It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
..... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

On 15/02/2016 8:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
F all on it these days.
Graham

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:09:28 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>.... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

the show has been on for years, usually with a truly inept citizen who
has never eaten anything but takeout or packaged goods.
Janet US

Dave Smith wrote:
>
>It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>.... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

For the most part FoodTV has so deteriorated since I first began
watching it aome twenty years ago that it's worthless... but if I
happen to catch it the only cooking show I watch anymore is Guy
Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, I find him somewhat entertaining
but mostly it's about real people who actually cook for a living who
demonstrate what they do.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/din...and-dives.html
The very worst/dumbest show by far in my opinion is Iron Chef.

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:09:28 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>.... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

Sounds like gripping viewing!
<rolls eyes>.

This is why we need governments willing to euthanase everyone involved
in the mainstream entertainment industry.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could bear
> to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely horrible
> cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

That's not a new show. What I don't get is... What's to prevent a good
cook from faking to be a bad one?

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:30:26 -0700, Janet B >
wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:09:28 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>>.... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.

>the show has been on for years, usually with a truly inept citizen who
>has never eaten anything but takeout or packaged goods.

In the UK from 1995-2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27...,_Won%27t_Cook

It was actually quite fun to watch and even helpful on occasion.

--
Bob
The joint that time is out of
www.kanyak.com

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 15/02/2016 8:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
>It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
> F all on it these days.

These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:30:26 -0700, Janet B > wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:09:28 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>
>>It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>.... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
>the show has been on for years, usually with a truly inept citizen who
>has never eaten anything but takeout or packaged goods.

'Worst' shows have been on EVERYWHERE recently.

Worst drivers in (pick a city, State, or Country),
worst criminals, worst part-goers, and more.

If SOMEONE didn't watch them, they wouldn't BE on.

On 2/15/2016 9:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

I think Kitchen Nightmares is the worst so-called cooking competition on
TV. I watched one episode and part of a second one. That is all I
could take. It's pure junk.

MaryL

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:09:28 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America.
>
> Only in it's 8th season and has been mentioned here dozens of times.
>
> But Dave doesn't read cooking posts, so it's no winder he missed them.
>
> -sw

Yeah.

"MaryL" > wrote in message
...
> On 2/15/2016 9:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
> I think Kitchen Nightmares is the worst so-called cooking competition on
> TV. I watched one episode and part of a second one. That is all I could
> take. It's pure junk.

How is that show a competition? Isn't that the restaurant redo?

On 2/16/2016 4:47 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "MaryL" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 2/15/2016 9:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>> them.
>>
>> I think Kitchen Nightmares is the worst so-called cooking competition
>> on TV. I watched one episode and part of a second one. That is all I
>> could take. It's pure junk.
>
> How is that show a competition? Isn't that the restaurant redo?
No, this was not the restaurant redo unless I used the wrong name (which
is quite possible). The one I have in mind gives each contestant a pack
of money. They bid on a ridiculous item that one of the other
contestants must use as their only/primary cooking tool. For example,
the episode I watched required one competitor to do everything (cooking,
cutting, etc.) using only some foil wrappers from chocolate bars.

MaryL

On 2/16/2016 4:47 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "MaryL" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 2/15/2016 9:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>> them.
>>
>> I think Kitchen Nightmares is the worst so-called cooking competition
>> on TV. I watched one episode and part of a second one. That is all I
>> could take. It's pure junk.
>
> How is that show a competition? Isn't that the restaurant redo?

I just scrolled through a list of titles on the Food Channel. I think
the name of the program I tried to describe is Cutthroat Kitchen (not
Kitchen Nightmares).

MaryL

On 2/15/2016 11:37 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
>
>> It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
>> F all on it these days.
>
> These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?
>
1960

Jill

I don't think I even get the food network.

On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!

They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
I don't.

nancy

On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>
> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
> I don't.
>
> nancy
>
I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.

Jill

On 2016-02-16 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>
> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
> I don't.


There are a number of other channels that air a some decent cooking
shows that are more about cooking that celebrity chefs. Considering the
number of competition /reality shows, restaurant makeovers, staged
restaurant undercover exposees and similar stuff, they seem to have more
actual cooking shows that the Food network.

graham > wrote in :

> On 15/02/2016 8:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new
>> low .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I
>> could bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are
>> absolutely horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to
>> be better. You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able
>> to place them.
>
> It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
> F all on it these days.
> Graham
>
>

I got rid of mine in 1992. Smartest thing I've ever done. I can't stand
seeing TV anywhere anymore.



--
You know it's time to clean the refrigerator
when something closes the door from the inside.

The WVU at Texas game is on espn or espn2 at 7

On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>> them.
>>
>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>>
>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>> I don't.
>>
>> nancy
>>
> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>
> Jill

Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
(and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
would never use.

MaryL

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:59:43 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could bear
>> to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely horrible
>> cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
>That's not a new show. What I don't get is... What's to prevent a good
>cook from faking to be a bad one?

Is that what you tell your family and guests after they've eaten the
crap you serve, that you're just joshing.

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:37:19 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
>
>>On 15/02/2016 8:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>>
>>It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
>> F all on it these days.
>
>These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?

There's plenty of excellent programming, you just need to learn how to
change channels.

On 2/16/2016 12:15 PM, MaryL wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>>> them.
>>>
>>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking Channel!
>>>
>>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>>> I don't.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>>
>> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
> (and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
> competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
> would never use.
>
> MaryL
>
Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.

Jill

On 2016-02-16, jmcquown > wrote:

> Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
> late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.

Lotta cooking competition shows cuz they're cheap to write/produce.

nb

I do get the food network.

Dave, the current season...ended Sunday night, I think...just had ordinary people
who couldn't cook at all, not a celebrity among them.

They did do at least one celebrity season earlier, though. You must have been
watching an old series.

N.

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:46:46 -0800 (PST), Nancy2
> wrote:

>Dave, the current season...ended Sunday night, I think...just had ordinary people
>who couldn't cook at all, not a celebrity among them.
>
>They did do at least one celebrity season earlier, though. You must have been
>watching an old series.
>
>N.

I'm thinking I should send them my ex-DIL - never knew a person who
was such an awful cook, really made no difference what she cooked. Not
just being nasty about an ex. she even acknowledges it herself.

When they were still married and my son was with the Fisheries Dept.
he came home with a beautiful chicken halibut (small whole halibut)
straight from the sea, to die for. I certainly nearly killed her, she
phoned and asked us over and asked me how to cook it. Butter dish,
place fish in dish, squeeze some lemon over, hot oven, 20 mins tops.

We were served an incinerated mess - couldn't tell it had ever been
halibut, she claimed it would have been raw my way Thankfully my
granddaughter is a great little cook, got it from her dad

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:09 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 2/15/2016 11:37 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>
>>> It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
>>> F all on it these days.
>>
>> These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?
>>
>1960

Yes, probably

On 2016-02-16 03:09:28 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.

It's in it's 8th season. I watched part of the 2nd I think, maybe two
episodes. The wife and I were flabbergasted, who would want to watch
this? Train-wreck fans, I guess.

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:45:09 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:37:19 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>
>>>On 15/02/2016 8:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>>>
>>>It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
>>> F all on it these days.
>>
>>These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?
>
>There's plenty of excellent programming, you just need to learn how to
>change channels.

No. Nothing is worth watching if there are ad breaks (or these days,
ads within the show itself before the main ad break).
If they broadcast the second coming of Christ, I might relent.
We have one non-commercial channel here, and even that's been ruined
by relentless PC propaganda.

I've watched either DVDs, or downloaded all my viewing for the past 16
years. That works perfectly fine for me.

On 2/15/2016 10:59 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place them.
>
> That's not a new show. What I don't get is... What's to prevent a good
> cook from faking to be a bad one?

I image the producers vet them well, but a ringer could slip through.
They are also looking for the odd personalities too. More important
than cooking ability.

In the case of the latest, they are probably a group of has-been
celebrities looking for spotlight. Just as Trump's Celebrity
Apprentice. Anything to make a buck and be seen on TV.

On 2/16/2016 6:33 AM, MaryL wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 4:47 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "MaryL" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 2/15/2016 9:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>>> them.
>>>
>>> I think Kitchen Nightmares is the worst so-called cooking competition
>>> on TV. I watched one episode and part of a second one. That is all I
>>> could take. It's pure junk.
>>
>> How is that show a competition? Isn't that the restaurant redo?
>
> I just scrolled through a list of titles on the Food Channel. I think
> the name of the program I tried to describe is Cutthroat Kitchen (not
> Kitchen Nightmares).
>
> MaryL
>

Yes. I watched a few minutes and could not take any more of it. Who
comes up with these dumb ideas?

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:31:28 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:09 -0500, jmcquown >
>wrote:
>
>>On 2/15/2016 11:37 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>>
>>>> It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
>>>> F all on it these days.
>>>
>>> These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?
>>>
>>1960
>
>Yes, probably

If y'all had to sit through an evening of 1960s TV, y'all would be
bored to death.

--
Bruce

On 2/16/2016 10:36 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/15/2016 10:59 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>> them.
>>
>> That's not a new show. What I don't get is... What's to prevent a good
>> cook from faking to be a bad one?
>
> I image the producers vet them well, but a ringer could slip through.
> They are also looking for the odd personalities too. More important
> than cooking ability.
>
> In the case of the latest, they are probably a group of has-been
> celebrities looking for spotlight. Just as Trump's Celebrity
> Apprentice. Anything to make a buck and be seen on TV.

The bank I go to has a big TV in the waiting area tuned to a cooking
channel. I like to watch the program because typically, there will be
good-looking, clear skinned, clean, women on-screen. A lot of the times
they're perky. They also cook stuff that I wouldn't so that's kind of
interesting. The photography is always clear and bright and it depicts
life in a fairly attractive manner. What's not to like?

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 2:38:46 PM UTC-6, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 6:33 AM, MaryL wrote:
> > On 2/16/2016 4:47 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>
> >> "MaryL" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>> On 2/15/2016 9:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
> >>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
> >>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
> >>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
> >>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
> >>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
> >>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
> >>>> them.
> >>>
> >>> I think Kitchen Nightmares is the worst so-called cooking competition
> >>> on TV. I watched one episode and part of a second one. That is all I
> >>> could take. It's pure junk.
> >>
> >> How is that show a competition? Isn't that the restaurant redo?
> >
> > I just scrolled through a list of titles on the Food Channel. I think
> > the name of the program I tried to describe is Cutthroat Kitchen (not
> > Kitchen Nightmares).
> >
> > MaryL
> >
>
> Yes. I watched a few minutes and could not take any more of it. Who
> comes up with these dumb ideas?

Desperate Hollywood types, watching people bail TV by the thousands/millions and relying ONLY on the Internet for their entertainment. Like me!

John Kuthe...

On 2016-02-16 1:43 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 12:15 PM, MaryL wrote:
>> On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking
>>>> Channel!
>>>>
>>>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>>>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>>>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>>>> I don't.
>>>>
>>>> nancy
>>>>
>>> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
>> (and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
>> competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
>> would never use.
>>
>> MaryL
>>
> Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
> late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.
>

They try to pass them off as competitions but they are basically
"reality" shows.

On 2016-02-16, Jeßus > wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:09 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>On 2/15/2016 11:37 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>>
>>>> It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
>>>> F all on it these days.
>>>
>>> These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?
>>>
>>1960
>
> Yes, probably

Nope. I started watching that box in '52. It was crap, then. Jes
less of it. 8|

nb

On 16 Feb 2016 23:05:41 GMT, notbob > wrote:

> On 2016-02-16, Jeßus > wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:09 -0500, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>On 2/15/2016 11:37 PM, Je?us wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:26:33 -0700, graham > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It might be worth my while getting rid of the TV. There's
> >>>> F all on it these days.
> >>>
> >>> These days??? Please tell me when it ever did?
> >>>
> >>1960
> >
> > Yes, probably
>
> Nope. I started watching that box in '52. It was crap, then. Jes
> less of it. 8|
>
Even a critic back then.


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