Robin would like everyone to know that she is really happy how Restaurant Wars worked out last week. Uh, no-doy, Robin. You rode the chef's-coattails of your much more talented teammates to one more week of precious, despised safety. It's... CONTINUE READING TOP CHEF S06E10: WELCOME TO SIN-SLASH-VEGETABLES CITY»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Natalie Portman | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
It's amazing that we are in season six of this show and they only just realized that Restaurant Wars is a ridiculous and outlandish test of absolutely nothing. "You have 45 minutes to make this abandoned warehouse look like an... CONTINUE READING TOP CHEF S06E09: RESTAURANT WARS IS A LITTLE LESS HELL»
Posted on October 22, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Food | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
This is probably the best Dark Knight cake ever made. It is no Twilight cake, but it is still very very good. (Thanks for the tip, Edith.)... CONTINUE READING WHY SO DELICIOUS?»
Posted on October 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Batman | Cake | Food | The Dark Knight
Today, of course, is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year. Jews around the world are fasting today and praying that they will once again be written into the book of... CONTINUE READING HAPPY YOM KIPPUR, JEWS»
Posted on September 28, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Jews | Yom Kippur
This is Las Vegas, baby! It's just like they always say: what happens in Vegas can be rehashed into a corny reality competition theme a billion different ways. It's all about strippers and vices and gambling and excess and crisp... CONTINUE READING TOP CHEF: ANGELS AND DEVILS AND CLOWNS»
Posted on September 24, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Las Vegas | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
Date: Unknown Time: Unknown Location: Unknown Source: youtube.com Description: Completely bizarre and indeterminate video clip of former professional wrestler Dusty Rhodes providing a shirtless tour of a meat market's walk-in cooler ends with TWSS (Filed Jointly Under: TWHS, Nullus, No... CONTINUE READING THE TWSS ARCHIVES: DUSTY RHODES MEAT COMMERCIAL (?) MOMENT»
Posted on September 21, 2009 in
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Tags: Dusty Rhodes | Food | Huh?
You can tell that the competition is starting to wear the chefs down. Ashley's older brother had a baby, but she couldn't be there because she is in Las Vegas cutting carrots into fake poker chips, or whatever, to prove... CONTINUE READING TOP CHEF: SAVE A HORSE, EAT A COWBOY»
Posted on September 17, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Las Vegas | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
For one blessed week we are given a reprieve from the relentless Las Vegas-ness of this season. I'm sure next week it will be back to "make an omelet from these pawned items that tastes like sadness," and "you have... CONTINUE READING TOP CHEF: THESE FLAVOR PROFILES DON'T RUN»
Posted on September 3, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
The Internet is going crazy today over the new KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich, which features two pieces of bacon and two pieces of cheese "sandwiched" between two pieces of fried chicken. That is a ridiculous "sandwich." It's a real... CONTINUE READING FANTASTIC MYSTERIES: DOES THE KFC DOUBLE DOWN CHICKEN SANDWICH EVEN EXIST?»
Posted on August 21, 2009 in
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Tags: Abominable Snowman | Double Down Chicken Sandwich | Food | KFC | Nessie | Yeti
This season of Top Chef will take place in Las Vegas, and already, after one episode, I am so tired of all of the Las Vegas stuff. Just make your food! Yum yum put it in your mouth. You don't... CONTINUE READING TOP CHEF: SIN CITY IS ALL IN WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN»
Posted on August 20, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Gail Simmons | Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
California, the world's third largest economy, is in dire straits. Governor Schwarzenegger has called for 1/4 of the state's budget to be cut in order to deal with a $26 million deficit. Unemployment is at 11.2 percent, nearly two-percent higher... CONTINUE READING A BRAVE CALIFORNIA WOMAN SOLVES ALL THE PROBLEMS»
Posted on July 24, 2009 in
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Tags: Brawndo | California | Economic Crisis | Food | Idiocracy
Will this Summer of Death never end? The solid-gold casket company is working overtime! From People: She charmed millions without ever saying a word, and managed to make fast food tacos adorable. Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco... CONTINUE READING HEAVEN JUST GOT A LITTLE MORE THE TACO BELL CHIHUAHUA»
Posted on July 22, 2009 in
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Tags: Dogs | Food | Garbage | Heaven | Taco Bell
Padma Lakshmi, ex-wife of Salman Rushdie, host of Top Chef, and Hardee's spokesbreasts, is about to add 'sitcom star' to her resume (because that is how resumes work). From Variety (via WarmingGlow): "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi is cooking up... CONTINUE READING LET'S "STIR FRY UP" A NAME FOR PADMA LAKSHMI'S SITCOM»
Posted on July 20, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Food | Jay-Z | Padma Lakshmi | Sitcoms | Top Chef
OK. I had been wondering for weeks why A1 had changed its slogan to "A-1 Steak Sauce: TIME TO TRIP BALLZ." New direction. That bottle of sauce is TOO BIG. Check this out! Hahaha! Whoa! They have another slogan,... CONTINUE READING MEAT LOAF WILL DO ANYTHING FOR CASH, AND HE WILL DO THIS (GET IT?)»
Posted on July 17, 2009 in ,
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Tags: A-1 Steak Sauce | Food | Meat Loaf
Mentos used to be the candy of success. Let's say, for example, that you wanted to get into a music concert but the bouncer wouldn't let you. EASY. Just eat a Mentos, and now you're crawling through the back of... CONTINUE READING MENTOS, THE FAILMAKER»
Posted on July 16, 2009 in
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Tags: Candy | Food | Gum | Mentos | Nostalgia | Yuck
Looks like Renee Zellweger has figured out how to use a chest of drawers. She's back! From People: Zellweger, 40, is expected to start filming at the end of this year what will be the third installment about the love-starved... CONTINUE READING BRIDGET JONES DIARY 3: FAT THROTTLE»
Posted on July 15, 2009 in
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Tags: Bridget Jones Diary | Food | Health | Renee Zellweger
Taco Bell has a new ad that is obviously a total rip-off of the Lonely Island. I'm on a new bacon cheesy potato burrito, I'm on a new bacon cheesy potato burrito, everybody look at me, I'm on a motherfuckin'... CONTINUE READING TACO BELL RIPS OFF WENDY'S RIPPING OFF THE LONELY ISLAND »
Posted on July 10, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Food | Taco Bell | The Lonely Island | Wendy's
Michael Phelps is an American champion who has made sports history, and nothing can take that away from him. NOT THAT HE HASN'T BEEN TRYING. But in the case of his new Subway commercial, I'm not even sure what is... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS WOULD LIKE A FOOTLONG PANCAKE WITH SLICED PANCAKES, CHOPPED PANCAKES, EXTRA PANCAKES, AND PANCAKE SAUCE»
Posted on July 7, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Michael Phelps | Pancakes | Subway
Date: Summer 2009 Time: Unknown Location: Broadcast Television Source: AdFreak Description: Nationwide retailer of edible garbage makes advertisement in which actors portraying ordinary citizens conduct fake "blind taste test" in order to use TWSS for supposedly comedic effect. Endless barrage... CONTINUE READING THE TWSS ARCHIVES: HARDEE'S COMMERCIAL»
Posted on June 30, 2009 in
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Tags: Carl's Jr. | Food | Hardee's
Aww! A couple of girls in Texas were inspired by Arrested Development, and so they opened their own banana stand. So good! From the Austin Decider: Last year, Notario found herself sidelined by illness for nearly a week, unable... CONTINUE READING THERE IS ALWAYS REAL LIFE MONEY IN THE REAL LIFE BANANA STAND»
Posted on June 30, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Arrested Development | Food | Treats!
Hahahaha. Unbelievable. I am willing to believe that impulse control is a serious enough problem for some people to the point of needing professional help. And I recognize that the human body comes in all shapes and sizes and... CONTINUE READING KIRSTIE ALLEY TO LEGALLY CHANGE HER NAME TO "NOM NOM NOM"»
Posted on June 3, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Kirstie Alley | Obesity | Sonic | Twitter
Whoa. Something has happened to (INSERT: a dude who looks like) Nate Dogg, you guys. Let's just say that he's gone from (a dude who looks like a) hip hop star to a TLC star, and it has something to... CONTINUE READING REGULATORS, LAID UP»
Posted on May 20, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Nate Dogg | Pixies | Warren G
Nice try, Soulja Boy. Wait, what did I say? I meant terrible try. Mr. Chi-City is LOL'ing at you as he drives to his lawyer's office. You can sue this shit and it ain't butter. I hope Arab understands... CONTINUE READING SOULJA BOY AS BAD AT VLOGS AS HE IS AT MUSIC»
Posted on May 11, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Mr. Chi-City | Soulja Boy | Weezer
Oprah decided to give out coupons for free grilled chicken at KFC, because if there's one thing that Oprah understands it's a healthy diet. She thought, "let me see if I can do what I have done for books to... CONTINUE READING IT'S OPRAH'S WORLD, WE JUST RIOT OVER CHICKEN IN IT»
Posted on May 6, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | KFC | Oprah | Riots
On the outside they look like regular old boiled potatoes (also: virgins). On the inside they're stuffed with talent. Yum.... CONTINUE READING SUSAN BOYLED POTATOES»
Posted on April 22, 2009 in
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Tags: Food | Susan Boyle
