On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:26:45 -0500, "Dee Randall"
> wrote:

>>>
>>> Rick Bayless (who knows his onions, in spite of that Burger King gaffe
>>> he will forever pay for) says a lot about mole in his _Mexican
>>> Kitchen_ cookbook. There are scores of moles out there. Here's one:
>>
>
>I googled groups, etc. and the links to the newspapers regarding the gaffe
>were no longer valid. Is the long and short of it that he made a commercial
>for BK? Or was it that he made a remark in one of his shows about BK?
>Curiously funny.
>Dee Dee
>
It was a while back, and as sf sez, no big deal. Bayless made an ad
for a new sandwich at BK in which he said it was some of the best
barbecue around. It wasn't even barbecue. I know. I ate one. Once.
Never again.

When folks like Tony Bourdain took him to task on the matter, Bayless
made some stupid remarks about the clientele at BK not really knowing
much about food and so on. Also there were claims about the relative
healthiness of the sandwich involved in the ad campaign. Bayless
excused his shilling by pointing out the lower salt and fat contents
of the "best barbecue around," and pointing out that if they ate the
sandwich he supported they were much better off than if they had a
Whopper, which in their food ignorance they just might get instead.
It came off pretty much like Barbara Bush discussing how good it must
be for "those people" in the Astrodome last fall.

Bourdain ripped him a new one on eGullet over that.

I don't think BK offers the sandwich anymore.

modom