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I agree Adam...I think the whole schitck is exactly that....a schtick. If thier food was any good maybe I'd be more inclined to eat there again.

http://eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/heart-attack-grill-diet-center/

They're just trying to tap into the whole shock/controversy thing...and unfortunately that does work. Those news stations can't get enough of it. If you really want to dislike them watch the video on their homepage (How to Kill a Giant):
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/

Anthony Bourdain is an intelligent guy that cracks me up when in interviews, but his show bores me to death.

Giada's food sucks. It has no flavor! What the heck is AB thinking? Please get rid of Sandra Lee, I get a headache when I hear her speak. I feel like everyone is just repeating catch phrases that the other person said. We need ppl that actually know what they're saying. Bring back Mario, Emeril, Wolfgang Puck, hell even bring back Ready Set Cook!

@gabagool
The Barefoot Contessa was the name of the Hamptons gourmet food store that Ina bought years ago. Her husband spends his week at Yale and comes home on Fridays. Her friends are a little creepy, but so what!

Paula Deen is probably a decent home cook; she tells you that she isn't a chef ~ which is obvious to anyone who ever cooks anything that isn't loaded with butter, cream cheese and sour cream. And/or deep fried. That stunt with the Krispy Kreme donuts as the hamburger bun, still makes me gag a little. I do find her antics mildly amusing and sometimes grossly embarrassing

I love, love, love him and he is so spot on about FN. Ina and Giada can cook, but their new formats suck. Everything else on the network is horrible. Oh, except Alton Brown. Still love him

I discovered Bourdain not long ago and watch him every chance I get.
Finally someone real and who doesn't put on a mask to please a bunch of Producers who think they know what the People want to see and hear.
I loved that he would smoke on camera it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.Although I'll miss scenes like Anthony riding a bike in China and stopping because he's tired and out of breath and needing a cigarette break.But hopefully him quitting means he'll be with us a very long time.

Thanks Anthony your the best thing on TV!!!!

Weirdly enough, I hate most sugary things but LOVE Cinammon Toast Crunch. But I also like plain cheerios.

My college hang out used to be a tiny underground cafe where they had things like endless cups of coffee or cereal for two bucks. You could just keep on getting up and going for more. I had many a late night just eating bowls of Cinammon Toast Crunch while doing school work...

The burgers look great and the tail looks fine. The joke is a little stale but I would go there.

@CandyBean: I personally know the horrors of the N Club, from my freshman year at UNCG. And Greensboro is a pizza nightmare, except for one place on Elm that used to be decent back in the 90s. NYers would hate it but it was the only decent slice I could find.

Oh, Mellow Mushroom. So delicious. I drove 2 hours to Boone once to get a MM pizza when I lived in Greensboro, North Carolina. Last year my boyfriend (who went to college in Boone and loves MM even more than me) and I moved to New York, and wouldn't you know it? They opened a MM half a block from my boyfriend's old apartment in downtown Greensboro.
Sidebar - downtown Greensboro has a cheesy nightclub downtown with a huge, hideous, flashing marquee. The club touts this spot as "Little Times Square." Ha!

Hey, there are burgers, and then there are burgers. The owner is only in it for the money. It's not a spiritual burger, if you know what I mean. Men will fall for this shtick until the sun blows up. But not me. I will n-e-v-e-r go to this place. Living in Michigan will help. Well, at least Phoenix has Pizzeria Bianco. God, I'm gettin' hungry.

@Lvn4life: Nooo! Please don't feel like that.

Think of these things like a beach and tides. These memes, like the Heart Attack Grill one, ebb and rise. For some reason, something catches fire and goes around the web.

Weird people like me, who have hung out on Burger Beach for too many years, have seen this cycle for many burger-related things. But normal people, who only visit Burger Beach occasionally, may think something's new and send it along.

My point is that it's always nice to get emails from you, even if we have seen something already. It's a reminder that we probably need to blog about it again.

The reason I resisted this one over the years is outlined above. I think it was you and the 3 or 4 other people lately who made me realize we probably should acknowledge this place in some way on AHT.

Thank you!

Wish I could see the video now...FN removed the link.

And btw, never thought I'd see that sentence in print "In defense of Sandra Lee..." She and Rachel Ray already had plenty of venues to shill their wares... Family Circle, Women's Day, your morning paper, just about any day time talk show... since when was there NOT a voice for making simple meals at home on a budget???

I agree, FN should air shows that appeal to a variety of cooking levels, but they've set out a mandate to appeal to the simplest of minds as well. Its like a fine arts channel switching their programming to scrapbooking so that those who didn't go to art school arent' turned off.

FN seems out to fill their time slots with poster children for every demographic WalMart caters to. And lets face it, its all just something to watch in between ad placements. They're not out to educate or make the world a better place, their out to show advertising.

All that's missing now is a Rachel Ray substitute for asian cooking and most of the bases will be covered. I'll take all the piss and vinegar AB can summon up, because he's usually spot on.

Good Lord. I didn't know we had so many weenies posting on a Hamburger board.

The pictures were "actually making [me] physically ill."? Are you sure you are on the right website? Maybe you should saunter on over to NothingButSoyToday.com.

This is almost as bad as the sky-is-falling crowd that commented on my Bacon Burger 2.0 on Yahoo! Food.