Top 10 Songs Using Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors
How in the hell does "Pour Some Sugar On Me" not make that list, and M.C. Friggin' Lyte does?
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I dunno. If I found out that Food Network lied to me about their intentions, only to have some blowhard waltz in and challenge me to an impromptu cookfight stacked in his favor, I'd be pretty irritated too.
Tyler Florence Ultimate Potato Salad
So in other words, you don't like barbecued fried food...so you ordered barbecued fried food, and then wonder why you didn't like it?
I'm not defending Applebee's by any stretch, but that's just idiotic.
Domestic goddess Martha Stewart banned from the UK! Is it FAIR?
If it means she stays there and doesn't come back here? By all means, let her in. :)
What is Pho?
Take liquid soul from Heaven itself, add rice noodles and raw flank steak strips (which cook in the aforementioned soul), and put it in a bowl.
My favorite way to eat an egg is ____
I strongly dislike any preparation of egg that does not first involve the vigorous mixing of the yolk and the white. I'll put up with it in the case of a fast-food breakfast sandwich or something, but I won't like it.
Fondue Night!
A map to the door. I wouldn't want to party with someone who didn't like fondue. :)
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Top 10 Songs Using Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors
and probably the best song not listed, "Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones.
Ah, brown sugar. How come you taste so good?
brown sugar, just like a black girl should...
Top 10 Songs Using Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors
Wait, I can't BELIEVE no one mentioned Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)! Hahahaha
Gravy
On my mashed potatoes, give me
Gravy
Come and treat me right
Gravy
You
Give me, give me
Give me, give me gravy tonight
My friend and I went on a random find-food-song-lyrics hunt one day. The rest weren't so sexual, but "Cheeseburger" from veggie tales is a beautiful ode to said food item ;P
Top 10 Songs Using Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors
How about Cornbread by the Dave Matthews Band
"You ain't ever had my cornbread, it's a little bit of heaven and a little bit of aw yeah. Open up and jump right in."
Top 10 Songs Using Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors
...or I'm just thinking of the images from the video.
I'm too scared to get a virus by going on a lyrics website to check. :P
Top 10 Songs Using Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors
How did Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" not get a mention? I think it was a popular song...
Doughnut Plant Throwdown
Personally I think that Mark Israel came out looking like the Douche I think he really is in real life. What a winer! Did this guy not brag about working in the basement of his home for something like 5 years? This publicity would have been priceless and most take it as a compliment. Instead he whined like a 6 year old girl who had her doll taken away. Its not like this guy is a chef. He makes donuts. Single dimension. And who the hell picked the cops? No way I would have chosen his. I suspect they rigged it just to keep it going and salvage the taping. I was personally most disgusted by the comments to Bobbies donut from his and the handshake with the filling. That just shows what a classless douche he is. He can say whatever he wants about the conditions etc, but he is responsible for his behavior. I hope people start avoiding his shop since he is such a graceless fool. I am certain every chef in NYC will certainly avoid his shop. My 2c.
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I think Isreal has a major chip on his shoulder and I don't know when it landed there. He was featured years ago on a Food TV show, (Emeril I think), where the cameras came into his bakery and basically put his small operation on the map. He was happy as a clam on that feature. Perhaps "we're" taking ourselves a bit too seriously these days, Mark. Lighten up. You turned a golden opportunity for positive exposure into a petulant, arrogant performance. You could make the best doughnuts in the world, but I wouldn't choose to eat one. All those dry, bitter crumbs would stick in my throat.
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Oh boy...I just read his website and the response that he "waited two years" to make. He still seems to be miffed about how the competition was set up -- the fryer wasn't working, etc. -- after two years. Is it just me, or is it odd that after all this time he's still commenting about the things that weren't in his favor, when he ended up the winner? What, he wanted to win bigger?
And if this is his way of explaining why he was cranky on the show, he needs some new PR advice. He still seems cranky.
If he was less than gracious on TV, that's pretty forgivable, because not everyone is good at handling surprises. It doesn't make him a bad guy if he didn't handle it as well as someone else. But this is a response he waited two years to make, and one would suppose he thought about it for a while. Come on, it's doughnuts, not the cure for cancer.
I would have liked the guy a lot more if he simply would have said, "I don't like surprises," or "I'm not good at shifting gears once I've made plans," or even, "The fryer was broken and I was upset about that before I even knew about the contest." But really, after all this time, and considering that he won, telling us about the "circumstances under which I competed" seems just a bit whiny. Not that he cares if I like him or not.
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Seems to me that most of the judging on Throwdown is skewed against Bobby Flay. Quite often one of the criteria is the authenticity of the dish, and Flay's thing is that he takes the dish and adds his own touches to it. So while his may be tasty, it's no longer authentic, and he loses points right off the bat. Which is fine with him.
Flay doesn't need the publicity -- the point of the show seems to be to highlight a relatively unknown cook who specializes in some dish, and this is the way it's done -- by having the cook compete against Flay and probably win the contest. Or, if they lose, losing against a name-brand chef like Flay isn't a huge loss. After all, he's a winning Iron Chef.
As far as Mark Isreal, he was caught off-guard and his response wasn't as gracious as most of the "contestants" on the show. Personally, I think he missed an opportunity to showcase himself and his product in the best light, but it's not the worst thing in the world. People who know him and like him will continue to see the situation from his side, and people who think he's a jerk will probably not be deterred from eating his doughnuts.
Doughnut Plant Throwdown
I think Mark Isreal is taking himself too seriously. I have watched many a Throwdown, and it seems to me that Bobby Flay is usually happiest when his competition wins. He seems genuine about how complimentary he is to the competitors. Granted, the conditions weren't great for Mark to make doughnuts on the spot, which I totally get, but he came across as an ass. The publicity alone he will get from this show (unless people don't want to support an ass), is priceless. The show is set up to celebrate these cooks/chefs/bakers who otherwise would remain relatively obscure. The 'contenstants' are usually told they are being featured on a FN special, which they are when Throwdown airs. Unless there is some behind the scenes shenanigans going on that we don't know about, it seems like a win-win situation to me. Mark seemed completely ungracious. I wouldn't be surprised if the show was 'fixed' for him to win since he was such a baby about the whole thing.
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