes]

i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.

*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.

'Kitchen Confidential' is a solid read, especially if you've ever been in the food industry.

Zimmerman kind of annoys me too.  It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it.  And it's always gross stuff that he eats.   

A chef friend of mine met Bourdain in Portland recently and said that he really wanted to hate him but Bourdain was totally cool to him.

[Mark in Helsinki]

i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.

*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.

'Kitchen Confidential' is a solid read, especially if you've ever been in the food industry.

Zimmerman kind of annoys me too.  It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it.  And it's always gross stuff that he eats.   

A chef friend of mine met Bourdain in Portland recently and said that he really wanted to hate him but Bourdain was totally cool to him.

I'm sure all of them are nice in person (except maybe for said Lispy Brit), you don't get that far in any business by being a total douche. Except for Mickey Dolenz, Gene Simmons, that meanie Brit chef Gordon Ramsey, Phil Spector, OJ Simpson... OK.

Never mind.

[Bryan]

I'm sure all of them are nice in person (except maybe for said Lispy Brit)

I would be truly disappointed to learn that Jamie Oliver is a creep. There aren't very many celebrities that I feel that way about.

But admittedly, some of his merchandising efforts are pretty shitty. The Flavor Shaker?! C'mon, Jamie...

[Mark in Helsinki]

Yeah, The Flavo(u)r Shaker is the one I was trying to remember!!

What, is he the next Ron Popeil or a chef?

It's just that I think we have been seeing Jamie for a longer period here in Europe, at first I thought he was refreshing, "yeah? And then he was a bit, like over the top, yeah? And now it is just way-hey too easy-peasy to hate the li'l git."

PS, sorry if I am partially responsible keeping the hate focused on celebrity chefs, especially at a time when there is so much to hate all around us.

[Andy]

I would say that you don't get that far in business withOUT being a total douche.

And I like Gordon Ramsay, but mostly because I refuse to watch any of his shows that don't appear on BBC.

Plus, he made me these:

[dave from knoxville]

That girl looks so lifelike. What did he make her out of?

[erika]

Clearly, Andy has married a human-sized piece of marzipan.

We wanted to eat at Ramsay's restaurant in the Heathrow airport but we landed too late and Heathrow is like the gates of hell so we had to just get on to our connecting flight.

[Mark in Helsinki]

Clearly, Andy has married a human-sized piece of marzipan.

We wanted to eat at Ramsay's restaurant in the Heathrow airport but we landed too late and Heathrow is like the gates of hell so we had to just get on to our connecting flight.

The Ramsay Experience at Heathrow?? (I had no idea such a thing existed). You must've had residual munchies!

[Steve of Bloomington]

There are successful people who aren't douches; however I've run into them outside of doing what they do for money, where for all I know they're total douches.