that one really weird thing on your mind that is making you laugh your ass off

Ipuntya · Jun 21, 2017 at 5:22 PM

Irrational Geographic said: ↑

I love the game shows on the Food Network; they've inspired me to cook, and I've cooked several okayish meals using my big brother as a guinea pig. Cooks vs Cons (two amateurs compete against two pros, while nobody knows who's who); my favorite of the three, Cutthroat Kitchen (chefs bid using prize money on ways to screw each other over), and the granddaddy of Food Network game shows, Chopped.

Chopped has a simple and appealing premise: there are three rounds (appetizer, entree, and dessert), and in each round, the four chefs are given a basket with four mystery ingredients that must be used and feature prominently in the dish, while being given a pantry of other foods to supplement the cooking. At the end of each of the three rounds, one chef is eliminated - chopped - until a champion remains.

Now, I also love when companies try Internet polls with no restrictions. I love when they learn that attempting to poll the Internet goes awry.

Some executive at the Food Network decided to do a Viewers' Choice episode of Chopped, where all the mandatory ingredients for all three rounds were chosen by an Internet poll. There's literally nothing that could go wrong with that, right? Like, the viewers wouldn't just fuck with the chefs by choosing disgusting, non-synergistic, or weird foods, right? Right?

Appetizer round: lime jello-, imitation crab meat, crunchy cheese curls, DURIAN
Entree round: canned whole chicken, clam chowder, tater tots, skirt steak
Dessert round: fruit cocktail, cottage cheese, kale, marrow bones

Beautiful.
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okay but i'm reading that article you linked AND I AM LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY BC PITBULL ACTUALLY ACCEPTED IT

Ipuntya · Jun 21, 2017 at 6:07 PM

Irrational Geographic said: ↑

I love the game shows on the Food Network; they've inspired me to cook, and I've cooked several okayish meals using my big brother as a guinea pig. Cooks vs Cons (two amateurs compete against two pros, while nobody knows who's who); my favorite of the three, Cutthroat Kitchen (chefs bid using prize money on ways to screw each other over), and the granddaddy of Food Network game shows, Chopped.

Chopped has a simple and appealing premise: there are three rounds (appetizer, entree, and dessert), and in each round, the four chefs are given a basket with four mystery ingredients that must be used and feature prominently in the dish, while being given a pantry of other foods to supplement the cooking. At the end of each of the three rounds, one chef is eliminated - chopped - until a champion remains.

Now, I also love when companies try Internet polls with no restrictions. I love when they learn that attempting to poll the Internet goes awry.

Some executive at the Food Network decided to do a Viewers' Choice episode of Chopped, where all the mandatory ingredients for all three rounds were chosen by an Internet poll. There's literally nothing that could go wrong with that, right? Like, the viewers wouldn't just fuck with the chefs by choosing disgusting, non-synergistic, or weird foods, right? Right?

Appetizer round: lime jello-, imitation crab meat, crunchy cheese curls, DURIAN
Entree round: canned whole chicken, clam chowder, tater tots, skirt steak
Dessert round: fruit cocktail, cottage cheese, kale, marrow bones

Beautiful.
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there at least one other viewer's choice episode (s23e02) that i found while looking for this!:
appetizer round: calf eyeballs, pickled eggs, instant ramen noodles, ramps
entree round: beef tongue, chimichurri sauce. shitake mushrooms, boxed mac & cheese
dessert round: pig skin, baby food(apples and apricots), margarita pizza, an ostrich egg

amusingly, two of the contestants were an ex-couple, and occasionally threw some lighthearted shade at each other in addition to the sadistic people who took part in the internet polls

Lambda · Jun 21, 2017 at 6:27 PM

Ipuntya said: ↑

ramps
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delicious

LadyNighteyes · Jun 21, 2017 at 6:35 PM

Lambda said: ↑

delicious
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Nah, they're a relative of wild onions which are famous for making you smell funny for days after eating them.

Taste fine, though.

Ipuntya · Jun 21, 2017 at 6:45 PM

Lambda said: ↑

delicious
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Lambda · Jun 21, 2017 at 6:48 PM

live a little, people. spice up your mealtimes

Lerxst · Jun 21, 2017 at 8:10 PM

Thinking about the first person to eat durian always makes me laugh a little.

"Holy shit! You guys! This giant spiky ball just fell out of a tree and crushed my friend's skull! And it smells like a sewer! IMMA EAT IT"

Saro · Jun 21, 2017 at 8:28 PM

Lambda said: ↑

live a little, people. spice up your mealtimes
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Well, I would, but it would set off Hell Disease

Deresto · Jun 21, 2017 at 8:41 PM

Irrational Geographic · Jun 22, 2017 at 1:43 AM

Ipuntya said: ↑

there at least one other viewer's choice episode (s23e02) that i found while looking for this!:
appetizer round: calf eyeballs, pickled eggs, instant ramen noodles, ramps
entree round: beef tongue, chimichurri sauce. shitake mushrooms, boxed mac & cheese
dessert round: pig skin, baby food(apples and apricots), margarita pizza, an ostrich egg

amusingly, two of the contestants were an ex-couple, and occasionally threw some lighthearted shade at each other in addition to the sadistic people who took part in the internet polls
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The fact that they did a viewer's choice episode again proves that Food Network executives learned nothing - or, alternatively, they learned exactly what they needed to.

swirlingflight · Jun 22, 2017 at 9:21 AM

DECEARING EGG

BaseDeltaZero · Jun 23, 2017 at 9:10 PM

I'm not sure if the fact that the grammar potentially implies his wife has the face of a 3 foot penis makes it better or worse.

budgie · Jun 23, 2017

eta: source

Lazarae · Jun 23, 2017 at 11:44 PM

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oh fuck you

Ipuntya · Jun 25, 2017 at 5:25 PM

Lerxst · Jun 25, 2017 at 6:35 PM

budgie · Jun 26, 2017 at 2:22 AM

(source)

LadyNighteyes · Jun 26, 2017 at 10:31 AM

budgie said: ↑

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The majestic bald eagle, being majestic. :::PPP

unknownanonymous · Jun 26, 2017 at 3:01 PM

Deresto · Jun 26, 2017 at 4:33 PM

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