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Something that I haven't mentioned before in any of this season's threads.... who started the whole "clink clink clink clink" nonsense when they toast? I always hear Nicole the most, but then she's just the loudest voice. Do people really do/say this in real life? Whenever I am toasting with others, we touch glasses if we can. Sometimes if one person is out of reach, they'll kind of stand up to reach. If it's a large group, we just touch glasses with those nearby and it's like a wave down the table. In any case everyone raises their glass, but no one is say "clink clink clink clink".

I was thinking the same thing if I saw a huge group of people in matching shirts with their names on them (another TLC show). You know they would expect everyone to bend and scrape and kiss their feet. It would be miserable to be around them.

The only thing I can say good about the first episode..... Glad that the Crepe truck won the biggest ticket challenge. Khana thought they had it in the bag. Just started watching second episode. Any other truck that lost a member had to limp along to the next elimination and go home a man short. I was trying to think if there had been a team with some issues and they self-ejected from the competition or if they just imploded and lost that week? Did you know Khana is a Pakastani food truck? Have you ever seen a Pakastani food truck before? Did you know they cook Pakastani food? Have you ever eaten Pakastani food from a food truck before? Did you know Khana is.....

No. She's just a really fertile Myrtle with a really full quiver. [eta: /s]

That is one of the standard reality show voices that drives me to distraction. Also, the breathy-nasally-adenoidal sounding voice like Dom. I.can't.even.with.those.

Not being from that area, I only could come up with a couple things off the top of my head. That's quite an impressive list and yes, they sound very "Northeast-y" to me. My friend from Buffalo is always talking about beef on weck and sponge candy among other things that escape my memory at the moment.

When I think of regional foods from the Northeast, I would think Philly cheesesteaks, Maine Lobster, Maryland crabcakes, Boston chowdah. Before the Internet and people being more mobile, moving and traveling around the country bringing their cuisines we had more regional divides with each having different specialties only found there. Something that made them unique. I see that kind of stuff usually around fast food or other restaurant chains. People move to different states and wish they had the chains or brands from their "home state" and companies oblige by expanding to those areas. Everything is becoming more homogonized.

Hours to do all the investigations? I didn't think about how long resets would take. That would give the early teams quite an adavantage to sit and talk/think about what to make. I was thinking the other day of pulling up one of those websites you can input different ingredients into and have it give you possible recipes you could make when watching the show. Punch in the things they find that look like they were used. If they had time to look up a recipe on the Internet, who's to say they couldn't use one of those websites. Maybe they do have some access to cookbooks for recipes?

I always thought that if possible, twins, triplets, etc. would be placed in different classrooms in public schools. The school would separate them?

She needs someone to show her that you can be sexy and show off your figure without showing all that skin. Just because you're squeezed into a gownless-evening strap, doesn't make you look sexy.

She can say or respond to "Hello" and then it's all downhill from there.

I'm still trying to make my way through it. I cannot stand the nasally, breathy, whining sound of Dom's voice. That type of voice is something that sets my teeth on edge and I hear it in a lot of other reality contestants. That green dress is better suited to a 40+year old, waning Hollywood celebrity. It makes her look huge in all the wrong places. [eta: the dress was ill-fitted too the way she kept having to try to pull it back up and messing with it.]

No surprise there. It will be a toss up who loses someone next week. Then the week after that, it will be the other team to even things out. 🙄

Having the pits or peels from fruits would be a good clue for the trash. I think the clue for plums was the calendar date and seasonal fruit picture and note to make something seasonal so they wouldn't need pits or peels. For the cherries, they were there on the counter and one pair thought that was what was smeared on the apron. Something I wondered about, do they completely reset the kitchen each time? What happens if someone picks the raspberry seeds off the smear on the apron - the next group(s) would only see a red smear? The other thing that made me wonder about that is if they stick fingers in things to taste or lick spoons, etc. The clues might be slightly different (eg the saltine cracker lump in the food processor, one team saw it and the others didn't notice it or was it there?).

When the guest walked into the door, the stews were down below in the Galley or other crew area. I remember seeing Daisy turning her volume, probably down. That's why they didn't hear the call. They were all too busy yakking together.

That would be interesting. Given some of their behavior or attitude towards the other trucks, maybe they took their "friendly competitive rivalry" a little too far?

Ok. Anyone know the scoop on the Khana controversy coming up next? "Never happened before" couldn't just be someone quit and they continue on with 2 or a whole truck is eliminated.

I agree. Who would eat a cinnamon coffee cake crumble of oats on top of a chocolate brownie? Caramel and pecans I could see.

How scripted is this competition? The people have to make something with some random, weird ingredients from a game. Then the dish they are making has some other weird things you wouldn't think of as a staple, pantry/fridge ingredient. There didn't seem to be that extensive of a pantry/fridge to "shop" from.

I knew she was a goner the nanosecond she opened her mouth and cut Gordon off at judging.

I missed the beard color matching his hair because those earrings disturb me.

I'm glad The Block went home. Like everyone's said they were just too much. Also, I noticed that they showed the dinged up "shelf" on the truck after the crash but at judging, the shelf looked fine. Also, more shenangins in editing when the group went back to the store for water and ice for lemonade it showed them in the store with a huge cart full of food and then back to the truck with just the ice and water. I noticed that the crepe truck has their own special logo crepe cups yet everyone else has plain red checker paper dishes. As usual, I think the prices they charge are insane. The Block was selling 2 wings (4 normal "wings), a scoop of guacamole, a few chips and some corn mess for $20? To me, that didn't even seem like a cohesive dish or meal. More like 3 appetizers in a bowl.

I think the "where are they now" was more of them following the couples after the show for a few episodes.

These shows are so far behind real time. I looked up their online store and it says it was started in 2020 and they're just now airing the "launch"?

An ice cream shop for a 21st birthday "party". Not saying that you have to have alcohol for your 21st birthday celebration, but that is what legally comes with age 21. Age 16, driver's license and cars. Age 18, voting and legal for sex. Age 21, can drink alcohol. Something I noticed this episode: They all went shopping for clothes for the party, but Anna wasn't able to attend. "She already has her outfit", as Mom and Dad buy everyone else outfits.