Om Nom Nom Nom TV

We cannot be the only household consuming copious amounts of TV dealing with food in some way. From Man Vs. Food to Iron Chef, to Top Chef and Worst Cooks--if the TV is on in our house, it's likely to be tuned to Food Network, the Cooking Channel, or the Travel Channel.

I'm not really interested in participating in any fandom for these shows, but I'd love to talk about them with someone. Surely you all have many thoughts about the various chefs that star in these shows and want to share them with me, yes?

Here are some of mine:

I used to really be annoyed by Bobby Flay. Something about him rubbed me the wrong way, and I hated how everything he cooks has to include corn as a main ingredient. LOL Watching him on Worst Cooks sold me on him, though. He has a great sense of humor, and he's really kind and encouraging with the cooks he mentors on that show. I get a similar vibe from him on Throwdown. I think I had seen him as being really pretentious, but it's clear on Throwdown how much he respects the people he's competing against. My opinion of him has completely changed.

My opinion of Anne Burrell has completely changed as well. I used to really like her; she always had such a positive attitude when working with Mario Batali on Iron Chef. And she was similarly cheerful and genuinely helpful in the first round of Worst Cooks that I watched her on (which I think was the round with Robert Irvine). But then something about her personality changed to me; she started to seem mean-spirited to me, impatient and arrogant. IDK if I had to have somewhere to shift that antipathy to Bobby Flay I'd been nursing or what LOL.

( Teal deer burgers ahead )

So what are your thoughts about these shows? *chin hands*