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I definitely agree with the Refectory and Jeni's Ice Cream, congrats and have fun.

amen.

i can feel the love. @ chelley, iz see ya on the other side.

Indeed Chelley, indeed.

When you say "Checking the boards", whatever that may mean (and it certainly doesn't mean trolling) it belies your age. Here's a site that talks about trolling. I'm sure that there are still "message boards", but most of us post on "blogs" now.

Please take a look, and stop SHOUTING.

I don't have an itsy bitsy X in the corner of the page; I don't use Microsoft products. No sane person does (for the more sensitive, I'm kidding).

Many here say "go somewhere else." Do you assume that I don't look at other food sites? I do. All the time. And I'd like SE to live up to some of those other sites.

When you say "3 of him of Mario's washed up fat ass", I'm guessing you mean "three of him over Mario's washed up fat ass". To me, that's the issue. Guy is a hyped-up, Food Network husker. He can't be washed up: he has never been. Mario is a talented chef, known the world over. He's certainly done some questionably commercial stuff, but he's a proven chef.

Personally, I wouldn't do illegal stuff with either of them. That would be illegal.

Come on guys, give Don a break...you know that a lot of what he said is true, you just don't want to own up to it.

@mich23: "I am, however, sure, Don Luis that any country that you reside in, is indeed poorer having you as an inhabitant."

I could not, however, have said that, any better, myself. Well, perhaps I could: Don Luis, I'm sure that any country in which you live is poorer as a result.

@shipwreck: Hint: if you want to ignore a post, don't respond to it.

Where are you from? I don't recognize the accent. Perhaps you should write in your native language; you are not much good at English.

Um, sail on dude. Whatever.

@Teachertalk: sometimes I make pizza from scratch, and sometimes I make hot dogs and Kraft mac and cheese. Costco sells a frozen French onion soup that I love: I always have it in the freezer for when I need it. I cook several time a week for an extended family of six. It's always a challenge to find food that everyone will like, food we can afford, and food we have the time to make.

I was trying to be playful, and I regret that many people took it the wrong way. I am serious about food, perhaps too serious. Thank you for your post.

I joined Serious Eats at the beginning, and I'd just hate to see it go the way of the Food Network. I'm just not willing to follow their lead in trading Mario Batali for Guy Fieri. I'm a long time Serious Eats reader and sometimes contributor; if I didn't care, I wouldn't comment.

@ those of you who pointed out that I must be a man, because my screen name is "Don Luis", and I wrote "I'm a bitter old man":

Newsflash: you can lie in the Internet. Were it not for the anonymity, I doubt that some of you would have had the courage to post what you did. (BTW, I'm actually a 19-year old Swedish super model named Inga.)

@smallkitchen~~I sometimes think the difficulty or not of peeling the HBE is proportionate to the rough life the chicken had before it laid said egg before it became a HBE. (trying to be serious but laughing at myself, even)

I love this site, it's entertaining and educational, and I keep coming back for more.

@izzy~sorry i forgot. i still have the block i stole from your curb, way back when. i'm gonna use it like a chi-pet and see what grows. i'm thinking something in the color green.

OK, no one is making comments on this thread anymore. So it's a perfect time for me to weigh in! Yes, we are all silly, as Don Luis has noticed. But we shouldn't be defensive about it. I can cook pretty well--but when I come home from work, my favorite dinner is the Costco shrimp wonton soup that I see Asian families loading into their carts, because they know it tastes good, too. I am a bundle of paradoxes; I can taste the difference between good and bad food, but does that mean I always want to create it? Much of the time I am a lazy slug.
So Serious Eats appeals to the part of me that wants to cook "grand" and eat out very well, and also to the "slugfest" (that comes out of a frozen box, or a box of noodles) I occasionally yearn for.
I think Don Luis' original post was playful and challenging. It was not devastating and hurtful. So my take on this thread is "Blog ON!!!" Don Luis: keep up your comments. And tell us what YOU do well after a long day of work!

@magannesta~hey leave velveeta outta this. lol.

If it says anything, I'm also registered to Chowhound, but I visit Serious Eats everyday and Chowhound only rarely with a very very specific query.