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Remember Jeffrey Saad? The guy who lost Next Food Network Star to Mommy McBacon, and then randomly became the spokesperson for eggs? He just announced on his blog that Scripps Networks is giving him a show too. Apparently, the executives there are now desperate enough to offer full time employment to people they once deemed chronically unworthy.
Saad won’t be on the Food Network, but on its bastard redheaded stepchild network – the Cooking Channel (aka the place where Food Network shows go to die). The name of the show? THE UNITED TASTES OF AMERICA, which, unfortunately for Saad, is one of the most cringe-worthy things I’ve ever heard. I can’t believe a bunch of people sat around a big table and decided that was the best thing they had come up with. What were the rejected titles? Saadurday Nights? Around The World In 80 Forks? Even those corny names are better than THE UNITED TASTES OF AMERICA. Come on, Scripps. Step it up. And get the guy a decent fucking microphone. What is this, 1988?
According to Saad, the show will “focus on one iconic food staple – donuts, burgers, pizza” and explore “the history, process, science and pop-culture significance of each item, along with a look at zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……”
Good luck, Jeffrey. We will be lovingly poking fun at you here, since Scripps bought CookingChannelHumor.com from under our noses.
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From the description of the show…they should have called it Unwrapped. Or re-wrapped.
I still think Aarti Party is the lamest name for a show.
I agree
That guy behind Jeffery looks pissed off!
Maybe he just smelled Jeffrey’s fart.
They can get equally good talent for less money if they hire those people standing outside of Home Depot do these lame ass FN travel shows.
I don’t understand FN’s fixation on American food. Celebrating America is great and all, but exploring international cuisine would be so much more exciting, like what Anthony Bourdain does.
That’s not in the budget, man.
Food Network tries to appeal to the lowest common denominator. In other words, you can’t dumb down International cuisine enough to appeal to the people Food Network is trying to attract. Remember, some of these people think that what Sandra Lee does is real cooking.
Not lamer than Aarti Party.
Sounds like they’re copying The History Channel with that concept.
I’m seeing a pattern here. Only the winner of NFNS can have a cooking show, but they can pick and choose any other finalist to have some kind of food related show that is not a cooking show. Guy Fieri gets to have both, how is that fair exactly? Anyway sorry Jeffrey but this show sounds like a snooze.
It sounds very similar to one show that used to be on FN. The name escapes me. They would look at the origins of a particular food: ice cream, donuts, etc. I just remember the host made me want to bang my head against the wall. He was way too hyper.
I sadly looked up the show. The secret like of and the hosts name was Jim O’Connor.
It sounds similar to a lot of FN shows.
If I remember right, he is the sincere, sensitive, serene, boring one. Maybe they broke him of that. Maybe this will be the most boring show on Cooking Channel besides those vintage Canadian, nonHD shows that are so low budget you feel like you are watching the Red Green show. Food Jammers comes to mind.
Food Jammers is so incredibly unwatchable. The crappy, too loud background music alone made me change the channel.
At least Red Green was entertaining.
Everytime I watch Food Jammers I keep thinking that the drug budget for that show could feed a small country.
“one iconic food staple”
ONE?!? Really? Only one? Yeah, like I don’t already know about iconic food staples.
Donuts, burgers, pizza? What are these things of which you speak? Never heard of them! Please, Scripps, do tell me about these brand new food items. And put it on THE COOKING CHANNEL, which is supposed to be about … COOKING! Not the history, process, science and pop-culture significance of food, no. Because that’s what Food Network Night Time is for. Thank God for the Cooking Chanel! Yay!
The whole reason why the bulk of us LIKED Saad on NFNS was because we thought he might bring some new dishes / ingredients to the network, perhaps even teach us about food we DON’T ALREADY KNOW how to cook.
*ugh* Such a shame.
Cooking channel also has a version of “The Best Thing [THAT I'VE EVER EATEN]” (is present tense so hard, FN?) a.k.a. “30 Minutes of Commercials for Various Eateries That Have Obviously Paid to be Featured on The Show (hosted by the fake foodgasms of FN’s celebrichefs).” I think it’s called “Unique Eats” or something, and it’s basically the same thing (but with FN rejects doing all the fakegasms).
*present perfect tense
I believe then in light of this it’s high time to put together a campaign to warn Brad Sorenson (from this year’s NFNS) to decline anything Scripps throws his way that either: 1.) has a lame title, 2.) is going to air on the cooking channel.
Also, without his long hair, I find him much less interesting.
Me too, the long hair was cool.
FN: go back to the ingredient-focussed concept, not yet MORE freaking Unwrapped/Secret life/DDD/Donuts and prepared not-even-semi-ho crapola.
I think the same thing.
about the hair :-)
Nothing against Mr. Saad, who was my choice for winner of his season on TNFNS, but here we go with another show on a supposed cooking channel which isn’t about… cooking?! Granted, I haven’t really looked much at the programing on The Cooking Channel, so maybe this isn’t unusual, but my impression was that this offshoot of The Food Network would be more about cooking and preparing meals, and less about lame reality shows, travel shows or pseudo-documentary shows. I gather I am wrong.
I’m confused. I thought they were already doing this with “Unwrapped”. Marc Summers is gonna be PISSED.
This title reminds me of Showtime’s The United States of Tara (a woman struggling with a multiple personality disorder). Apropos that Jeffrey’s talent with spices gets thrown under the bus for pizza and donuts. Don’t get it, but I like him, so I’ll watch once.
Golly, I thought it was just me! I immediately thought of that show when I saw the title! I know which one I’LL be watching…
Yup, totally reminds me of The Secret Life Of… and Unwrapped.
So you get me all excited about Jeffrey getting a show, and then I find out that the title isn’t the only lame thing about it? I would seriously love a cooking show hosted by him and I will watch this at least once because I like him, but I can’t imagine this becoming must-see tv for me unless I start to suffer from insomnia.
I like Jeffrey Saad and would be anxious to see his show. Finally they give a show to the deserving contestant.
Have you tried buying http://www.cookingchannelhumour.com? Since most of the shows on there are regurgitated Canadian FN shows, the British spelling of HUMOUR seems appropriate.
Great point! it is available, and just set up a link on this site…..
Idk, better to keep all the humor in one place, I think. I’ve never seen the cooking channel, either because I can’t afford to pay more for something I hear is terrible anyway. I’ll stick to PBS and the create network.
Create network is great. Lots of interesting shows (cooking and otherwise) to be viewed there.
I too am a fan of PBS, and ‘create’. there are some decent shows on there. and I have always liked Daisy martinez. though her stint on FN was short lived. I’d like to see her brought back.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the new jeffery look. Not sure if it makes him swanky, gay, or what. hmmmm new show sounds like a snooze fest. and I don’t even get cooking channel. so no love lost.
Hey! We bastard redheads take exception to being compared to the Cooking Channel.
Indeed so!
(Card-carrying member of The Red-Headed League)
Sorry have to take exception to you comment about the lamest name ever. Yes the united Tastes of America is bad. It is a step up from the name of Saad’s first show ‘The Spice Smuggler’. All that name brought to mind was cavity search.
Still can we really be surprised. These are the people that long ago thought Aarti Parti was a great name.
sounds like a rip off from another terrible show called “unwrapped”
I’d like to know why Jeff is using a mic with a cord.
Microphones with cords generally don’t suffer from interference from cell phones.
or interference from ‘big hair’.
I liked Jeff. Talented young man with a pretty hot jerri curl too.
Is this the guy that wanted to do the “Spice Smuggler” show? If so, that idea sounded 1000000x more interesting than yet another show on burgers & fries.
Totally.
This dilf is finally getting his own show!
I liked him on NFNS, but he is really lame on “United Tastes of America”. He tries way too hard, and you can tell he is trying oh so hard to be interesting and cool. Kind of like Guy Ferry. But unfortunately, like with Guy, it doesn’t work. And unfortunately for Jeffrey, his show is really boring unlike DDD. To be honest I love Triple D, but not because of Guy Ferry. They actually let the restaurants, people, and food be the star…you just have to put up with Guy Ferry’s annoying interfering in your enjoyment of the show on occasion but that can usually be tuned out thanks to tivo and DVR.
It’s a pretty crappy show. This Jeffrey guy is arrogant and annoying. He seems way to “good” for the people he is interviewing and doesn’t really let them talk. He just banters on and on… He seems very artificial and insincere. He tries to put depth and “artistic” spin on dialogues/monologues… sometimes a pb/jelly sandwich is just a pb/jelly sandwich. You’re a horrible host… you should probably just stick to your old job.