It seems that the one thing that T.V is trying to push down our throats is food and when their not telling us what to eat it's how we should make the food. Weather it's to make it more crunchy or add more dry goose it seems the food critics of the world are never happy. In fact no matter what channel you look at their will be some sort of gluttony based stuffing where they have to impress people with their cooking skills either to guests, under a time limit, to critics, for the Prime Minster, under a hammer, through a key hole and even inside the animal they are severing. It's just becoming over top sneering where people who think they know how food should be look down at people going, "oh it lacks that such and such of flavour" It's food eat it if it's nice you think McDonalds is selling millions because it's bursting with flavour? I actually heard someone say on Master Chef (BBC1) about one of the contestants "he's cooked for famous people" as this means he therefore know how to cook better than anyone else? Famous people still eat food like the rest of use they haven't got higher taste pallets. I don't see Jordon rolling into the Fat Duck and asking for a course of Creme De Mon, do you? It's only when you look at John Torode and Gregg Wallace that you feel like your being ruled by evil over lords as they cast the loser into the fiery pits of hell. I bet these two would complain about beans on toast because the beans weren't red enough.
But with all shows there is one that just goes so far over the top it is now back at the bottom. Iron Chef (C4) is beyond cooking and now in the realms of epic cooking war. Starting in Japan and then moving to the USA it soon took over the top T.V to Narnia with AHHHH's and COOKING!!! Then landed it's way onto U.K T.V, hosted by what can only be described as a seal on crack, Olly Smith. Whom if was to consume cocaine would explode if he saw an onion as it would be way to much excitement for his food hungry little eyes.The show battles teams against "iron chefs" who are like warriors in the field of cooking. But each episode their is crazy Japanese man who stands on a plinth shouting commands at the cooks mainly the main ingredient today will be...ONIONS and it's done in an x factor shock kind of way panning left, then right, then close-up then back to the Japanese man's eye and then the onions and now Olly's perverted veggie fetish. It takes cooking drama to a whole new level that even if Jesus was to turn up and turn the water into wine he'd still lose to the Iron Chef who made a Duck shot lasers out his ass!
Another common food program a la trend is the voting system and one of the most popular of all these shows in Come Dine With Me (C4) where a group of people cook meals for each other over a week (5 days, not a full week, a working week, shut up you get it) and each host for the evening invites this group of madly critical strangers into their home. They cook them 3 courses and after the night of high drinking and snobbery they vote while being driven home by a mystery taxi driver, who I'm going to call Vlad. While Vlad is driving them home they vote out of ten what they thought of they meal with whatever sober thoughts they can muster and the winner by the end of the week wins £1000 and 4 new friends. The guests range from absolute knobs to confused badgers looking for glimmers of hope in an otherwise ruined society but always hungry. Some weeks you'll see the uncomfortable i fancy them and they think I'm a troll or the other common theme which is i hate them and they hate me which courses most of the shows point. the cooking itself is about 10% of it and the main draw of the show is the people the drag off the bus to sit and eat. A kind of Master Chef Big Brother. But the shows main attraction is the dry humored voice over Dave Lamb who make's more fun of the guest than they do of themselves. Therefore making the program bearable and then being the star. Except for Vlad who should have a spin of show, Come Taxi With Me where he gets previous Come Dine With Me losers to drive him about for a change while he rates their driving out of ten, Including a Le mans style race, circus stunt driving course and driving while on fire. "Oh a bit raw, i give it a 6"
When on a day to day basis i rant and rave at the world and most people tell me to shut up or just pay for the drink and go away I've decided to use this web thingy to sprawl my hate and what i call logic
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