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45 Responses
Really? I keep forgetting. Good thing she reminds us every five minutes!
HA! This made me laugh. How many of you are playing some version of a NFNS drinking game? If you drink every time Debbie says “Korean” you’d run out of liquor within the first 2o minutes.
I thought she was French all this time!
@ 4 Babies Home, we’ve played that since Episode 2. Same thing with Kelsey last season and “culinary school” or “buerre blanc”!
Is THAT what she calls it?!
Damnit, I’ve been completely fooled this whole time! I was certain she was French Canadian! Silly me!
My guess would have been ….Hispanic….it must be her accent…
Margaret Cho should kick Debbie’s ass
You’re Korean so what your food isn’t.
Yeah, I don’t watch any FN shows anymore, so I don’t think I’ll be watching any one of the asshats who ‘wins’ this one either. Your roundup here is as close as I’m going to get. At least this is funny!
One question though..what nationality is Debbie? I’m confused.
No, really?
This made me giggle. I dislike Debbie so much. :D
I wasn’t born in Korea, I don’t speak Korean, and I can’t cook any Korean food, but I’M KOREAN!!
Nails on a chalkboard…I know that they WANT the NFNS contestants to try and be personable, but it’s awfully redundant to just blurt out your nationality over and over again. I’m Portuguese, but I don’t end every post with that to try and make you guys relate to me! I also don’t cook goat with every meal to remind you that I’m in fact Portuguese.
I have been watching Food Network since I was about eight years old. My sister and I would pretend we had our own shows and we’d cook for our family with the other being our “audience”(lol get it? I’m boring you with my stories now). Even before NFNS came along, I’ve been losing interest in watching Food Network, and every day my love of the channel diminishes. I feel like we have enough “chefs” on this channel that received their own show simply for their personality, not their talents.
As far as I’m concerned, a cooking show should revolve around the food like it did when I was a child (it wasn’t that long ago and their shouldn’t be this drastic of a change!) instead of the antics and stories of the celebre-chefs.
Sorry for the vaguely on-topic rant, I’ll get back on track now; I’m very glad she is proud of her heritage, and I guess it’s a good thing that she is already preparing what her show will be (“Seoul to Soul” or something? I don’t even remember because I don’t really care…) but I think it’s time to start relying on your talent instead of a gimmick! Most of the FN line up already consists of shows needing a crutch to hide the inadequacies of the so-called chefs; 30 Minute Meals, Semi-Homemade Cooking, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, etc. FN will soon go the way of MTV, replacing food entirely for reality until five in the morning when they will play re-runs of Iron Chef America and Good Eats, making the name of their channel as ironic as “Music Television”.
Let’s see a NFNS winner actually be an accomplished, entertaining chef instead of a gimmick beloved by the network, not the fans.
Sorry again for the rant :P
Guess what? I’m an American! Oooooohh, ahhhh. Goodness, Debbie is such a loser and that’s all she can think of. I hate that bitch.
I can see Korea from Debbie’s House!
@DesignerJeans – You are my new favorite commenter, my friend. :)
@Designer Jeans, that made me laugh out loud. Good one!
:)
Here comes a breath of fresh air ——
I’m NOT Korean!!
I did not see last night’s episode.Did she wear her famous snowboots ? That cow has never taken those things off .
I do not think she is Korean.I think she might be Inuit though.
No, but she was still Korean
@Glock, exactly. If she truly could cook some Korean food, she wouldn’t have to actually remind us she is Korean. The food would speak for itself. Seems like Bobby Flay is the only judge who has figured this out!
I do enjoy the semi-moo moo look Debbie employs on occasion. Hey, did I mention I’m Missourian? She was more than willing to let Katie take the fall for using lighter cheeses and whole wheat pasta if that particular dish turned out bad — it was Katie’s idea, after all — so that gave Debbie an out to begin with. See, I’m Missourian, and I didn’t really like Katie, either, but since Debbie is already the winner, it’s frustrating.
BTW, Susie’s never had shrimp in mac ‘n cheese? There are at least 3-4 recipes on foodnetwork.com alone that are basically shrimp mac ‘n cheese. As a Missourian, I wish Susie and Debbie would get a room and never show us.
I’ve been told not to make fun of Bob Tuschman, though. Since I’m Missourian, I respect that.
I’m a Scottish-Irish-Norwegian-Lithuanian-Polack, but I have several Korean friends. Can I have a Food Network show? Please? I have minimal culinary education, but–oh–I have a college degree, so I’m overqualified. Damn.
She’s obese and ugly too…
She SAYS she’s a Southern home cookin’/Korean cook, but how much Korean food has she actually made on TV? That’s not retorical; I don’t watch NFNS, so I’m genuinely curious how much evidence she has to back up her claim of Korean cookin’! Also, I’m Choctaw Indian, so this is totally relevant to me, because I’m Choctaw Indian.
All I know is, in this household, my half-Korean boyfriend and I (I’m Choctaw Indian, by the way) cook naeng-myun and japchae at least once a week, and chow down on seasoned garlic stems, kimchi, chame melon, and perilla leaves almost daily. With that claim, I bet I’m a more Korean cook than she is (and I’m Choctaw Indian)!
How on earth did I manage to misspell “rhetorical”? It’s probably because I’m Choctaw Indian.
As a Missourian, I’m still waiting to see Debbie perform “Southern” cooking as well..
On an unrelated note, Rachel Ray is on right now and YET AGAIN, she has mentioned that Oregano means joy of the mountain in Greek. Also, for the millionth time she is using roasted red peppers in one of her abominations. Roasted red peppers lose their appeal after you eat them in every single friggin dish.
They got on Debbie about the Korean thing, when will Tushy and his band of merry men get on rachel about the oregano and roasted red peppers?
PS, between the frequency of their use and the length of its name, im surprised Rachel hasnt begun calling roasted red peppers RRPs or something inane and insipid.
@Patrick, I burst out laughing at RRPs. *heehee*
I mean, c’mon. Really. We’re all Korean at heart. Really.
:-D
Up next week: Shocking news about Michael’s love life!
Hey I’m glad that Debbie is proud of her ethnicity, cause if she didn’t clarify then everyone would think she was Chinese, cause most non Asian people think every Asian person is Chinese. Go girl!
I watched the last episode and like many others am tired of the “I’m Korean” gig. Ok already, we get it. She may be comfortable in front of the camera but what kind of food is she going to cook week after week? I also don’t trust her. She was very slippery the first episode about the angel food cake dessert debacle. This is the first season of the NFNS that I am really not excited about any of the contestants and will not watch whoever wins… period.
Does anyone else get the feeling that next week’s episode is going to be about Debbie getting the dressing down we want? The end of episode promo talked about how everyone else was helping each other, except Debbie, and we have in the commercials her talking about “being selfless” and Jeffrey talking about how he won’t let someone “play the victim” who doesn’t deserve too?
Or is this FN just teasing us before pissing us off again?
I think someone should get clips of every instance of Debbie mentioning her heritage (what was it again, I forgot), put it together into one video, and send it to someone at FN (and post it on YouTube while you’re at it).
Wow seriously? And all this time I just thought she was a bitch!
really?
She got kicked off because she’s Asian. They just want another white person for Food Network…big surprise.
I don’t think it was her race, she lied several times. I’m Asian and couldn’t stand her one bit. She lied about the desert on the 1st show, the capers with bobby and doing other dishes when she focused only on hers at the dinner party. She lacks a quality called honesty.
Dessert, not desert. Sorry.
This thread is very funny!
I can see Korea from Debbie’s house is hands down the funniest thing i’ve heard in a long time.
First of all let’s face the fact that Debbie Lee has a serious character flaw despite what how tearfully she’d disagree. Instead of admitting faults she finds excuses for her mistakes. She can’t cook Korean food worth crap, her Korean is terrible (mind you it’s simple words not even sentences), and she plays the race card for being Korean. I am Korean and I was completely pissed off…I have truly been waiting for an Asian show-host but this fake person was NOT it. I am so glad Bobby Flay saw right through her BS. From her not owning up to the Miami party as kitchen manager, saying she actually used the capers, and then saying that Koreans like to eat their meat “tough”. GALBI-JJIM IS NOT TOUGH DEBBIE LEE. It is slow cooked Galbi that literally falls off the bones. I have an American friend who I introduced Korean BBQ to and he couldn’t even eat it because he considered it too “fatty” and “tender”. Debbie’s justification for that horrifying excuse for her Galbi-jjim made it seem like Koreans were like cavemen “Gnawing” rubber-meat.
Debbie Lee you were the WORST representation for a Korean-American on National TV. Please gain some morals in your life and realize that usually those who admit their faults and weaknesses are more respected than those who try to create a lame excuse for everything. But then along with your “I’m Korean” rant you frequently stated that you wouldn’t feel bad about your mistakes. Yea but neither should you lie and pretend it never happened.
I never thought I would actually cheer against a Korean-American Food Network Star contender.
@MM
No MM she did not get kicked off of FN because they are racist. Debbie cannot cook Korean. As stated earlier, she lied about her Galbi-Jjim. That or my family cookin, Korean restaurant experience in Korean, LA, anywhere I live of my favorite Korean dish are all wrong. The fact is that you can’t make 갈비찜 in an hour. It is like Korean pot-roast. To this statement I can say I may be incorrect, but I’m not a cook; neither is Debbie. Americans are much more likely to eat “tougher” meat than Koreans. It only adds to the fact that she is a complete liar and will do anything to get out of the negative spotlight. The irony, of course, being that she has permanently placed herself in one through her mendacious personality.
As many have stated, the only reason you repeatedly attest to the fact that you are Korean is purely because you can’t cook Korean. Let me give you a hint Debbie, most people find race-card playing extremely annoying. Use your talent as your credibility, not your race. If you have a special cultural background that makes your food unique, show it on the plate, not through your trash verbiage.