Yes, Food Network has gone downhill. I've been thinking this for ages.

- Ina and her ridonk "Ask Ina" segments. Remember when BC was about rich
white folks entertaining and eating awesome food? Back when Ina just did
what she wanted to do and didn't pander to the editing monkeys with her
faked taste-gasms and flustered laughter?? I do and it really ****es me
off that BC has turned into "Let's Talk Down To The Viewers and Answer
Non-Sensical Questions For No One In Particular"?

- Paula and over the topness. Paula has always been an annoying
down-home trainwreck personality-wise. However, I used to enjoy watching
her show because it reminded me of cooking with my grandma when I was a
kid. Lots of delicious comfort food, lots of laughter (my grandma didn't
have a scary laugh like Paula)...Looking back, that episode where she
made the heart-attack sandwich using doughnut buns was the real turning
point for me. That wasn't cooking as much as it was attention-whoring
and I don't care if you're a southern fried home chef, no one in their
right freaking mind is going to use doughnuts as a substitute for buns
on a sandwich. And who could forgive the travesty that was the butter
sculpture? The heights of idiocy have been reached, folks, and there is
no turning back.

- TNFS? Ok. TNIC? Ok. ICA? Great, I love it. Chopped? Surprisingly good,
but going stale after two seasons. All of the other competition shows?
Who gives a rat's foot? Not I. I despise the challenges and I loathed
The Last Cake Standing. Best in Smoke? Seriously, who cares? Cupcake
Wars? Gah, words can't express my disdain for that epic disaster of a
show...Bobby Flay's Throwdown? I like seeing Bobby getting knocked off
his high horse as much as the next person, but seeing it week after week
kind of ruins the fun for me.

- Actual cooking shows... Giada has never been appealing to me and even
less so in the later seasons. Rach? Lost her touch after netting her own
talk show. Down Home with the Neelys...rarely bearable. Melissa? Never
watched her show and probably never will. Guy's Big Bite? Why
bother...no one watches it because DDD is the star attraction. Alton?
His show got canned, which is a shame. Good Eats was always my fave show
but now that he has lost weight and is a big-time host of ICA, he
doesn't need his goofy little cooking show to get by, I guess. Anne? I
really like her show, but it seems to be playing second fiddle to all of
the dumbed down "add a can of X to the pot of Y and stir" type shit that
has replaced all of the actual cooking shows on FN (I'm looking at you,
Sandra Lee!).

- Now we have Hungry Girl. What a crock of a show. She is even worse
than Sandra Lee. Very little cooking...mostly food assembly and pithy
weight loss advice from the 80s mixed with product promotions. Gah. FN,
if this is the direction you're headed in, count me out of your future
viewing populace.