Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?

I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.

I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
mixture?

And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!

What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
shows now?

Meloneyd said...

> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?


For me it's Mario Batali, simply because he talks too much about places and
cultural tastes and differences and styles and cooking in Italy in an effort
to educate his viewers but two seconds after he's finished talking I've
forgotten the name of the town, or region or whatever since he goes through
it so fast.

It's the only show I don't even like to hear in the background.

But that's just me!

Andy

It might be Bobby Flay for me. I think he's a skilled chef but there's
something about his personality - arrogance maybe - that rubs me the
wrong way.

Runner-up would be Sandra Lee or Michael Chiavello (sp?).

Kris

Meloneyd wrote:
> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>
> I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
>
> I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> mixture?
>
> And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
>
> What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> shows now?

For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
perky for me. Second place would be Sandra Lee for cooking by assembly.
I think that some of her quick cooking methods really leave a lot to
be desired.

StephanieM

For me it's a Rachel Ray-Bobby Flay tie.

She flaps around like a chicken with it's head cut off and he is just
plain annoying, starting with the voice.

Sandra Lee is too much of a joke to bother discussing.

Oh, wait....haven't we done this before, at least 10 times?

StephanieM wrote:
>
> For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
> perky for me.

Just watch the hands flapping around. She is like Joe Cocker with
with a spatula.

"StephanieM" > wrote in
ps.com:

> For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
> perky for me.


Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Rachael Ray........ perky.... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ;-)






--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

'Enjoy today, it was paid for by a veteran'

http://www.beccycole.com/albums/vide...ter_girl.shtml

"Meloneyd" > wrote in news:1167328002.877008.25930
@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>


Delia Smith, hands down.

She's as boring as batshit.

http://www.deliaonline.com/




Then there'd be Jacques Reymond from 'Secret Recipies'.

http://www.abc.net.au/secretrecipes/host.htm

He talks too damn fast in a very thick French accent, and keeps
interrupting his guests and sticking his nose and fingers in their food.
I'd slap him down if he did that in my kitchen.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

'Enjoy today, it was paid for by a veteran'

http://www.beccycole.com/albums/vide...ter_girl.shtml

Meloneyd wrote:
> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why? [snip]

If they are annoying I don't watch them, so I couldn't put them in rank
order. It might be more productive to ask whether there are cooking
shows on PBS or elsewhere away from the Food Network that people like
or find instructive.

I like Daisy Cooks on PBS. -aem

Meloneyd wrote:

> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>
> I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
>
> I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> mixture?
>
> And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
>
> What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> shows now?
>


The worst, by far, is Martin Yan. Along with the incessant
bombast, he's almost always incoherent. If you listen closely
he usually fails to completely finish his sentences.

Funny thing is, he supposedly has the record for most
shows produced of any TV chef in history. Over 1000.

--
Reg

On 2006-12-29, Reg > wrote:

> The worst, by far, is Martin Yan. Along with the incessant
> bombast, he's almost always incoherent. If you listen closely
> he usually fails to completely finish his sentences.

Is Martin now on Food Network?

Yeah, he can be annoying with his constant repitition and other quirky
mannerisms, but I've learned about Chinese cooking from him. Isn't
that what it's all about?

nb

On 28 Dec 2006 13:35:47 -0800, "StephanieM"
> wrote:

>For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
>perky for me. Second place would be Sandra Lee for cooking by assembly.
> I think that some of her quick cooking methods really leave a lot to
>be desired.
>
>StephanieM

Gotta be Marc Summers and his...


....ridiculous...



....pauses and...

....arhythmic...

....intonAtions!
--

modom

http://www.koyote.com/users/modom/home.html

Meloneyd wrote:
> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>

Too many to keep track of. I hate the shows where people walk around
some town and ga-ga over the food like drooling idiots. None of the
hosts are interesting enough and watching other people eat sure isn't.

Sandra Lee's cooking bothers me more than her personality. The glop she
makes is horrific, and sometimes more work than scratch cooking.

Rachel Ray is unnaturally perky. I can watch her, but I have to turn
the sound off and use close-captioning.


>
> What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> shows now?

It's not about cooking anymore. It's a food entertainment channel. The
people who run it don't think that how-to shows where people
demonstrate recipes is interesting enough for modern viewers. So we get
crap like "Unwrapped" instead.

Quote: "It's a matter of redirecting our efforts away from the network
for people who cook to the network for everyone who loves to eat," says
Erica Gruen network CEO.


Dawn

Reg wrote:
> Meloneyd wrote:
>
> > Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
> >
> > I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
> >
> > I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> > some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> > coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> > mixture?
> >
> > And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
> >
> > What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> > shows now?
> >
>
>
> The worst, by far, is Martin Yan. Along with the incessant
> bombast, he's almost always incoherent. If you listen closely
> he usually fails to completely finish his sentences.
>
> Funny thing is, he supposedly has the record for most
> shows produced of any TV chef in history. Over 1000.
>
> --
> Reg

The man CAN cook, but I find him annoying, too. I think he tries WAY
too hard to be cute and funny. I don't mind a joke now and then, but
I'd far rather have the cooking method demonstrated and talked about
in a straightforward, pleasant way.

I miss Julia Child something awful. I always learned something from
her, and never found her TV persona annoying.

I don't have cable so I cannot make a fair assessment of cable TV
cooks. But I can't see the point of watching a cooking show in which
the cook assembles prepackaged preservative filled pre-made crap into
semi-packaged crap on camera. If I watch a cooking show, it's because
I'm interested in COOKING, that is, making real food out of fresh
ingredients.

Reg wrote:
> Meloneyd wrote:
>
> > Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
> >
> > I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
> >
> > I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> > some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> > coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> > mixture?
> >
> > And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
> >
> > What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> > shows now?
> >
>
>
> The worst, by far, is Martin Yan. Along with the incessant
> bombast, he's almost always incoherent. If you listen closely
> he usually fails to completely finish his sentences.
>
> Funny thing is, he supposedly has the record for most
> shows produced of any TV chef in history. Over 1000.
>
> --
> Reg

The man CAN cook, but I find him annoying, too. I think he tries WAY
too hard to be cute and funny. I don't mind a joke now and then, but
I'd far rather have the cooking method demonstrated and talked about
in a straightforward, pleasant way.

I miss Julia Child something awful. I always learned something from
her, and never found her TV persona annoying.

I don't have cable so I cannot make a fair assessment of cable TV
cooks. But I can't see the point of watching a cooking show in which
the cook assembles prepackaged preservative filled pre-made crap into
semi-packaged crap on camera. If I watch a cooking show, it's because
I'm interested in COOKING, that is, making real food out of fresh
ingredients.

Melissa

StephanieM wrote:
> For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
> perky for me.

She can't cook a lick. And how can she be perky, Rachel Ray doesn't
even have tits.

"Meloneyd" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>
> I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
>
> I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> mixture?
>
> And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
>
> What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> shows now?


Can I vote for all of them? I pretty much quit watching the food channel
when it became Emeril tv. I've caught parts of shows here and there and
haven't seen a thing I'd actually watch.

Ms P

Bobby Flay. I'm sick of corn and chili in everything. Tex-Mex is so 5
years ago.

notbob wrote:

> On 2006-12-29, Reg > wrote:
>
> > The worst, by far, is Martin Yan. Along with the incessant
> > bombast, he's almost always incoherent. If you listen closely
> > he usually fails to completely finish his sentences.
>
> Is Martin now on Food Network?

No. He has a show running on PBS, Martin Yan's Chinatown or something
like that.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

wrote:

> For me it's a Rachel Ray-Bobby Flay tie.
>
> She flaps around like a chicken with it's head cut off and he is just
> plain annoying, starting with the voice.
>
> Sandra Lee is too much of a joke to bother discussing.
>
> Oh, wait....haven't we done this before, at least 10 times?

And it's just as fascinating as all the other times.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

Default User said...

> notbob wrote:
>
>> On 2006-12-29, Reg > wrote:
>>
>> > The worst, by far, is Martin Yan. Along with the incessant
>> > bombast, he's almost always incoherent. If you listen closely
>> > he usually fails to completely finish his sentences.
>>
>> Is Martin now on Food Network?
>
> No. He has a show running on PBS, Martin Yan's Chinatown or something
> like that.


Yabbut, have you ever seen him conduct business with a bell pepper?!?

He's funny and just about the fastest chef on TV.

He's OK in my book!!!

Andy

"Sheldon" > wrote in
oups.com:

> StephanieM wrote:
>> For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
>> perky for me.
>
> She can't cook a lick. And how can she be perky, Rachel Ray doesn't
> even have tits.

Perky is as perky does.
She's annoyingly chirpy.
I'll bet she was a cheerleader.

IBM

On 2006-12-29, Ian MacLure > wrote:

> I'll bet she was a cheerleader.

Of course she was. C'mon!.... her picture is next to the definition
of cheerleader in the dictionary, ferchrysakes.

I like "painfully perky". But hey! ...would you prefer Morose Martha
or Inert Ina or Jejune Giada? At least RR inspires a little lust, now
and then.

nb

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:34:14 -0600, notbob > wrote:

>I like "painfully perky". But hey! ...would you prefer Morose Martha
>or Inert Ina or Jejune Giada? At least RR inspires a little lust, now
>and then.

I prefer Nigella.

Christine

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:36:52 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:34:14 -0600, notbob > wrote:
>
>>I like "painfully perky". But hey! ...would you prefer Morose Martha
>>or Inert Ina or Jejune Giada? At least RR inspires a little lust, now
>>and then.
>
>I prefer Nigella.
>
Speaking of inspiring lust now and then...
--

modom

http://www.koyote.com/users/modom/home.html

modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:36:52 -0700, Christine Dabney
> > wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:34:14 -0600, notbob >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I like "painfully perky". But hey! ...would you prefer Morose
>>> Martha or Inert Ina or Jejune Giada? At least RR inspires a little
>>> lust, now and then.
>>
>> I prefer Nigella.
>>
> Speaking of inspiring lust now and then...

Yup. Lusting after Rachel Ray is like lusting after Jack Nicholsen's version
of The Joker. Don't believe me? Go to:

http://community.livejournal.com/rac...ay_sux/profile Keep watching the
RR picture on the right.
--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

Ian MacLure wrote:
> "Sheldon" > wrote in
> oups.com:
>
>> StephanieM wrote:
>>> For me it is Rachael Ray, I like the way she cooks, but she is too
>>> perky for me.
>>
>> She can't cook a lick. And how can she be perky, Rachel Ray doesn't
>> even have tits.
>
> Perky is as perky does. She's annoyingly chirpy. I'll bet she was a
> cheerleader.

<q>

*Were you, or were you not, a cheerleader in high school?*

I certainly was a cheerleader in high school -- and a darn good one! I
was the ta-dah cheerleader, the one who climbed to the top of the
pyramid and then flipped into the arms of other cheerleaders. And I was
also the cheerleader that would run the length of the gym, do a flip and
then end with the splits.

*What was your high school team?*

The Lake George (N.Y.) Warriors.

</q>

- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/296118_ray18.html


--
Blinky

"Meloneyd" > wrote in news:1167328002.877008.25930
@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>
> I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
>
> I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> mixture?
>
> And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
>
> What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> shows now?

Paula Deen, smarmy accent, recipes that are usually fat added to fat with
some sugar thrown in for good measure.



--

Charles
The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we
created them. Albert Einstein

"Meloneyd" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>
> I would have to go with Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade.
>
> I wanted to give her a chance but how many times can I watch her make
> some sort of refrigerated canned biscuits circle thing that she then
> coats with a thick layer of her uninspiring powdered sugar and water
> mixture?
>
> And don't even get me started on the tablescapes!
>
> What has happened to this channel and why are there only like five
> shows now?
========
I cannot stand looking at the little Italian cook with all the teeth and the
low cut jerseys. I never watch her show.
Rachel Ray talks too much and is much too loud.
>

I consider Bobby Flay the most annoying Food Network personality. He
mispronounces (mis-pwonounces?) many of his words; he's ungrammatical;
his food is Chili's-caliber; and he does really weird things. For
example, once while teaching FN viewers how to make hamburgers, he
thrust the meat patties towards the camera and said, "You know you
wanna eat that." I did NOT have any such wish, and I thought that
antic of Flay's verged on being disgusting.

Andy wrote:
> Meloneyd said...
>
> > Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>
>
> For me it's Mario Batali, simply because he talks too much about places and
> cultural tastes and differences and styles and cooking in Italy in an effort
> to educate his viewers but two seconds after he's finished talking I've
> forgotten the name of the town, or region or whatever since he goes through
> it so fast.
>
> It's the only show I don't even like to hear in the background.
>
> But that's just me!

I don't agree. Batali's got to be the most knowledgeable of FN cooks.
I appreciate his information.

"pfoley" > wrote in message
> I cannot stand looking at the little Italian cook with all the teeth and
> the
> low cut jerseys.

If everyone was looking at her teeth instead of the little hills, she would
not have a show.

On 2006-12-30, Kyle > wrote:

> his food is Chili's-caliber; and he does really weird things.....

He advocates boiling ribs.

nb

On 30 Dec 2006 07:43:48 -0800, "Kyle" > wrote:

>
>Andy wrote:
>> Meloneyd said...
>>
>> > Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
>>
>>
>> For me it's Mario Batali, simply because he talks too much about places and
>> cultural tastes and differences and styles and cooking in Italy in an effort
>> to educate his viewers but two seconds after he's finished talking I've
>> forgotten the name of the town, or region or whatever since he goes through
>> it so fast.
>>
>> It's the only show I don't even like to hear in the background.
>>
>> But that's just me!
>
>I don't agree. Batali's got to be the most knowledgeable of FN cooks.
>I appreciate his information.

I agree with Kyle. He's a knowledgeable professional **chef** (unlike
3/4 of FN's stable) and imparts his knowledge in a (to me)
user-friendly fashion.

TammyM

"TammyM" > wrote in message
...
> On 30 Dec 2006 07:43:48 -0800, "Kyle" > wrote:
>
> >
> >Andy wrote:
> >> Meloneyd said...
> >>
> >> > Who is your most annoying Food Network Personality and why?
> >>
> >>
> >> For me it's Mario Batali, simply because he talks too much about places
and
> >> cultural tastes and differences and styles and cooking in Italy in an
effort
> >> to educate his viewers but two seconds after he's finished talking I've
> >> forgotten the name of the town, or region or whatever since he goes
through
> >> it so fast.
> >>
> >> It's the only show I don't even like to hear in the background.
> >>
> >> But that's just me!
> >
> >I don't agree. Batali's got to be the most knowledgeable of FN cooks.
> >I appreciate his information.
>
> I agree with Kyle. He's a knowledgeable professional **chef** (unlike
> 3/4 of FN's stable) and imparts his knowledge in a (to me)
> user-friendly fashion.
>
> TammyM
=============
Oh, I forgot about him. I agree, talk, talk, talk, talk and oh so smug. Ok
now I don't like him and the little Italian cook with the teeth and the low
cut jerseys. I cannot even watch those two shows for a second.

notbob wrote:
> On 2006-12-30, Kyle > wrote:
>
> > his food is Chili's-caliber; and he does really weird things.....
>
> [Bobby Flay] advocates boiling ribs.

I advocate boiling Bobby Flay.

--Blair

On 30 Dec 2006 16:54:15 -0800, "Blair P. Houghton"
> wrote:

>
>notbob wrote:
>> On 2006-12-30, Kyle > wrote:
>>
>> > his food is Chili's-caliber; and he does really weird things.....
>>
>> [Bobby Flay] advocates boiling ribs.
>
>I advocate boiling Bobby Flay.

Filleting Bobby Flay? Flaying Bobby Flay?

More work than it's worth, I just flip the channel!

TammyM

TammyM wrote:
> "Blair P. Houghton" wrote:
> >notbob wrote:
> >> Kyle wrote:
> >>
> >> > his food is Chili's-caliber; and he does really weird things.....
> >>
> >> [Bobby Flay] advocates boiling ribs.
> >
> >I advocate boiling Bobby Flay.
>
> Filleting Bobby Flay? Flaying Bobby Flay?
>
> More work than it's worth, I just flip the channel!
>

The glaring clue that he's a moronic asshole is his name; BOBby

I have no problem with Robert and Michael, but Bob and Mike are
infantilisms.

M-W

in·fan·til·ism
noun
1 : retention of childish physical, mental, or emotional qualities in
adult life ; especially : failure to attain sexual maturity
2 : an act or expression that indicates lack of maturity
---


Sheldon

Michael Dog3 Lonergan wrote:
> "Blair P. Houghton" wrote:
> > I advocate boiling Bobby Flay.
>
> I agree. Add Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee to the pot.

No. They may have skills other than cooking. At least, Sandra
Lee must, because Ray-ray may simply have driven the TV people
into a mania that made them offer her a contract just to get a word
in edgewise. With SL, talk would never have entered a producer's
mind.

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> Michael Dog3 Lonergan wrote:
> > "Blair P. Houghton" wrote:
> > > I advocate boiling Bobby Flay.
> >
> > I agree. Add Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee to the pot.
>
> No. They may have skills other than cooking. At least, Sandra
> Lee must, because Ray-ray may simply have driven the TV people
> into a mania that made them offer her a contract just to get a word
> in edgewise. With SL, talk would never have entered a producer's
> mind.

Sandra Lee has those skills. It's obvious. So don't throw her in with
Flay.

Rachel Ray? I've bashed her a lot, especially the $40/Day show, but I
was surprised at how much I liked her when she assisted Batali on ICA.
Also, when that stuff about her husband's freakish predilections came
out, I -- again to my surprise -- felt sorry for her. So don't toss
her in w/ Flay either.

Flay deserves to flayed alive -- and alone.