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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:40 am 
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Anyone ever watch these?

The gingerbread mansion competition was good, though I still like the sugar sculptures more.

I have to sit through the entire hour if I start watching. I'm addicted.

Also, the host looks and sounds exactly like a bald version of a guy I was with and it's freaking me out.

Pizza olympics at 2 AM is a favorite of mine as well.

Yes, I'm a little bored.
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I saw the birthday cake episode. Pretty cool stuff.

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I like watching the pastry competitions. I cried once when a sugar sculpture broke between the kitchen and the table.

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I found myself talking to the television...

"You've got sugar landscaping to finish and there's only eight minutes left! Hurry!"

Or something.

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I wish they had more than the various cakes. I haven't seen the Gingerbread one and the pizza one was a little underwhelming. I'd like to see a best steak contest.

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SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
I found myself talking to the television...

"You've got sugar landscaping to finish and there's only eight minutes left! Hurry!"

Or something.


this is kind of what i meant. humans must kill tv.

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cmanhatan4 Wrote:
SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
I found myself talking to the television...

"You've got sugar landscaping to finish and there's only eight minutes left! Hurry!"

Or something.


this is kind of what i meant. humans must kill tv.


What am I supposed to do, read?
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SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
cmanhatan4 Wrote:
SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
I found myself talking to the television...

"You've got sugar landscaping to finish and there's only eight minutes left! Hurry!"

Or something.


this is kind of what i meant. humans must kill tv.


What am I supposed to do, read?


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That actually is how I learned to stop picking my nose.

God bless Ralph.

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SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
That actually is how I learned to stop picking my nose.


See I just figured out that it was rather gauche, and I subsequently stopped.

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You are so smrt.

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You are so smrt.


Nah, just socially conscious.

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I don't get how this is a low point in humanity. Those challenges highlight some immensely talented people. Some of those birthday cakes were amazingly well crafted and artistic. I would think one who likes to discuss the merits of soda could find cooking competitions at least a little worthwhile.

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I don't watch this, but am addicted to Next Food Network Star, Top Chef and Iron Chef.

For some reason it is just the right amount of mindlessness I so need on the weekends.

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I watch Top Chef. I've never seen the Food Network challenges.

I'm rather disappointed in how Top Chef is working out though... again, very talented people (with the exception of that asshole Stephen), but the show kinda plods along, without the excitement and frenetic pace that was Project Runway.
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I watch Top Chef. I've never seen the Food Network challenges.

I'm rather disappointed in how Top Chef is working out though... again, very talented people (with the exception of that asshole Stephen), but the show kinda plods along, without the excitement and frenetic pace that was Project Runway.


Is Stephen the sommelier guy? I cannot stand to look at him and his oversized Windsor KNot and his bedhead...blech...The best one on there is the real understated dude that is a head chef for some hotel.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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We had one of the judges(Mike McCarey of Mike's Amazing Cakes in Redmond, WA) from the cake challenge episode do wedding cakes last year - here are a couple of photos for those who may be interested:

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A little context about the monkey cake, it is a groom's cake - most of our close friends who were at the wedding know that we collect stuffed monkeys(the toy kind) - the cake was a recreation of one of the little guys and was made with Banana Nut cake with Kahlua frosting....so not only did it look really cool it tasted great as well :)[/img]

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Senator NMI LooGAR Wrote:
Is Stephen the sommelier guy? I cannot stand to look at him and his oversized Windsor KNot and his bedhead...blech...The best one on there is the real understated dude that is a head chef for some hotel.


Yep - same guy Loog - he talks down to EVERYBODY on the show.....

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Thank you, lovely people, for breathing new (and the right) life into my thread.

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Senator NMI LooGAR Wrote:

Is Stephen the sommelier guy? I cannot stand to look at him and his oversized Windsor KNot and his bedhead...blech...The best one on there is the real understated dude that is a head chef for some hotel.


The asian chick needs to let her eyebrows grow out a little bit. They are so thin that they distract me.

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Chrome_CW Wrote:
Senator NMI LooGAR Wrote:
Is Stephen the sommelier guy? I cannot stand to look at him and his oversized Windsor KNot and his bedhead...blech...The best one on there is the real understated dude that is a head chef for some hotel.


Yep - same guy Loog - he talks down to EVERYBODY on the show.....


Yep, that's him. He looks like he has a stick up his ass most of the time. And he never wears chef's whites; he's always got that damn suit on.

Maybe the understated guy is Harold? He is quite good. I like LeeAnne too.
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dnorwood Wrote:
Chrome_CW Wrote:
Senator NMI LooGAR Wrote:
Is Stephen the sommelier guy? I cannot stand to look at him and his oversized Windsor KNot and his bedhead...blech...The best one on there is the real understated dude that is a head chef for some hotel.


Yep - same guy Loog - he talks down to EVERYBODY on the show.....


Yep, that's him. He looks like he has a stick up his ass most of the time. And he never wears chef's whites; he's always got that damn suit on.

Maybe the understated guy is Harold? He is quite good. I like LeeAnne too.


Harold, yeah. Leeanne Plays like she nice, but she's a bitch, I think. -- and Yail -- i hear ya on them eyebrows.

Chrome -- COOL FUCKING MONKEY CAKE!!

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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