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wow just from looking there was no competition between the teams. The blue team's meal looked so yummy and elegant.

that makes no sense at all. She started by telling Tom that part of her dish was a traditional dessert, and then she mentioned "chicken." Weird. I was just happy that Padma correctly called it afternoon tea, and not high tea. I'm so tired of hearing it called that (including to a political fundraiser I was just at). How on earth does Sara have time to pump milk? Amazing.

I get you. I can't remember his name either

It is a drug for type 2 diabetes. It does generally also result in modest weight loss, and yes, it has been reported that people are taking it who don't have T2D and it has in some cases caused shortages. There's another drug just approved (whose name escapes me) with perhaps even more effect on weight (but it is also not approved for weight loss, only T2D).

oh man yes. Yucky algae water! Four squares is supposed to remind us of Warhol? Um no. And while I was surprised to look up that Pollock was a 50s thing (he actually died in the 50s), I think he was pretty avant garde for the time and so it doesn't scream "50s." And Warhol really WAS a 60s thing.

I was surprised that Jai replaced buttermilk with coconut milk and expected it to work ok. Buttermilk has a particular use in baking from its acidity. I laughed when the judges said they couldn't taste the cream soda. When I first heard that was one of the choices, my first thought was that cream soda doesn't really have a flavor other than "sweet." (I guess it's a vanilla flavor) I also thought the car looked like an eye.

am I wrong? I think women have won all four seasons? Brooke, Maneet, Tiffany, Mei?

I had the same thought, though theoretically they don't necessarily know who (as in "the chef who cooks Indian food) won the semifinal, if they only know their OWN scores. But yeah, they probably know, especially since they know ALL the comments from the other judges, unlike the presumably edited remarks we see to keep the result hidden to some degree (though on this episode I wasn't the least surprised by any result).

for exactly that reason, I was glad she didn't win (again). She's awfully predictable.

I agree that she did herself a disservice by piling them, but I think in actual terms of deconstruction, hers actually was (she should have spread things around the plate instead.) What Maneet did was a bunch of different dishes. What "constructed" dish was she "deconstructing"????? Why was Nancy Silverton wearing a black trash bag?

The young lady has a mustache and is debating how to deal with it. She considers waxing and whatever else, but then looks and sees iconic people (Frida Kahlo and Freddy Mercury) and decides it's cool to have a mustache.

I keep seeing this ad for an app called "Front Door" where the song is a riff on "we built this city on rock and roll" with "I fixed this toilet on video." It sounds like the toilet had a truly tiny problem (unhooked chain I think, so hardly nobel prize winning difficulty). But all I could think is with a typical repair that I need to do, the guy on the video would have to tell me what to buy at the hardware store, then I'd video chat with him again and he'd tell me I bought the wrong thing, and then I'd chat with him again after my second trip to the store and he'd tell me to just use some tool I don't own, and.... you get the picture.

I know, it's crazy. One would think that if you have diabetes/kidney disease/thyroid eye disease not to mention cancer, that your doctor would know a bit more than you about what drug is appropriate.

Ah, you're right. I'm face blind, that's my excuse.

I don't know what you mean by "having the lives" but sara is the one who asked Victoire why she was wearing a mask, and when Victoire said because people were cooking with nuts, sara gave a rather sour look, like "you're being a prima donna," or something like that.

that always cracks me up. I know that they do this because that's the range of severity that the drug is meant for, but in reality, someone would say (well not really, but you know what I mean) "I have moderate XYZ disease." or "I have severe XYZ disease."

@bosawks in the live episode chat said "I’ve never had white borsch and I feel my life will be incomplete until I do." I looked it up and it is a traditional easter meal, where you take a bunch of items to church to be blessed and then you eat them. All the items have religious significance. While my Presbyterian church will not be blessing any food on Sunday, I do have all the ingredients already, so I think I know what we'll be having for lunch on Sunday!

I remembered that as soon as they mentioned VRBO. It was a similar set-up, with a lot of family-style dishes. I kind of snickered when the chef who cooked duck (I'm terrible with names) said it was a traditional dish for weddings because "ducks mate for life." And you are EATING MR DUCK RIGHT NOW.

I remember Damaris back from when I actually watched Next FN Star. I have a low tolerance for over-the-top personalities, and she seemed fine to me.

Re: balance of nature. Yes those ads run incessantly. I was curious so looked them up. They are EXPENSIVE, obviously because they are spending a fortune on advertising. As a person scientifically trained, I can't imagine they can get the "good stuff" of fruits and vegetables into a pill. For example, fiber. I don't know what's left that you can pack into a pill.

So Christian's macarons were flavored with honeysuckle. I have never heard of this used as a flavoring, though I have fond memories of tasting the flowers by the side of the road when i was a kid. Apparently you can buy this concentrate. Has anyone ever experimented with it? I imagine it would take a lot of little flowers to collect a jar of it-- or is it like truffle oil, and not really made from actual honeysuckle?

Thanks. I guess somehow I missed that woman one was elsewhere when she was looking at woman two and the little boy through the screen (I thought it was something like a nanny cam). I thought she was in the next room or something, which of course makes no sense at all.

I keep seeing this ad and can't figure out who the characters are. It's for some kind of home security system (ADT I think). One woman is installing it with a little boy, who she tells they need to be quiet because another woman is sleeping. It gets installed, woman two is sitting with little boy and woman one is watching on the security system. Woman two says "have fun!" to woman one (or maybe it's the other way around). Two moms? Where's mom one going? Why is she watching woman two and little boy on security system? I don't understand anything.

^ is it this product? Il Makiage

I thought Maneeet had a score in the 90s in the first round, but I'm too lazy to look it up. I'm not so fond of Maneet myself.