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Hair In Throwdown Food?
Published on: February 7, 2010 – 9:18 am by Jillian Madison 
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I didn’t watch this week’s Vermont Brownie Company episode of Throwdown With Bobby Flay, but luckily, FNH reader Paul did. During the plated shots of the entries at the end, the Vermont Brownie Company’s was on screen and Paul’s wife noticed what seemed to be A HAIR sticking out of the side of their brownie:
There’s really only one word that’s appropriate here, and that word is: Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. I don’t like my brownies to come with built-in floss, but thanks.
If that really IS a hair, it’s awfully wiry looking. That only amplifies my concern over where it might have originated. Finding a head hair in your food is gross enough, but encountering someone else’s pube on your plate is an entirely different dimension of horrifying.
The episode airs again at 11 EST on Valentine’s Day, so you can watch it and shudder with the one you love.
(Thanks for the pics, Paul!)
I was wondering where my old weave went!
Dear Food Network,
Suck Less.
Liz
I’m fairly sure there was a long, dark hair in Claire Robinson’s plattered boiled shrimp on the “BBQ without a grill” episode of “5 Ingredient Fix” a couple weeks ago too.
I’m sure that hairs frequently end up in or on the food that’s prepared by the long-tressed, hairnet-less cooks on FN. I get the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.
I’m with you CherryRose. I was sure there would be a loose hair or two on that recent epi of ICA with the big guy from Canada (Michael Smith?)and the avocado challenge. I got grossed out the minute he appeared in Kitchen Stadium.
Try New “Pubies”…the food choice of champions!
I think it is kind of catchy!
Nothing grosses me out more than detached hair.
except for attached hair.
egad!
I went to a well-renowned local soul food restaurant for lunch w/ my wife and a friend. I believe it was during mlk day weekend so the joint was packed. wife and friend received their dishes well in advance of mine being delivered. I was having chicken fried steak (and why in the world did it take so long – tis a specialty of the house) and dining companions were nearly finished before I even got started. lo and behold sitting right atop the gravy covered steak _ a curly kinky black hair! it grossed me out, but I removed it and ate the damn thing anyways. hell I was hungry and it was very very good.
This has happened to my family at Bob Evan’s TWICE! It happened to my sister and the joint gave her another plate, and all was forgiven. We went back a second time, however, and we instantly knew the hair on my plate wasn’t from any of us; the hair was long, silky and light brown and it was disgusting to pull it off my food. We never went back since (shudders).
I have to agree! Even tho we all get grossed out by a hair in our food from time to time, it’s the shit we DONT see that can pose a potential hazard. If it doesnt make it into my mouth, & I’m starving, I would do the same.
You could put a merkin on top of the throwee’s food and they’d still deserve to win over Bobby most of the time.
It’s manly Bobby Flay BBQ Fiber~!!!
The lucky charm certainly didn’t help Bobby Flay win. How many times have he lost a throwdown in a row? More evidence that his Iron Chef record is fixed if he can’t even beat ordinary cooks.
They make him lose on purpose.
FN found that most people think BF has an arrogant air to him, so they trumped up this show to show some humility on his part.
That way, they can keep his cookbook -show – forkware gravy train going and going…
His record is something like 28-57-1.
GROSS! I thought FN had an army of food artists waiting on hand and foot to prevent things like these from happening!
A hair a day keeps this viewer away.
Maybe it’s time for the FN to step up to the sanitation plate and have the hosts/cooks/horses-asses wear hair nets like the REAL food industry is required.
Or at least a fricken pony tail!
Someone seriously needs to do a little trimming down there. That thing is HUGE!
I’ve seen at least 2 hairs in Giada’s food, thanks to DVR. That’s what happens when cooks don’t wear hats/hairnets and females cook with their hair down. What is up with that? It bothers me so much!
I know! Giada is militant about not wearing rings when she cooks but her ironed out hair is swinging all over the place. And it looks like crap. Stick with the curls.
Non sequiter: Debbie is Korean.
Oh my, really?!?! Are you sure?!?!
Rumor has it….
We all know these TV chefs don’t follow normal hygienic guidelines, so shiz like this is bound to happen. But I’m surprised the food stylists didn’t catch that!
soo effin gross..I dont care….ugh!
I don’t see it.
I don’t see it either–just a few white spiky things sticking out from the right. Is that what we’re talking about here? Doesn’t look like hair. What am I missing?
You are missing the hair. The “white spikey” things are tips where frosting or cream pulled apart, so obviously they dont look like hair,because they are not.
The hair is clearly shown in all pictures but most visibly the third. These pictures are not the greatest resolution, but the show re airs and you can see for yourself.
Agreed. I didn’t want to say anything, but this one really IS kind of a stretch. We hadda magnify it 3 times or so to get a shot of something vague. Second, it’s not like a hair in food is THAT unusual–it happens in food preparation. While unappetizing, it’s not the end of the world.
No, it’s there, and it’s a hair, but I don’t think it’s a pube, or if it is, it’s not like one *I’ve* ever seen before.
Your title alone made me gag1
It’s just a little lovin’ from the oven!
Well, I could understand if it had been chocolate mousse…
I need Paul’s wife to read me the paper every day. Damn, what good eyes.
Gross. Hair in any food or a bit of bone in ground beef…total deal breakers. YEEECCCHHH!!!
No surprise here – we’ve all witnessed FN chefs cooking while sweat was trickling down their nose into the food, or repeatedly passing their fingers through the hair or cutting fingers and then continue to cook without a blink, as if they are not on TV and noooooobody can see them… so if these chefs do all these while recorded is it really any wonder that small and not so small food joints don’t reinforce proper handling of food?!
That looks like a finely manicured pube, but, Bobby Flay was involved so, it might be his version of parsley or mint decorating the plate.
mmmm yummers! Extra fiber!
Seriously, you can’t see it? How can you not see that giant hair looped out of the right side of the brownie in the 3rd pic?
Instead of saying that you don’t see it, so it must not be there– maybe think back to the last time you did the eye chart, because the hair is very obviously there, and now you just look like a giant ass hat… who probably consumes mass amounts of foreign hair.
someone forgot to add Nair to this recipe
Surprised not more people commenting on how extremely observant this is! Wow!
Anyway, that would be gross…but stuff happens :-P
I still don’t see the hair. But as far as the person who did see it, perhaps they have one of those gimongous home theater tvs where you can see EVERYTHING.
Hey Bobby ! What’s the last sound you hear before the pubic hair hits the brownie mix?…phuh!
As a major hairophobe, I can now no longer eat brownies or find pictures of food network food appealing.
As a long time VT resident, I can say it was probly in there on purpose. VT hippies (and there are lots) love organic and all natural crap!!! What is more natural?…..but seriously, get a grip! There are far worse things to find in your food…..
Judge Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill .., “Who has pubic hair on my Coke? …”
LOL!
Throw Up With Bobby Flay.
did anyone notice that the hair is on the challenger’s brownie and not Bobby’s???
oh yeah. That’s a pube, no doubt about it!