Goomba38 wrote:
>
> Paula Deen grates on my nerves, particularly with her accent (And I'm IN
> Georgia! LOL)

I'm in the PNW so I'm not around it at all. It doesn't seem to bother
me. But I don't watch food TV that much.

> but Ina Garten truly annoys me 'cause she seems to have
> all these "rent-a-friends" whom she cooks for as if her life is one
> dinner party after another. She seems so fake, y'know?

I guess I don't see Ina's "fake" friends schtick any more annoying then
Alton Brown's "scientist" schtick or his "let's make cookies to bail
out my poor sister" schtick or his "mini-me" schtick - the list goes on
and on. They all have schtick - which schtick is more or less annoying
is up to the individual.

>
> Conversely, I like Alton Brown a LOT (another Georgian, but with a much
> nicer speaking manner than Paula)

He has an affectation I can't tolerate. I want to beat him to death
with a ball-peen hammer.

-L.