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I am not a great lover of snakes but I respect and love all creatures of God. Way back when my step-son was seven, he wanted a corn snake for his birthday. Dear dad got him one. It was a baby and looked like a pencil. See the photo. The second photo was taken about five years ago. He has grown more. I have no idea how long a corn snake lives. Well, the boy's mother hated the snake and refused in helping take care of it. Dad had to drive 25 miles every two weeks to feed it. Mom decided to flush the snake down the toilet when she was evicted. As I said I am not a snake lover but I could not allow her to do that. I told dad to go get the snake and we would take it. Fast forward to today when the step-son is now 32 years old and we still have Barney (his name). He is now just a tad bit bigger like about four foot long. I have learned how to accept him (or it). To be honest I am a dog lover and was a volunteer at the local SPCA for 17 years. I always joke that the snake is so very low maintenance. He gets fed every 2-3 weeks, never needs to go out for a walk, doesn't piss off the neighbors with barking, doesn't poop in the neighbor's yard, doesn't require toys, doesn't pee on the carpet. He has become a family member. A couple of years ago he gave us a scare. A visitor was looking at him and had taken the weights off the screen topper, leaving it a bit skewed. Of course he decided it would be a good idea to go exploring. It became quite the search looking for him. At that time we had two dogs. I was afraid one of them might have gotten old of him. Couldn't find a trace of the boy. About a week later I was pulling my car out of the garage. I noticed a funny orange pile curled up against the concrete wall on the inside of the garage. It was Barney and it was like he was frozen. This was in February so it was cold. We got him back into his tank with the heating pad going. He surprised all of us by thawing out and was as good as could be. He is fine and just shed over the weekend

We need to start a drinking game for every time the judges say "how important it is for the chefs to remember they are competing for $25000 dollars". I am so sick of hearing $25000.

Thanks, anymore time has no meaning, everyday is the same

was the second comfort food episode ever shown?

I would like to know just how they keep their walkie talkies charged, have batteries for the flashlights, have all that fuel (including diesel for the swat machine). They are out there wandering around yet seem to have all they need to navigate.

When they have another one of these "Beat (name of chef)", we need to start a drinking game. Every time the chef's name is mentioned, you take a drink. By ten minutes into the show you would be drunk as a skunk and passed out. I swear, they were saying Bobby Flay in every other sentence.

Do you have to watch the show live to be counted? I am unable to watch at nine so I DVR the show every Saturday.

I saw an update post about the goat on Dr. Pols Facebook's page. It was from the goat's owner. Poor baby passed away on the road home.

GZ is nothing but a pompous ass. He looks like a fool trying to eat food with chopsticks that really need a fork or spoon. He had the nerve to sit there and criticize the chef because the food was hard to eat. It was hard to eat with chopsticks, the other judges had no issue but of course they were using fork like normal people.

I have been watching this as well as my husband. I was surprised that hubby actually loves it. I like learning about the food of the area. Gordon seems to be enjoying himself. He is the complete opposite of the Hell's Kitchen personna.

Thank you

What do I need to do to see LCK?

The animation was something different. I sorta enjoyed it. The staff made the most of a bad situation. I give them credit for that. Talk about looking outside the box!!

The show last night was great. The work being done to save the Australian wild life was fantastic. The scene showing the reunion of mommy and baby kangaroo made my eyes water. Saving those animals is the right thing to do. Seeing Harold jumping off into freedom was another year inducing scene.

It was an entirely different Gordon. Good show. Sadly the virus shut them all down ttyl after all reopened.

I am sorry to say that this "Beat the Judges" series has been the most barf inducing series EVER. All that happy back slapping on how great the judges are got to me. It seems that the Food Network wants to make the judges into some sort of cooking gods. To bad the tasting wasn't a blind taste where the judges did not know who fixed what. I have seen other shows with blind tasting and the big name chef did not win every time. If not blind taste, they need to get three judges who have no show or interest in Food Network.

I had to laugh at my husband last night. His reaction to seeing Rostova was funny. He said "isn't she dead?" I am so sick of seeing her ugly face and am so over that storyline. Will somebody please deep six it? I watch the show since there is very little else on at that time. I sure as hell don't take anything seriously. The writing is terrible. I take this as something to entertain my brain.

All I can say is that this series of Beat the Judge has been cringe-worthy. They act like the judges are something short of a god and can do no harm. In competitions like this, the judging should be blind. The judges don't know who cooked what. Darn, right now I can't recall the recent series that had blind judging. Amazing how many times the "star chef" came up short on the votes. I have enjoyed Chopped over the years. I got to learn a lot about different foods I have never encountered. I learned some tricks about cooking an everyday food item. My respect for the show started to drop when they brought in Martha. She is a pretensive tweet. Then dear Geoffrey has to follow her example and look like an idiot by using chopsticks for everything. His "better than you" attitude makes me want to puke. Some of the current judges have been there for a long time. They need to clean the slate and bring in a bunch of judges who don't have their head up their ass. Tiffani still has some of her Top Chef attitude. If she lost that she might be passable.

That was one of the worse episodes I have ever watched. It was so full of inaccurate info concerning guns. Both my husband and I are members of the NRA. I am a 76 year old female, a retired electrical engineer and an Army veteran. I have my conceal carry permit. Whoever wrote that story certainly had a hard on against gun owners and purposely spewed out wrong information. No body would sell a person regardless of age, 30 identical handguns. OK, she passed the test that all gun purchasers must first take but a legit gun seller at a show does not act that reckless. We turned the show off about halfway through. Had to before I threw something through the tv screen. In the past I have been able to overlook such much garbage the show writers put out but this time they went way overboard.

I cook Brussels Sprouts almost every week. My husband loves them. I was shocked when I saw Lisa's dish. It looked so unappetizing. I felt sorry for her. She can do better than that but not sad she is gone.

Well, that episode last night was a disaster. One mistake after another in EVERY round. The winner was the one that made the lest mistakes. The dishes didn't look appetizing at all. Then there is GZ and his damn chopsticks.

HA HA I DVR it just so I have something new to watch when there isn't anything good on TV. A person can pick apart all the flaws but what the heck. Right now the viewing selections are rather slim. I did see a promo that The Blacklist will be back this month. Another show with terrible writing .

Last nights episode was really depressing, one of the worse that I have seen in some time. Of course some of the ingredients were barfing inducing. Really? Vegan Pork?

I just watched the SoBo segment this morning. Oh gag me. That owner is not playing with a full deck. Have no idea why the girl friend sticks around with such a loser. Unless of course he is good in bed. He was the most braindead person I have ever seen.

This is Chopped, not Cutthroat Kitchen. I want to see chefs do their best cooking. Not fighting over equipment. I feel it demeans the chefs.