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Tango64

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  1. I guess if you charge enough for 300 calorie cookies it’s easier for me to lie to myself that they are natural, healthy etc. I’ll bet the shrinkage is low on that DIY store because they’re in relatively affluent neighborhoods. If you put them in neighborhoods where most food deserts are located, the experience might be very different. They also seemed to stock products that looked high end and discretionary, not the essentials that people in food deserts need. (Maybe they would have both or could change for each market.)
  2. I don’t know for sure but I wonder if the protein items they grab are only for show because they have to sit out under hot lights for long periods until they’re ready to shoot. If so, it might make sense that the shellfish is cooked to keep it from getting gross and stinky. Under this theory, the producers would swap out the contestants’ chosen protein for fresh versions off camera.
  3. Where did Not-a-Doctor get all that rope for his rope bed?
  4. Right. I think this would only appeal to ultra-rich people who want a fun gadget to show off. They have staff buy the ingredients, prep and stock them, just so they can take their tennis buddy to the kitchen and say, "Want my robot to make us lunch?" It doesn't provide any savings in time or effort and it costs a fortune. Just a toy.
  5. After the shower guys refused to answer Barbara’s “What about the pressure?” question twice, just replying that their reviews were good, I was hoping she would dump them flatly. The kitchen robot was ridiculous. If you buy a lot of ingredients, chop them all uniformly, measure them, load them in the little containers, pay another $40k so you can have refrigerated proteins, then you can have a robot make dinner — but only if you want a curry or stew type meal that just sits in the bowl and simmers. Sure, that’s real progress. 🙄
  6. Was Venus wearing fresh makeup in the interview where she was whining about her plight? (I've given up on complaining about all the wardrobe changes.)
  7. She seemed so confident making those absolutely basic wings, right down to the celery and carrots with blue cheese dressing. Gotta try something.
  8. Absolutely brilliant. That would counter what we see now in late-stage Survivor in which everyone arrives knowing exactly what will happen, when and how it will happen, what strategies they have to employ, and how they don't have to worry about the actual "surviving" part of the game. Restore the game to "Oh crap, what's happening? What do we do?" instead of "Okay, here's where I lounge on the beach and try to create alliances while we wait for the task where we can earn a fishing kit."
  9. Whew, glad somebody said it. Very off putting.
  10. Amen. I have very little sympathy for people who let their children live in absolute filth -- which I distinguish from mere "hoarding" of too much stuff. Living in a hoarding home is bad enough, but children living in filth because you're too lazy to throw out the trash is inexcusable. The father gets no leniency from me. He left and saved himself but didn't care about his child enough to even know how he was living, much less rescue him.
  11. On MasterChef, the contestants get an off-camera briefing on the particular item they will have to make. Without that, apparently many would be unable to even atempt difficult things like fancy pastries or dishes they've never heard of. I don't know if they do the same thing for NLK, but it would explain how the contestants can say they've never had the dish but then produce some reasonable version of it.
  12. So the dog food people got attention with the fancy dessert items but the woman said their prepackaged meals “look like slop.” She actually said that. (Quiet aside to that woman: Those glasses don’t work for you.)
  13. Yes, I was hoping a shark would ask if that video was recorded with lighting from the camera or another artificial source. I’d want to know if that’s a true representation of what your video will look like. And if it involves artificial lighting, correct, that interferes with the birds.
  14. Way too much time on the contrived selecting of team members and the competition between the judges.
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