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What’s the most awful-to-sit-through thing on the Food Network right now? That’s easy! It’s the unfathomably obnoxious Ten Dollar Dinners promo with Melissa d’Arabian!
If you haven’t seen it (and I don’t even think that’s possible unless you’ve been in a coma), here’s some video. Roll that beautiful bean footage!
The first time I saw it, I cringed. The second time I saw it, I hit the mute button faster than Anthony Bourdain to a Chase Sapphire card. The third time I saw it, experienced severe light-headedness and tingling in all of my extremities. And now, every time I see it, I feel the uncontrollable need to clutch a sofa cushion and roll into the fetal position. It’s just that bad.
AND NOW, FNH PRESENTS:
THE TOP TEN MOST ANNOYING THINGS
ABOUT THE NEW TEN DOLLAR DINNERS PROMO
10. THE MUSIC. I like techno as much as the next girl, but come on. I thought I was watching the Food Network, not a scene of Brian Kinney getting blown in a nightclub bathroom on Queer As Folk.
9. “WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE HOW MANY TIPS I HAVE UP MY SLEEVE!” I don’t think those are “tips” she has up her sleeve. They’re probably just pieces of frozen bacon.
8. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS.” Really? Now magicians are pulling burnt cassoulets out of pots instead of white rabbits out of hats? Who knew!
7. THE WAY SHE GASPS AT THE PLATE OF NORTH AFRICAN MEATBALLS. Calm down, honey. It’s a meatball, not a winning Powerball ticket. (But then again, I’d probably be gasping for breath if someone put those things in front of me, too.)
6. “WAIT UNTIL I TELL YOU MYYYYYY SECRET!” Like how to effectively reduce birth pain with concentrated breathing techniques?
5. “I’LL PUT YOUR COOKING TALENTS ON THE MAP!” Dear God. That’s sooooo lame, it literally hurt to type it.
4. THE FLASHING STROBE LIGHTS. Are they trying to give us all a stroke?
3. THE SHOTS OF HER STUFFING HER FACE WITH HER RANK FOOD. No one needs to see that. No one.
2. “WELCOME TO MY WORLD.” Thanks, but I won’t be going anywhere near your world unless it’s with earplugs and a bottle of strong vodka.
1. THE HIDEOUS, TOOTH-REVEALING GIGGLE AT THE END. This is the stuff nightmares are made of, folks.
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---Twitter Conversations: Melissa D’Arabian’s $10 Dinners
---Proof Melissa D’Arabians Dinners Don’t Cost Ten Dollars
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112 Responses
PUKEY.
Don’t know if that’s a word, but it fits Mommy D’earest.
ugh
“I’m Gumby, dammit!” Holy gingivitis! She’s all gums.
first thing I noticed too… she’s flashing more gums than teeth!
I think those horse teeth are cheap veneers on her real teeth that must have been really terrible.
I’ve heard of people cutting the vocal chords of dogs so that they don’t bark. Can they do that for hyaena screams like Melissa’s?
omigod i have never laughed so much in my life…. A BOTTLE OF STRONG VODKA, i agree. i can’t STAND her!!! her teeth are like the rabbit in that awful twilight zone that was possessed and shit! and she looks crazily into the camera like she’s trying to hypnotize us, to make us watch her horrifying attempt at appearing to know how to cook, it’s sad. and the hyena laugh is frightening, i cringed when i heard it… the gumby comment below was hilarious, i died laughing
It troubles me no end that a search for an Ina Garten recipe on the FN website will indicates that I might enjoy “Ten Dollar Dinners” with Ms. D’Arabian. Say what? Since when is ME-lissa in the same league with the Barefoot Contessa?
…appropriate since her first recipes were Ina retreads. Ina should invite her over for le Parisian dejeuner, oui?
They do that to boost hits & ratings I imagine.
Urgh, I saw that the other day and was horribly mesmerized. Horrimerized. LOL
“Horrimerized”–what a great (and accurate) word, Lauren!
The number 1 reason is why I cringe. That mouth does not deserve a close-up.
I rate it right up there with “the best *blank* I’ve ever eaten” promo.
Agreed! Plus it’s all shiny from the lip gloss and her gums look like Axl Rose’s from the “Welcome to the Jungle” video, he was/is a drug addict. Flashbacks frighten me!
*chuckle* *snicker*
Axl Rose…too funny.
and the sound that comes out of her is weird too!
I can’t help but think that Axl is a better cook.
*thanks god food network canada does not run this show*
Zach, FN Canada do run this show on Sunday mornings I’m afraid. If this is the best TNFNS can do, TV is in big trouble.
“TIPS up my sleeve!” Tips, tips tips. THAT’s what she said. I could have sworn it was something else … which didn’t make any sense at all ….
thx for the transcription.
;-)
I heard the same thing! I was like..isn’t your show a “family” show??
This show is complete and utter garbage
Ok good, I had the same reaction too!
I’m so with you. Watching this commericial makes me want to stay far, far away from her TV show. Especially the opening, it looks like middle-aged soccer mommy trying to be a fashion model.
“..it looks like middle-aged soccer mommy..”
I’m not quite sure what demographic ME-lissa appeals to or what group FN targets for “Ten Dollar Dinners”. The promo is all over the map and suggests that FN hopes that someone – anyone – will watch this lame-brain show.
I actually hadn’t seen it. I LOVE DVR! No commercials at all for me. =)
I actually HAVEN’T seen that. I hope I’m in a coma. I really do.
I watched the Adam Gertler interview with her where they show her on her cell phone with her kids asking, “Are you my little pumpkin dootle?” When they responded she was soooo excited! Must have been practicing for when they announced her the winner of The Next FN star.
Ah..the eerie giggle/cackle at the end is traumatizing.
I can’t quite put my finger on what makes this woman so annoying to me…I think it has to do with her facial expressions and the way she says things. I just find her uber-annoying. Even back in the NFS competition last summer. I mean, I’m sure she’s a perfectly nice person, she’s just super annoying to watch/listen to.
(Meant NFNS)
I agree. I can’t blame the production or all the menus on her, but she is just plain unwatchable.
The trying too hard, the super mom, the fake. It all adds up to a completely horrible show.
Channel surfing yesterday. Have not watched F/N since “Worst Cook” made is debut. This Kate Gosselin clone is yet, another reason, I cannot watch this channel anymore. She made Cassoulet–I mean “Fauxoullet”–this conconction she said was Cassoulet was garbage with a fancy name–no sausage–no–whatever. Perhaps someday FN will do a revamp of this channel and actually come up with HELPFUL and DECENT cooking shows. UGH. She IS Kate Gosselin.
I’m so glad to know that I’m not the only one who is totally annoyed by this promo commercial. I can’t hit the mute button fast enough when this comes on, so I just change the channel to avoid anymore unwanted trauma. More evidence that Food Network has jumped the shark.
Buck Teeth must’ve been on sale, next to bacon.
Hardie har har!
Every time I see her display her teeth I feel like running out to get her a bit and bridle ( though I have to say I’ve never seen a horse with that ugly a mouth).
Is she a working mother making family meals, or is she a gourmet chef? They can’t decide. Working mothers don’t make cassoulet or North African meatballs, and working mothers don’t try to apply a ridiculous dollar amount to each meal with so many exceptions to the calculations that it’s invalid.
A passive and irritating personality combined with the pretentiousness of trying to make French and other complicated cuisine “approachable” is nothing but Amy Finley V. 2.0, and we all know how well that went the first time.
Exactly, Scruffy! Can someone explain to me why the reviewers for Melissa’s recipes on the FN website are all wetting their pants over how great they think she is, yet they condemned Amy Finley for the exact same things? I smell a skunk.
I, for one, would greatly welcome genuine recipes from any other country outside the U.S., but clearly Melissa is not the one to provide us with this. PBS, for all its faults, is light years ahead of Food Network on this.
You nailed it Betty Crocker. The people yahoo’ing Melissa as the 2nd coming MUST BE FN employees. Try putting up a real review (that’s negative, because her food is horrid) and you’ll get abused by those same people, really vicious retaliation. Just as Scruffy said, Melissa = Amy Finley = Tuschman’s 2nd failure!
“..people yahoo’ing Melissa as the 2nd coming..”
Since you’ve alluded to “second coming”, it occurred to me when I read BC’s post that ME-lissa might have a following from her affiliation with a religious group.
D’Arabian isn’t a gourmet chef, nor is her food “family friendly”. What mother gives young children a raw kale salad? If ME-lissa really serves this dish to her little ones, she darn well better know the Heimlich maneuver!
Re: Meatballs – maybe she thought she had baked her Ben-Wa balls? Just a thought…
Awesome visual…
I have absolutely hated this promo from the first time I saw it. Forget the fact that Melissa D. is annoying as hell, who wrote the script for the shoot? “I think the world’s ready!” Ready FOR WHAT?!?!?!?!!?! Knock-off recipes and crap money tips? Does it take a genius to figure out that buying chicken on sale will save you money versus buying it at regular price?
And the whole “welcome to my world” comment just bothers me. First, because she mentions “world” in two sentences back-to-back, which makes the FN people (and her) SOUND like idiots, but second, what is it about her world that makes it so intriguing? I am the mom of 4 young kids, too, but I don’t watch FN, or any cooking show for that matter, to see people who are just like me! I can whip up a quick, and cheap meal too. I watch cooking shows to gain insight, and sometimes (with the right chef) to learn something. FN hasn’t quite sold me yet on what Melissa has to offer. She might fit into a certain demographic that FN wants to tap into, but I still don’t buy her and her “world”.
The ad, like the chef, is bad news!
Oh, how I long for the early days of FN when they featured talented, serious chefs who used original recipes and actually taught me something. Where are David Rosengarten, the Two Fat Ladies, Sara Moulton, and Two Hot Tamales? They are head and shoulders above the crop of talentless clowns on today’s FN.
I’m afraid that the FN of yesteryear has come and gone, Holly. Sad but true. Food Network has dumbed down to the point where no reputable chefs want to be affiliated with such garbage.
Two Fat Ladies – sigh. That was a great show. I enjoyed the old English crockery (cornwall pottery, etc) as much as the cooking.
Except for Rosengarten, I agree. He’s a poseur.
I too mourn the death of the Food Network. Putting people into a contest, then annointing the winner as a master chef doesn’t work. Bring back the real chefs; Mario, Emeril, Sara, Ming, etc., and get rid of these ridiculous wannabes.
Is it just me or does it seem like Melissa is trying not to vomit on her own recipes when she’s taste testing? Wonder what’s going through her mind?
“Gah!! This smells and tastes like dead animal ass!”
The entire “tasting” schtick at the end of “Ten Dollar Dinners” is silly and unnatural. By the time that ME-lissa plates her completed dishes, the components that should be hot are probably no longer hot, the glops of different foods look unappetizing, and the portions look terribly sparse on her small plates.
I totally agree. I don’t notice this as much with the other FN shows, but it really seems stilted and just disgusting on Melissa’s show.
That’s because her origins are from the species that regurgitate on their food before consumption.
It baffles me as to what she’s laughing about. At her own food?!
The thing that drove me the most nuts about this promo, honestly, is her standing in front of the set.
When the new season premiered, I knew the set was bigger and deeper than those on the other Food Network studio shows. I even occasionally saw cars driving past the window in the back. I wondered if they had filmed this in her real house to make her more at home and in her comfort zone.
Then they release this promo, clearly showing that the whole thing is in a studio.
Why go to ALL THAT TROUBLE to make it look so unlike a studio, more like a house, just to give it all away in an endlessly-repeated promo? Whatever “genuine” cred she gained from it flew right out the window. How stupid.
I used to wonder the same thing about Robin Miller’s show until I noticed it was the same couple of cars over and over.
I was watching this show for entertainment value. After this week’s episode, after I’d heard “layer of flavor” at least six times in ten minutes I vowed to shut it off and not tune in again. This woman is a broken record. Layers of Flavor. I like to keep this in the freezer. I like to buy this on sale. My girls help with this by…Blah blah blah. I’m waiting for other people to notice one hilarious thing about her: anytime she’s tasting her slop, please pause the show for a minute. Her facial expressions always look like she’s about to throw up. There may be a smile on her face, but her eyes/cheeks and nose say it all. Try it. It won’t get old for at least two episodes. :)
Those all sound like great ones for the “Drinking Game” thread on this site, DPMindy, especially Melissa’s facial expressions when tasting her own crappy food. Hilarious!
Yeah..the “layers of flavor” thing had me throwing layers of blankets over my head so I couldn’t see or hear her. What about the “tender” she used to describe the crepes? THAT darn near finished me off. This woman is nothing more than a waspy paula deen.
I saw this on TV about 30 seconds ago — came here hoping you had commented on it — and I was not disappointed. This ad is horrifying!!
Oh and the other thing that bothers me about this ad is the “endless amount of ideas.” I’m not usually a stickler for grammar or a walking thesaurus, but something about Melissa and her “amount” of ideas rather than a “number” of ideas grates on me everytime I see the ad. It just sounds awkward and stupid.
In the second picture, evidently she’s just found out that she’s been chosen to receive a free year’s supply of carrots and sugar cubes. Willllbburrrrr …..
Does anyone watch her show???? I watched it once, boring.
What got me was the off screen voice saying ‘I think the world is ready?’ Really? With everything going on this is what we need, endless references to frozen bacon?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I think this is a great way to save money. After all, who wants to spend $20 a ticket at the new “Nightmare on Elm Street” when you have it all in a horrifying 30-second commercial?
I watched her show last Sunday and the only thing I could think about the entire 30 minutes was, “I wonder if she’s pregnant. She looks pregnant”. Not that it makes any difference whatsoever, but I found myself paying close attention whenever they shot her entire body.
She does come across as a very likable person, but I agree with Castle4Mom: What is her schtick? Is she giving me tips? Knock-off French food? Food for kids? Money-saving meals? Meals for working mothers? WHAT?!
I, too, thought she looked pregnant.
I’ve thought she looks pregnant before as well. Maybe she just has terminal Mommy Pooch Gut. (NO judgments there, as I do as well :/ )
Great post/review of Melissa from Sue/Lakewood, CA who posted: “I love the fawning way most everyone rates these recipes of Melissa’s…no matter what she puts out.. you’re going to rave over it…I think Melissa could soak a Brillo pad in chocolate and present it as dessert and you folks would give it 5 stars…”
Ha ha! I assume you’re talking about a recipe review on the FN website? What recipe is that review posted on?
Winter Kale Salad (YUK!) from Steak Dinner episode. Sue posted on 2/16 – 4th review.
Thanks! Just found it. I totally agree with her post about all the idiots fawning all over Melissa, but I have to say I actually like raw kale, though I’m sure I’m in the minority on that. It does make a big difference how fresh it is and what kind you get. I like the dinosaur, a.k.a. lacinato kale (also sometimes called black or “nero” cabbage) the best.
It’s still an “acquired taste,” though, and it definitely will always have some bitterness, so I would never consider it to be kid-friendly. So much for Melissa’s supposed demographic. In any case, Melissa is clearly not offering us anything new.
All the food she makes has the same rusty, brown color. The yellow tone that shades the camera lens on her show certainly does not help. It looks like a show from the 60′s, which makes me miss Sara Moulton, which is very tragic.
FINALLY! I was looking for this on youtube to show people on the forums D: The beginning scares the crap out of me. I do not want to be ready to her world!
Thanks so much for uploading this Jillian!
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. The most obnoxious promo on the Food Network is the “Competitive Cooking” one, which includes the lyrics, “Hey everybody if you walk the walk, you gotta back it all up, can you talk the talk.” The fact that the common colloquialism is reversed shows that the creatives involved and the management that approved this spot both “walk to the beat of [their] own drum.”
This seriously bugs me more than Mellisa ever could.
This actually came up previously on this site; I can’t remember now if it was on the main FNH page or in the forums. Turns out that this reversal of the words came from a 1995 Poe song. Whether Poe intentionally reversed the words or not, I don’t know. I did a little research just now and discovered this hilarious post about it in a recent blog: http://www.youaredumb.net/archive/all/2010/1/8
In any case, I agree with you, Obi-Wan–that jingle is extremely annoying, and Food Network plays it CONSTANTLY.
I’m so sorry that you know those lyrics by heart :’( As soon as I read that the tune struck in my head. The horror.
I just always feel like she’s bragging…Her French husband, her kids, her trips around the world…it’s immediately off-putting. I don’t want to watch her show b/c I don’t like someone rubbing my shitty life in my face.
And I think I will bust out my Queer As Folk DVDS. Brian Kinney is HOT.
Oh yeah, Brian Kenney…Did you see that movie The Unseen? He and Michelle Clunie played a couple in that movie. It was a little weird to me to see them kissing and stuff after years of watching there characters pretty much hate each other on QAF.
No, I didn’t! I refuse to believe he’s straight. It breaks my heart to think that he and Justin aren’t living in sin somewhere in Canada!!!
I also liked how they glamour up the whole thing. Your having a meal for $2.50 how glamorous is your life going to really be? Are you jetting of to Tahiti as soon as you’ve put the bacon back in the freezer?
Ah, the stuff that nightmares are made of….
She lived in france.
True story.
But did she LIVE in France? Because, you know, I’m not sure. I think I heard her say that but I don’t know for sure.
I also think I heard somewhere that Debbie Lee is Korean. Just thought y’all might want to know that.
She lived and worked in France and that’s where she met her French husband. She seems like a nice person to me. And the bit about her bragging about her French husband, kids, etc., well, when she was on the Next Food Network Star I recall that Giada, for one, always said and continues to say that they should tell the audience about themselves, share things to draw them in. Do you really think she wrote the script for this promo? I doubt it. She’s doing and saying what the FN people tell her to do. I tried some of her recipes and they were really good. I think she’s very attractive and has beautiful white teeth. Don’t be so cruel and judgemental.
I had a epileptic fit due to the strobe lights. Does anyone know of a good lawyer?
Isn’t D’Arabian supposed to be pronounced “DUH rabian” and not “DEE arabian”? (Also, what kind of last name is that? French?)
maybe she has the same agent as guy FEEE ETTT EEEE. either that or there is a roulette wheel in the breakroom of the writers for these shows where they spin and whatever crazy ill pronounced combo it lands on, thats whats decided!
Ha! I’ve wondered about that too, Goober. It’s gotta be French, in which case it would be pronounced the way you first put it. Interesting that we never see any photos of her husband (which is presumably where her last name comes from), because in French this translates something like “of Arabia.” I would logically assume, then, that her husband is French with an Arab (or, more likely, North African) background. But she probably doesn’t want her idiotic fans to know that last part, because it wouldn’t fit with her Miss America Suzy Homemaker Wonder Bread image. So she gives us a recipe for “Moroccan” meatballs using beef instead of lamb. Nice way to respect your husband’s ancestry, Melissa.
I hate Fake shit, and she’s the fakest and the shittiest. I hate most of Food Network now because of that.
What the hell is she laughing at? Did she just catch her attempt at a real cooking show?
the urban dictionary entry for “roll that beautiful bean footage”:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Roll%20that%20beautiful%20bean%20footage
people are strange.
also, this commercial plays 8 BILLION times a day.
the only thing the world is ready for is for her to crawl back to her smurf blue kitchen and stfu. why oh why does her hideous smile remind me of an alien about to chase after sigourney weaver? james camron himself couldnt have created anything more horrifying than melissa d’iwouldrathereatfeces. i swear the music in this video is enough to make a decepticon self implode. i hope she sets herself on fire while cooking this slop.
basically, i wish i could erase all memory of her existence from my mind.
Am I the only one who heard her say at 0:14, “Wait til you see how many tits I have up my sleeve”?
I totally want to see a video of that final laugh done in slo-mo and overdubbed with an evil villain laugh. It would be so apropos.
Why does Melissa’s show get shot with more light filters than when Barbara Walters is on camera? It’s really off putting when they show The Best thing I ever Ate promos during the commercial break, being pure white and sharp, then you go back to her set with the filters and it has a very yellow look to it.
i was WAITING for you to post about this. it is literally disturbing and if i didn’t loathe the sight of her with a passion i would be embarrassed/feel bad for her. <3 your site!
Since her recipes suck, they’ve got to sell the public something. In this case, an “image”: so nice, so cute and giggly, so friendly, so helpful with all those tips, and such a role model.
(excuse me while I throw up…)
I watched one of her shows recently, to see if she really was as bad as she seemed to be last year. Bad, bad, unbelievably bad. And sad – to see someone go down in flames to this extent.
My only remaining question is should we call her Mommy Dearest, or Mommy Dumbest??
I wonder if this post actually worked…I haven’t seen the ad since it went up.
I hate to disappoint you, ADITL1979, but I saw the ad at least a dozen times yesterday.
I just found this forum and I must say that I’m glad I did. I hope to bring something to the community as I have already found some interesting topics.
Hailing from the Dirty South (United States for those that don’ know).
Why in the world does FN film her show with that horrible lighting that makes everything look old, dated and fuzzy? It seems like they want her show to get cancelled as soon as the next FN Star show comes on.
She sure has gained weight, hasn’t she.
“I thought I was watching the Food Network, not a scene of Brian Kinney getting blown in a nightclub bathroom on Queer As Folk.”
DEAD
This site & these posts have made my heart happy! Her promo, her face, her beyond irritating voice and her crap food make me ill. When she shows her teeth in that promo all I can of is the horse on Mr. Ed…..But to me, the worst of it all is that FN RENEWED her for second season of her disgusting show! I disliked her from day one on the NFNS….she is phony as the day is long. Then to talk crap about her mom passed away so she’d get the sympathy put the icing on the cake. IG said that ME-lissa just “glowed”…so does someone being electrocuted but its not a pretty sight!!
#5, which I cannot type without hurling, is so indicative of her misplaced arrogance. She’d better GET some cooking talents of her own before bragging she can improve someone else’s. A few ORIGINAL recipes and “tips” that are not so tired that anyone with a half a brain has not already read or heard them a dozen times would be good also. Simply ripping off another recipe and trashing it down into garbage is not original (or should I say INVENTING since this idiot misuses that word all of the time).
I actually had not seen this promo. After FN renewed her show, I stopped watching them completely. In fact, I no longer watch ANY of the Scripps stations and will not until they clean house at FN and stop pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I hadn’t even heard of her until this morning, when I saw her show listed on a sidebar on the FN website…and I immediately wanted to kick her in the throat. I had a similar idea a while back, but it was more along the lines of, “here’s a $10 bill, go get food.”
I’ve only seen short segments of her shows, and can’t imagine how she’s actually making these dishes for ten dollars. Not only that, but who exactly is eating this stuff? Fennel cole slaw? Cranberry orange parfait? That’s dinner? She needs to seriously consider her demographic. I would imagine if you’re trying to feed four people for ten bucks, at least two of them are kids, and they’re sure as hell not going to eat fennel and cabbage.
Have you seen her FB page? She addresses the whole living in France, visit to Tunisia thing. That’s where she went to college. Oh, but she spent all her money doing it and didn’t have a bed to sleep on when she got back home, so she really is just as poor as the rest of us. Suuurrree.
Between Amy Finley’s lukewarm performance and Mrs. D’Arabian’s horsefaced snickering, I’d say FN’s standards have not just dropped, they’ve been kicked down into the Black Hole of Calcutta.
I’m glad it’s not just me who finds this woman horribly obnoxious. How she won the contest I’ll never know.
Has Melissa’s show been canceled? Why is Melissa allowed to knock off Ina’s recipes? Is Melissa pregnant? She sure looked like she had another bun in the oven the last time I saw her.
Melissa is downright annoying. I can’t stand her big horse teeth, her cackle and her verbal expressions.
Does anyone else consider a one-course meal dinner? Do any of you out there like to see an occasional salad or vegetable? How many of you can throw a Superbowl party and have four guys eager to share ONE BEER?
Her recipes are not unique and they cannot be made for $10. When I cost the recipes out, even buying in bulk or on sale or from the markdown cart of rotten day-old food, I can’t come in for less than half again the cost.
I love it when she makes a meal with 3/4 pounds of ground beef and declares that there will be leftovers.
She was the worst contestant on the program last year. She was even worse than the woman from Dallas from the previous year.
People were complaining that Jeffrey used weird ingredients but he was AHEAD of the TIME and TRENDS. I have seen his mystifying harissa ingredient everywhere I look. The FC really missed out in not making Jeffrey the winner.
I am looking forward to the new cooking channel. It looks like they will have a lot of ethnic cooks. Maybe they will get smart and have Jeffrey do a show.
She doesn’t deserve Sunday lunch time show. As her program ruins my Sunday, I haven’t watched Foodnetwork on Sunday since she took this slot…
Why why WHHHHYYYYYY did they let this chick win the next food network star?! She doesn’t deserve it. She’s not any good (I’m a novice cook and my food looks better than hers), she didn’t even perform that well on the show, and she’s basically another Sandra Lee. We already have her Money Saving meals show.
And yes, that commercial is repulsive, it almost gave me diabetes.
I can’t stand to watch her show, and I love cooking shows! Here’s the problem… She overacts on excitement, the dishes are soooo lame, it’s as if her mind is elsewhere and she’s trying to race through the whole thing, the eye contact is not genuine …it’s as if someone in the background is reminding her to look up. The show is boring and the promotions are too much “…. Infinite possibilities” I trick to making you think the show is something it’s not. Now Big Daddy’s House, that’s a show worth watching…. Fun and I can’t wait to see what he’s cooking.
Hilarious recap. Babylon!!! Ok, how the hell is anything she does under $10? Even the speed she’s on costs more than $10 a pill.
Don’t they have enough giggly female cooks/chefs on FN?
The way she said “welcome to my world” is just so creepy…she kind of had the crazy eye when she said it, too.