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You Know You’re In A Recession When… Paula Deen starts putting raisins on her brownies instead of imported walnuts
You Know You’re In A Recession When… Producers make Rachael Ray rename her show $37.50 A Day
You Know You’re In A Recession When… Aaron McCargo is forced to sell his gold earring and replace it with a free keyring
You Know You’re In A Recession When… People start asking Aida about money markets
You Know You’re In A Recession When… The Iron Chef America kitchen only stocks leftovers from Bobby Flay’s restaurant
You Know You’re In A Recession When… Ina Garten starts buying eye round roast instead of filet
You Know You’re In A Recession When… Guy Fieri trades in his Oakleys for a pair of discounted Panama Jack’s
You Know You’re In A Recession When… Adam Gertler is working for food, room, and board
You Know You’re In A Recession When… Alton Brown starts developing a show called “Feasting On Dumpsters”
You Know You’re In A Recession When… There’s actually room to eat on a Sandra Lee tablescape
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You know you’re in a recession when… Pat Neely starts wearing Gina’s shirts (oh wait, that’s happening)
You know you’re in a recession when… Sandra Lee only buys one bottle of vodka at a time.
You know you’re in a recession when… Duff Goldman grows a full beard to save on heating costs.
I would laugh my ass off if I ever saw Ina Garten purchasing an eye of round roast. Seriously.
Very clever!
You know you’re in a recession when, Aaron Mccargo Jr sells his gold tooth for frying oil.
ew i dont want aarons tooth out there on the market neo!
You know you’re REALLY in a recession when:
Sandra Lee no longer uses pumpkin pie spice, frozen peaches and only uses one-half of a seasoning packet.
Ina Garten no longer takes trips to the florist to get tulips and other flowers of the same hue.
Giada DeLaurentiis uses ground red meat instead of ground turkey, no longer uses mah-scar-po-nay and starts wearing tops that actually cover her up.
Paula Deen uses margarine.
Bobby Flay switches to a portable grill.
Tyler’s Ultimate’s new shows include “Ultimate Franks & Beans”, “Ultimate Spam” and “Ultimate Ramen Noodles”.
You know it’s a Recession when the contestants of Ultimate Recipe Showdown have to pay for their ingredients — and the the number used in a recipe is cut by half.
You know…when Pauler Deen has to style her wigs herself, and starts looking like Lucy Richardo!
You know…when Guy Fee-Yeti has to push that big red car at the opening of DDD, rather than act like he’s driving it across the country. Heck, I’d pay to see that.
You know you’re in a recession when Ina Garten can’t buy any more gay friends.
mine:
Guy has to re-title his show to “Dives, Dives, and more Dives” (and of course the drapes will once again match the curtains.)
the domain foodnetwork.com starts to forward all traffic to allrecipes.com
More shows are taped in homeless shelter kitchens.
You know you’re in a recession when … Bob Tuschman asks Sunny,Aaron, Anne & The Neelys to take a pay cut from $ 67.50 an episode to $14.00 an episode.. and they oblige.
(and of course the drapes will once again match the curtains.)
LMAO
yeah, I think I flubbed that one, but you got the idea.
When a Rachael Ray look-alike starts a new series on HGTV called “$20 a day”.
You guys are all so funny. Seriously. I’m dying here.
I love th Duff one, I have a need to go after the jugular on him, he is fake,fat and a fag. He needs to be put down already. I can go on and on about his homofanboy thing for Neil Fallon (Bam Margera wannabe 100 percent), Duff being fake (come out already…), and last but not least his evergrowing waistline and the freaky man-boobs. But anywho..you know when you are in a recession when Duff goes on HSN to whore his bake pans.
Hilarious, but it must be said that even if the World economy faltered as a whole, Ina Garten would still be using “good vanilla” and driving her Mercedes to they gay florist in the morning and her BMW to the beach in February that afternoon. Possibly the wealthiest chef in the universe!
Sorry. Ina is NOT a chef. Liking to cook and being wealthy enough to get on tv is not that same as being a genuine, trained chef. Few of the FN “personalities” are actual chefs. They are “food celebrities”. Ask Bob Tuschman.
Giving Guy way too much credit. Those shades were Faux-kley from day one!
Even when wearing shades on the back of your head was “cool”, it was still never cool. Whoever came up with that one should be dragged out into the middle of the street and shot.