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Food Network Humor Podcast: Episode 16
Posted on October 18th 2010 by Jillian Madison

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THIS WEEK: Aarti stinkin’ up the place on Guy’s Big Bite; Sandra Lee’s lame tailgating food, Next Iron Chef is meh, Melissa d’Arabian’s comment on Food Network Humor, Food Feuds, “celebrity chef” holiday window at Barney’s, emails, twitter questions, you know the drill!



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Other posts on Food Network Humor:

---Food Network Humor Podcast: Episode 15
---Food Network Humor Podcast: Episode 17
---Food Network Humor Podcast: Episode 14
---Food Network Humor Podcast: Episode 19
---Food Network Humor Podcast: Episode 2

    15 Responses

  1. Myrtle says:
    October 18, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    I hope the brownies will be SODALICIOUS!

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  2. Mark H88 says:
    October 19, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    Jillian, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for mentioning the nasty ass smell of Subway when you walk into Wal-Mart. I have been complaining about that ever since my town turned our Wal-Mart into a super Wal-Mart. It’s so bad that I will not enter the store on the side that’s closest to the Subway, I have to go in on the other side.

    And speaking of that smell. I take a yoga class that is in the same building as a Subway the smell is even worse. When you go into the stairwell, it hits you in the face like a dead skunk. The yoga teacher has to burn massive amounts of incense and it still doesn’t mask the smell. Truly horrifying!!!

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    • Brown Sugar says:
      October 19, 2010 at 7:55 pm

      Ha, Mark, cracking up about your comment! My Wal-Mart recently added a Subway which replaced the McDonald’s that was previously there, and also smelled like ass.

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      • Mark H88 says:
        October 19, 2010 at 11:57 pm

        Yeah, our old Wal-Mart had a McD’s as well, before it moved down the street and became the Super Wal-Mart. But I’d take McD’s smell over Subway any day!!

        I mean, I understand it’s the yeast smell from them making their own bread, but come on!! Does it really have to smell that bad all the time??? That’s just not natural.

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  3. Grady says:
    October 19, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    I like the podcast, but I’d enjoy it more if you all weren’t so negative. I thought the way you read Melissa’s email was sort of unnecessary—I mean, I thought she sounded nice and fun when I read her comments. It’s all in the tone. I mean, can’t we TRY to see (or in this case hear) the good in people, rather than just assuming the worst?

    As a fellow blogger, I understand the tendency to snark (esp here on FNH), but I’d enjoy these podcasts more if they could be a bit more lighthearted—just like the Food Network!

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    • Alexis says:
      October 19, 2010 at 11:50 pm

      really? I think the girls hold back and aren’t mean enough.

      bring on the viciousness! :)

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    • Mark H88 says:
      October 20, 2010 at 8:31 am

      I’m with Grady. I enjoy when people make fun of others, but when it’s mean spirited, it’s not that enjoyable.

      Jillian, definitely does her best to keep the “poking fun” as lighthearted as possible. I too don’t like when things are just over the top and vicious.

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    • Jillian Madison says:
      October 21, 2010 at 11:54 am

      Oh come on, Grady. The podcast IS negative. It says at the very beginning that we’re going to be MAKING FUN OF THE FOOD NETWORK. Does that sound positive to you? Making fun of people is about seeing the snark, not the good. LOL.

      And I don’t know how much more LIGHTHEARTED the podcast could possibly get. We talk about Bump-Its. We talk about smelly Subways in Wal-Mart. We talk about practical jokes we play on each other. That all seems pretty lighthearted to me! :)

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      • Grady says:
        October 22, 2010 at 1:52 am

        Whatever. I was speaking as a fan, so I hope you didn’t take it the wrong way! It just seemed to me that you were always assuming the worst about the personalities, which can be exhausting after a while. I mean, clearly you do like the FN, or else you wouldn’t blog about it, so I just wanted to see maybe a teeeeensy bit of fandom out of yall. Still, I love the site, will continue reading, and hope to hear more great stuff from all of you!

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  4. Scott Parker says:
    October 20, 2010 at 10:40 am

    Couldn’t agree more about Subway and Wal-Mart. It’s as if they’re trying to cover the smell of the homeless that trawl the Waterbury, CT WM with the rank odor of–whatever the hell that is wafting from Subway.

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    • Mark H88 says:
      October 20, 2010 at 2:30 pm

      I’m from CT too. I wonder if it’s just a CT thing? I wonder if it has anything to do with their headquarters being in Milford??

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      • Brown Sugar says:
        October 21, 2010 at 10:59 am

        No, we have Subways in our Wal-Marts in the Great Lakes region as well. And also homeless, but they’re not stinky. They’re frozen.

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  5. skidv25 says:
    October 21, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    I haven’t seen Food Feud, but when you described it, Pat’s and Gino’s in Philly instantly came to mind. It turns out that was a good guess, and the reason is that I’ve seen shows about this “feud” before!! How unoriginal!

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    • Mark H88 says:
      October 22, 2010 at 9:24 am

      Yeah, I’m glad Jillian talked about that show because I started to watch one of the shows and didn’t want to see the judgment because I too was like “What gives Michael Symon (or anyone, for that matter) the audacity to think they can claim who’s better??”

      That’s the whole point to food feuds…they two places are definitely best at what they do and the only reason why anyone would pick one over the other is solely based on personal opinion, so it’s B.S. to have anyone judge who’s best.

      There’s a huge pizza feud in one of the towns in my state and while they are both good, and while I have my own personal preference, I would hate to have someone come here and say that one place is definitively better.

      This show should be called “Which one does Symon prefer” and they need to stop the adds where he claims that his decision is the “Final / be-all” word in the matter. :/

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  6. Jaynie59 says:
    October 22, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Hey, Jillian, when you DVR The Cooking Channel you have got to make sure you watch the commercials. I’ve been watching since day one, and if the commercials are any indication it’s not doing so well in the ratings department. After all these months the vast majority of them are still promos and not actual paid ads.

    Even the promos are sandwiched between title cards for the network itself that take up what should be valuable air time. These promos are really bad. From the ditz who is all excited about the tag line about “food people” to the couple who put a pig in their bathtub, they are pretentious and stupid at the same time.

    The promos annoy the hell out of me when watching Julia Child because they have to edit so many minutes out the episode for the commercial breaks. Which would be fine if they aired real commericals that paid the bills. But they don’t. It’s just the same promos over and over again. It makes fast forwarding past the commercial breaks easier, but as far as I’m concerned it’s a shame when they have to cut Julia off in the middle of a sentence to air them.

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