Good Eats

On the food channel is a show called Good Eats. It's hosted by Alton Brown and focuses on not only cooking but the chemistry of cooking. Very interesting.

Until you watch enough that you realize Mr. Brown is a food and cooking elitist. He's so picky about what ingredients he uses and how something is cooked. Which I suppose is what makes a good chef, but then he also mentions over and over how easy it is to do it his way.

Sure it's wasy if your job happens to be a hosting a t.v. show where all you do is cook. :P It is not easy - punk.

Furthermore, the more you watch the show the more you watch your favorite comfort foods of your childhood being dicked up.

Such as his banana split, which consists of caramelized banana's, homemade peach ice cream, and a caramel doo-hickey that he made from his homemade caramel sauce.

Um no Mr. Brown. Though that sounds good - a banana split is supposed to be two banana's swimming in vanilla ice cream with pineapple, strawberries and chocolate syrup AND a bunch of cherries. AND whipped cream too. From the can. It should not look pretty and should be messy to eat. THAT is a banana split.

I had to cry when he messed up macaroni and cheese - I tuned out when he stated that he ground his own meat for hamburgers.

What has this to do with anything?

Heard at our lunch table today:

Husband: You're not a good wife because you don't take the time to make all those nice things from Good Eats.

Roommate: You did not just say that.

Me: ...

Good Eats - making house wives and non-houses wives alike feel inadequate all over the world.