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boy, I loved the premise. the 'okaaay...so' ...has already made me nuts. I keep expecting them to beat this out of her before I see another episode. recipes are great. I would love for her to make it but I wish she would just stop trying to be so cool and just teach us!

I find her to be utterly grating. I change the channel when I see her, even if it's just a commercial.

I think she's great - and I have made many of her recipes - the food is terrific.

I dont understand what's so wrong with white bread and mayo?? No one likes a turkey or ham sandwhich with lettuce, cheese, mayo, mustard and tomatoe?? Weird. I guess I'm the odd man out. I also really like Tuna sandwiches on white bread-maybe because my dad never let us eat white bread growing up...
Anyways my worst sandwich ever growing up was a PB&J with butter on the jelly side!!! I gaged everytime I took a bite to find a layer of butter in there as well UGH! And I'd have to agree with the bologna on white w/mayo-NASTY!! What is bologna anyways?? Like animal parts all ground into one little round circle lol?

When I first viewed Anne Burrell's show, "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef", I thought it was a rather interesting concept. Admittedly, she was a bit "out there", but i tried to get past some of the quirks. To be honest, she's not more annoying than the EVOO diva, or the Pepsodent pin-up, to name a couple. One of my biggest pet peeves with her, is her habit of double-dipping with the same spoon when she tastes the food (maybe it's just me).

Although I think that there's way too much emphasis on physical appearance, I would just like to add that maybe she'd do well not to wear some of those figure-hugging tops. Our girl looks like she can chow down, so having said that, those tops are not the most flattering.

I must say that I always learn a lot from her show and I respect her as a real, working chef. The FoodNetwork is much richer for having chefs of her knowledge and caliber.

watched this show for the first time today. it was the episode with grilled salmon and lentils. i was horrified. twice she dipped her spoon in the lentil pot, tasted, and then returned the drippings in the spoon to the pot. then she tasted a last time and returned the entire spoon to the pot. i will never eat anywhere she cooks. i do not understand how the producers would let that air. disgusting...

i recall some incident with trying to make a sandwich with processed american cheese slices, mustard and i think... potato\ chips or something? i made this on one of the rare occasions i was babysat claiming "my mom lets me make this all the time" i know i ate too many cheese slices that night and then threw them up.
i kinda still make the same kind of food mistakes.

Bologna on white bread with ketchup. The ketchup made everything so soggy. When I was little, I loved eating it since it kind of tasted like a hot dog. Now the thought of it makes me ill...

YES I am totally with the Miracle Whip Haters. I think I hate it because it has that slightly sweet flavor. If I wanted sweet, I'd have PB&J. I guess I always associate mayo with more savory flavors and the sweetness of Miracle Whip makes my taste buds confused and upset.

The worst ever? White bread, glops of mayo, raw white onion, parsley. Someone made this for my husband and me right after we got married. She wouldn't tell me what was in it, just that it was a surprise and I would love it. I'm amazed that I was able to get it back out of my mouth without incident, and by incident I mean the almost instantaneous upchucking that usually occurs when I accidentally bite into raw onion. It was HIDEOUS! But at least she used Hellman's ;)

Most of mine deal with tuna. I think the official worst sandwich I ever had was a tuna salad hoagie from Wawa. I have no idea how people eat their tuna, but it is SO heavily mayonnaised it just oozes out of the sandwich. Blech. I can feel my arteries clogging just thinking about that day.
I also made the mistake once of packing a tuna salad sandwich (made at home with a normal tuna:mayo ratio) to eat several hours later at lunch. I don't think it would've been hazardous to my health to eat the sandwich, but it definitely felt like the salad had taken a turn for the worse over the course of that time. Apparently it wasn't kept cold enough.
One last one...my family had a constant war going as to how to make tuna salad. My mom and I agreed that it should be tuna, mayo, celery, and onions, my dad wanted his with relish (*shudder*). So one day at lunch, my mom offered me tuna salad, i bit in expecting my normal sandwich, and got my dad's sandwich instead. Horrible surprise.

Bologna, Kraft Singles and Miracle Whip on fat white bread. Blech!!

Also, I don't like butter on cold sandwiches, so... some kind of mystery pre-wrapped deli style meat like olive loaf with buttered bread. The horror....

Actually, most of those weird, funny smelling deli-style meats on anything are gross.

@KarynMC - OMG, my Canadian grandparents served me those sandwiches! Some days it was white sugar, some days brown, but always butter and white bread!

My mom and aunts had a love affair with packaged, sliced ham (Danola, I think). They would serve it on Wonder Bread - double ugh - with either mayo or Squeeze Parkay Margarine.

All the ingredients would stick to one another the moment you took a bite, and then, en masse, they would stick to the roof of your mouth, your teeth, etc. It was like wallpaper glue in a lunchbox. I am gagging at the mouth feel memory of those slimy, chewy creations.