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Food Network Magazine Promoting Debbie Lee’s Hot Dogs
Published on: July 2, 2009 – 1:20 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Last month, we predicted Debbie Lee was going to win this season of Next Food Network Star based on how the judges reacted to her dishes and how Susie Fogelson all but foamed at the mouth every time the two breathed the same air.
Now it seems Debbie will soon be opening (…wait for it…) A HOT DOG RESTAURANT in Los Angeles. Food Network Magazine did a write up of it in this month’s new issue, which as far as we’re concerned, just adds more fuel to the “Debbie Is The Pre-Chosen NFNS Winner” fire.
The restaurant will be called Hot Dog Debbie’s (awfully uncreative, no?) and is scheduled to open this summer. She’ll be serving up what the FN Mag calls “serious comfort food” like the Morning Dog – a hot dog covered in fried eggs and maple syrup. How disgusting does THAT sound? Frankly, I’m not sure how “comfortable” I’d be while kneeling over the toilet after eating that thing.
Either the Food Network is awfully transparent, or they think we’re awfully stupid. If Debbie was just some contestant, I highly doubt they’d be promoting a conceptualized restaurant of hers that’s not even open yet. As it stands right now, the website URL printed in the magazine just goes to a parked GoDaddy page! Now that’s classy! Let me guess… she has a hotmail address, too?
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FN thinks their audience is made up of morons. I’m really surprised that they’ve kept Alton Brown around.
“How disgusting does THAT sound?”
Sounds pretty damn disgusting to me.
From Seoul to Soul to Hot Dogs? Yah, that’ll work out just fine………… not….
As for Debbie, I fear she now has so much centrifugal force going now that even IF she loses, she will still get Press and PR no matter what she does for a while, much like that arrogant S.O.B. “Stephan” from Top Chef last season.
VILE VILE VILE!
Well, now in all fairness, it IS hot in LA and Debbie is a dog…
Byrdie: You little devil, I laughed myself silly.
“a hot dog covered in fried eggs and maple syrup”
Just reading that makes me feel the need to kneel over the toilet! Yuck!!
And just for the record, what is Pan-Asian about hot dogs?
If that’s a sample of her menu, then I’d hate to see the rest of it. Seriously, I don’t know anyone who’d want to eat that. I think whoever eats it will be anything but comfortable. Perhaps she should consider serving free Pepto Bismol chasers with every meal?
KittyKitty,
Maybe she came up with that menu just after getting hit in the head during the last episode?
Would explain a lot no?
Oh Please – The FN better get with the program and not chose another unhealthy, high fat cook to grace their air waves again. I am for Kate and her low fat, organic approach to cooking. Although her on camera work needs a bit of fine tuning. But she did good on Rachael Ray show today. Does anyone else agree?
But– but– hot dogs don’t even require real cooking! They’re already cooked – all you do is heat them up. How does boiling a hot dog equal “restaurant”? Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Gray’s Papaya, but that’s not a restaurant in my book. That’s more like “street food”. How can this woman pretend to be a chef?
And how the heck will she be able to make an entire restaurant menu out of only hot dogs with various nasty combinations of crap piled on top? I’m already gagging at the thought of the Pan-Asian hot dog with kimchi and miso…
Maybe she’ll put some of that Italian Salad from the previous post on one of her yummy dogs. Nomnomnomnom…
Yes Donna I agree, Kate has the right message she just needs to fine tune it, low fat and low calorie can be yummy, its all in moderation
I don’t know, if she were chosen as the winner of this year’s NFNS, how would she have time to open a new restaurant and host a new TV show on FN at the same time?
This may just point to her NOT being the winner.
I’m betting whoever did win is currently spending many hours a day filming episodes to air in the Fall, and being groomed by FN producers.
I don’t read the FN mag, but it seems silly that they would publish something like this when the season hasn’t fully aired yet.
Interesting point, Daria. I saw it as Debbie Lee desperately trying to throw a restaurant together, so she’d have something to capitalize on once her new show aired on Food Network… considering most of the FN chefs have restaurants of their own that make money based on their names alone.
What’s in a SEOUL2SOUL(tm) hot dog?? Surely, kimchee will not replace sauerkraut since we all know Debbie proudly doesn’t know how to make it!
“And just for the record, what is Pan-Asian about hot dogs?”
Maybe she’ll be using real dog?
Hey don’t yell at me – not being racist – a lot of Asian people really DO eat dog.
@Di – ewwwwwww. I mean, arf arf arf….
@ Daria The winner only gets six low budget shows these can be knocked out in a few days.
So much for soul to soul and Granny Lee’s comfort food. If the egg and hotdog thing is the best she can come up with I’m scared (but curious) as to what other horrors she can come up with.
Clearly there is something going on re Debbie and FN either she been picked as the winner or she knows someone (perhaps that slobbish woman in charge of the network) and is getting free publicity for her new venture. And every one at FN is under orders to be nice. Clearly they can’t do enough for this woman whatever the reason.
She could put 1.5 lbs of raw garlic on her hotdogs to make them authentic Korean. Koreans eat on average 23 lbs of garlic a year. Americans eat 2 lbs.
Do you think Debbie will wear her famous snowboots on her new show ? That broad hasn’t taken them off since the start of the show.
If Debbie wins, I won’t be watching her show!! She is twenty kinds of wrong!
Well, to be fair, if it were like a big breakfast sausage link, then the Morning Dog doesn’t sound so gross. I dip my breakfast sausage in syrup whenever I have them with pancakes (which is kind of rare. Haven’t had pancakes in a very long time).
In fact, a big flapjack lined with a fried egg and a sausage link and a drizzle of maple syrup on top sounds kind of good. White trash and very Homer Simpson, but good.
Ewww, you cannot be serious about that Morning Dog.
Someone tell me FN are the ones doing the parody this time.
Please, someone.
Now we know how she got her full figure.
The only dogs I eat are from Rutt’s Hut.
I’m now regretting the turkey dog I ate earlier.
…Nah. I think I’ll have another. Just not any of Little Debbie’s Dogs.
Bulgolgi Dog?
haha i dont think she would last in LA cause she has to compete with Pinks which is a Staple there and a damn good hot dog
Ain’t nuthin like a good Nathan’s dog, grilled. You can’t mess with perfection.
@ Jillian did they promote anyone else besides Debbie?
This bitch needs to get TF out of Los Angeles with her shit! I had a feeling she could win the whole thing too. God, how I hate FN and all the disgusting shit they put on the air and promote. fuckers!
@daria – ITA!
Even worse–Debbie will also be hosting a cooking class at Sur La Table on 7/6 in LA. Don’t plan on attending that class! Can’t get to the Sur La Table link, since the remaining finalists will be hosting cooking classes at select Sur La Table locations. The chosen ones also include Michael, Teddy, Melissa, Brett, Eddie, Katie, and Jeffrey
Wow. Sur La Table? I just lost a whole lot of respect for Sur. Bummer.
I am in complete agreement with Jillian. Debbie is getting her own show. She may not win TNFS, but FN will be rue to let her go. She’s so ridiculous, so outlandish, so far from her culture and still promoting it; they simply have to keep her. Like Adam G. Debbie will never die.
L.A. already has one classic place for hot dogs, Pinks… and believe me that is one too many for that health conscious state… is she kidding me?
I think I am going to be sick. Debbie has absolutely no talent. Her vile demeanor is so unbecoming. What does she have on Suzie and Bob? Incriminating evidence? They can’t be serious about her.
I’m a “try anything once” kind of girl but ech…I don’t know about this. For one, that “Morning Dog” sounds just awful and she should think about a re-name to “Morning Sickness Dog”. On top of that, I’ve never said to my friends or family, “I feel like going out to eat. Let’s get HOT DOGS!!!” And I’d certainly never say that about a FN star’s restaurant. I can’t even imagine what the prices will be for this nonsense.
Keep the hot dogs in the base ball parks, please! And definitely stop trying to revolutionize them with crap toppings, thanks!
Somehow Korean and Dog in the same title leaves a nasty picture in my head. Watch out what those “dogs” are made of!
You don’t suppose they are trying to make some type of connection between Debbie Lee and Bobby Lee (the Korean comedian) – with his famous “uh oh hotdog!” line ?
Some L.A. inside joke?
That would be kind of weird . . . or would it ?
Wow, you guys are so full of hate with a few bigots thrown in there too! LA is notorious for opening up new restaurants, so whats the big deal for one more? So sad how racist and close minded viewers of the Food Network can be. I hope her restaurant becomes a success, because I don’t wish failure on people that haven’t hurt me personally. You all need to have a cup of instant smile!
Either the Food Network is awfully transparent, or they think we’re awfully stupid.>>>>>
Who says both scenarios cannot apply equally?
@Amy…bitch, bigotry has nothing to do it. Educate yourself on FN’s continual idiocy and you will see for yourself. BTW, I am microwaving your instant cup o’ smile for 5 minutes and then throwing same into your face. Oh, please make sure you eat one of Debbie Lee’s breakfast dogs with egg and maple syrup and post your review here.
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Naturally, hotdogs are Korean. And Debbie just so happens to be Korean. coincidence?
What is it with Koreans? I like them and their food, but they all have such huge, round faces. Do you think FN needed a perfectly circular head to fill a void in their programming?
I actually thought the piece in the magazine might signal that she is not the winner. Seems like anything related to that would be a terrible show. I figure that is what she does when she loses. FN was promoting Katie’s web site and nutrition business on their web site right before she was kicked off the show.
“Poor little me” Debbie is a joke! She has lied to the judges, tricked other contestants and is basically a very mean person with no honor. If she wins I will NEVER watch her show or eat her stupid hot dogs. As a metter of fact, I’ll quit watching all the other shows too! It looks like she is a Ringer to me!
What happened to “I’m Korean”? That is unless these hotdogs really are dogs!!!
Well, I’m excited that Debbie Lee is doing well, may be she has money to pay what she owes to people that have done work for her at paragon!! Here’s something for her to work on. right???
I second that Terri! I never got paid either. And what’s with the southern upbringing she boasts? She’s from Orange County. I guess that’s southern California!
Detroit-style Coney Island hot dogs FTW!