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i hated this show.
among the finalists, they kicked out his girl cuz she refused to say
she's the best.

she was supposed to say she's the best cuz the judges simply wanted to
hear it. you have to sheepishly go along with judges' wishes to assert
your confidence. talk about hypocritical contradiction.

It's just like any other job interview.

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i wonder if that chinese dude would ever say he's better than yan can
cook guy.

the show was crass, american idol of cooking. shame on PBS. it was all
yuppie power trip.

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i hated this show.
among the finalists, they kicked out his girl cuz she refused to say
she's the best.

she was supposed to say she's the best cuz the judges simply wanted to
hear it. you have to sheepishly go along with judges' wishes to assert
your confidence. talk about hypocritical contradiction.

It's just like any other job interview.

Sad, but true...
If you want the job, you have to be all enthusiastic and tell them
exactly what they want to hear.

It's sickening sometimes in it's unreality......
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"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Quoted message said:

i hated this show.
among the finalists, they kicked out his girl cuz she refused to say
she's the best.

she was supposed to say she's the best cuz the judges simply wanted to
hear it. you have to sheepishly go along with judges' wishes to assert
your confidence. talk about hypocritical contradiction.

It's just like any other job interview.

Sad, but true...
If you want the job, you have to be all enthusiastic and tell them
exactly what they want to hear.

It's sickening sometimes in it's unreality......

Yep. Her response was actually correct. There's no true best. Each one of
them could be viewed as better than the other by different
interviewers/chefs. Todd wants the best, eh? Well, it's up to him to
decide what's best for him, but that doesn't mean it's best for the others.

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Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack
Nicholson

what i hated was the dishonesty. todd didn't want that girl cuz she
didn't have the iron personality to be chef. okay, fine. that's valid.
but, to find some bogus excuse to boot her out. that's [censored].
the way i see it, she showed courage when she said she wasn't
necessarily the best. actually, she was standing her ground more than
the other two who simply said what they were SUPPOSED to say.

also, since when does a chef have to be a megalomaniacal and arrogant
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suppose one of the finalists asked todd if he's better than the chinese
guy or vice versa. would they put eachother down?

and what about the third guy? the author. yeah, like he knows alot
about food.

well, i'm glad todd ended up with that pig redneck hag cuz they deserve
eachother.

alejandro de tacobell said:

and what about the third guy? the author. yeah, like he knows alot
about food.

Michael Ruhlman. He went to the Culinary Institue of America and wrote
about it. While taking the classes.

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"Foutain of youth? We have enough youth, what we need is a fountain of smart..." -seen on a bumper sticker

Couldn't agree more.

I only caught part of a few episodes of Cooking Under Fire while
channel-surfing. I found Todd english to be an insufferable and
overweening bore and most of the contestants to be yammering
sycophants.

I don't think I managed more than 3 minutes of the monumentally idiotic
Hell's Kitchen - where borderline psychotic/chef Gordon Ramsey could
probably do better with 500 mg. daily of clozapine than organic
flat-leaf Italian parsley or an African Cast Iron Potjie.

Don't get me wrong, I've loved cooking since I was eight years old (I'm
waaaayyyy past that) but I have grown weary of the quasi-rock-star
status that cooks have attained on television. Give me Julie, and
Jacque anyday.

Cheers,

Steve