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I like these 2 ideas. 😄 Actually menu and drinks have tax and accounting related words would be fun. Yes, I'll have that Cash Flow Upflow Fizzy Cocktail please. (that name's a bit long...) The first thing that popped into my mind when the guy asked for help on a bar he’s going to open if I were Hermann is where is your bar going to be. Because if it’s close to my bar I can’t help you if it’s going to make me go out of business. Hermann again being clueless/naïve/positive thinking of his fellow humans. smh

I watched him on a not so long ago show that unfortunately was canceled in its 1st season. I liked the show. I think it's called Sunnyside. He played a disgraced some type of councilman person that was kicked out of the office and ending up teaching citizenship? to a bunch of diverse people. The critics thought it wasn't funny but it had its moments. You know, I've thought that FN shows probably do waste food. It's hard to see, usable food not eating, but I'm aware that GGG donates food afterward and maybe they compost stuff. I've really watched GGG a lot because of the pandemic times and I've really started to notice how much food get cut away from produce and meats to make restaurant quality meals. It's very cringy.

I was real disappointed too, darn it. They did warn these challenges weren't easy and the differences between 2 different liquors or 2 different percentage yogurts seems pretty tough to me. You're going to need some luck to get to the very end. I was surprised the next 2 players were slow going thru the speed round. Both of them almost didn't make it. I mean the woman before if she didn't make it thru, could have not gotten thru the speed round because it seemed she wasn't getting thru to the last item before the clock ran out. The too much chatting reminded me of what bugged me about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Many times too much chatting. I get the hmm hmm is the answer this or that kind of talk but the other talk Well, my grandpa loved to fish and his favorite fish to catch is X, that kind of chat felt pointless for me.

I didn't care for the kitchen prep footage either. If you cut out some of these details, they may go thru 3 contestants, not sure if they want to do that. That's not a really bad idea.

Hey, I'll bring it up, last week's episode. So it was a competition of egg dishes! and Antonia and Hunter made Guy eat them, that is, eggs! Well he didn't have to eat them but because they're made by his friends he forced himself a little bit. It was pretty entertaining. I think by now Guy doesn't mind eggs but he plays it up for entertainment value. I kinda agree with him about hard boiled eggs tasting and smelling bad, but these days, I don't think they're eaten that way. It's all soft boiled around me, thanks to ramen love everywhere. And the distaste of a yolk bursting open, I wonder how he'll feel about how the Japanese eat rice and eggs. 😋

Hunter is on a lot, a lot of Guy's shows. He has a regular spot now on GGG! I seem that it bothers some people and he doesn't bother me as in being adverse to him, but I don't like him either. He doesn't have to be an imitation of Guy, but he needs to be a charismatic tv host, and he's...not. Anyway, it seems for sure in about 5 years Hunter will take over hosting these shows like like Ryan Seacrest taking over for Dick Clark's NYE shows. On another note, I never thought of going to a DDD restaurants. It'll be cool, but not something on my to do list. I'm surprised that DDD showcased restaurants get a major boost in business. I just thought it was foodtainment. One restaurant was close to me, I did visit it. Eh they had a schtick, that was fun, but I don't remember the food being great tasting. Now I wonder if restaurants kinda mentioned on Chopped get more business because a cook/chef competed. I once looked up a restaurant of a chef competitor. It was an Asian noodle fusion joint in some town near NYC. It seemed nice except for the prices $15-$25 a plate for lunch. For only casual foods, for me, I can't spend that kind of money. I don't make enough money to do that, it's pretty much the occasional Olive Garden for me.

I think fondant is trendier than icing these days. Isn't fondant more used to make something more elaborate on cakes like 3D castles ala Duff? But if fondant is using basically as icing for cake then well it's not really used for its greater effect compared to icing.

I wasn't going to watch it but then I peeked at it and then I ended up watching it, but only because it was a bit interesting and new. I like new shows because of the freshness factor. I think there are more misses than hits for the show's concepts. Like the good looking server, didn't like Kal mostly asking the female judge on her opinions, ignoring the 2nd judge more. It's glaring obvious and unbalanced tv watching. I want to hear the good looking male judge say stuff too. I think it was a pretty tough challenge, telling the difference between 2% and 5%, I think it's suspicious to have the male contestant eat bugs. If later they have a woman eat bugs, then that'll be good. Also pretty hard for a contestant to accept eating bugs to continue in the game show. And 5K is a too cheap walk away bribe. I think 10K would be better. I like the concept of tasting foods and identifying correctly the foods in it.

I didn't watch FNS when it was on and now no more. :( But per wikipedia, it seemed to be on a number of years and toward the end gave us...Christian Petroni... Anyhoo, I didn't like Matt either. I like high energy < to Guy, but he is Guy X 50 points. Too exuberant for me. However, I liked his choices in dishes, my tastes in food, go figure. I think Matt was stuck with the # spiel because the show was reminding viewers of these people's schticks on FNS, and some buzzwords are now passe or commonplace, like # is. It was probably relevant when Matt was on the show. It was nice Michelle won.

I like Ming too ^^ I thought the new games were good. The "falling rocks" were crazy, outrageous and funny. The slingshot game was also fun and funny. Did not continue watching to see the winner.

It's fun for me to an armchair detective, but I think some clues and red herrings weren't well executed, which would have made me misinterpret things easily. But that's the lousy cards a tv show will deal you, and that's why I think competition shows like this, 40% is random luck, and hopefully the luck is on your side. Knowing me, luck won't happen to me, it'll run off to the next person, sad lol.

Majorly lol. Yolanda, it seems she has some fame as a youtube? uber cake artist and now she's on her way to being a minor reality tv star, but she'll have to accept wear sexy/somewhat sl*tty dresses. I remember I think someone else saying Luis and Natalie seem like nice people but boring and forgettable. I think on one hand that's true and may make for boring tv. But also I kinda like that real people not get trashed over just because they're on tv and made out to seem like awful people when they aren't, they're edited to look bad or mean or stupid or whatever. So it was nice to see nice, boring people win. I think I heard in the last two eliminations that the judges value taste more than presentation when the worst desserts were compared. That clearly explained to me why they chose Unicorn Hair and husband over Emma and mom and then Luis and Natalie over Unicorn Hair and husband because I heard clearly their cake was dry vs. other cake was very yummy, but clearly slanted. I'm not sure which is more important, presentation vs taste, but I kinda like that taste is more valued than presentation. A good tasting cake is better than a pretty, not good tasting cake. I don't agree with Yolanda saying Unicorn's cake isn't birthday looking. I like the idea of other decor themes for a birthday cake. What I didn't get enough from Yolanda's statement is if she wanted more traditional birthday decor themes on a birthday cake-words, candles, etc., or basically just the words happy birthday on the cake. Setting aside Unicorn's cake being dry, if she had piped?/stenciled? happy birthday on the cake that would have taken care of that criticism. It's funny how people think they listen well, but they actually don't. Thomas listens to the judges and thinks what kind of cake would Yolanda like? But somewhere in that thinking it changes to what kind of cake do I like? Forgets the receiver of the cake Yolanda. I think it's a huge thing that for a cake with a value of $100,000, you do not do understated cake knowing cake has that value, and you do not do understated cake knowing cake is series finale cake, and you do not do understated cake for a cake to give to a person that supposedly never ever had a birthday cake made for them.

I've watched this show from the start and I never felt bothered by the mom and daughter until this episode. Very meltdown. I've never seen the daughter that way before. But I don't watch too closely everything generally. I feel it's not really not true as they keep saying that these bakers are the best in the country. They don't seem to be at all. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're not. If they're professional bakers they should be good 90% of the time. I don't see why some of their bakes are bad. They're ordinary people, so maybe consistently they're not going to be good detectives, but there's no excuses for having bad bakes. They have hours, hours, at least 3 hours on average. How can you still botch up baking multi layer cakes with or without filling with so much time? I think they should spend less time on decorating, some time so it's not plain but not too much time. Also, I want to say some of the wardrobe choices were atrocious. Emma? looked like she was wearing a colorful haircutter's hair cutting apron all that time. It was very distracting to me.

I guess I’m ok with the scoring since it seems fairer somewhat. I think judges say whatever still about a person’s food. You say this mistake makes a chef look more bad than another chef’s mistake, but you don’t know for sure, it’s what the judge say, judge may say whatever still because they like that person. Uh, why are they so far apart at the judges table??? I think it’s a pandemic precaution. I kinda don’t like it. People are supposed to be cozy with each other, and cozy…is not having to holler at your fellow judges across a great expanse of a table. I’m still burnt out on GGG. I only watch the first game to enjoy a GGG game, don’t bother to watch the remaining 30 minutes of the show.

nice you made a thread for this. It's a good theme of seemingly normal people surprisingly spiraling toward murderous ends. I liked the one old episode where 2 neighbors in an expensive canyon area argued and argued over basically fence rights. One neighbor got so fed up with it he put a hit out on the other neighbor. It's very surprising and sad and shocking that because a person is a very bad neighbor/very bad person and the receiver of this suffering comes to murderous blows in real life.