Shane you're so wrong. Bobby Flay really knows his shit. His take on flavors and textures (always bold, always familiar like your family's cooking but with a twist) is one I can subscribe to, on and off the grill. Watch some Throwdown and you'll see what I mean. Guy Fieri is a two bit burger flipper who looks like a juggallo.
Oh my god.
Okay we can sit there and talk about Paula Deen's early death, Alton Brown's fucking awesomeness, Nigella Lawson's tits, and Guy Fieri's hair all fuckin' day, but here is something that is not and will not be up for debate:
Bobby Flay is a twat.
Let's not even make it about his childish behavior on the original Iron Chef; that's some fuckin' water under the bridge. This is about Throwdown. This is about a show where a rich, professional chef goes to amateurs who have made their name on a beloved, often family recipe and says to them "
fuck you, I bet I could make some shit in a day that's better". This is a show where these people are initially told that Food Network cares about their recipe and
that they get to show it off on a cooking program for them and then get the bait and switch that is "fuck you, hahahahahahaha, this
shit is all about Bobby Flay you assholes." These people did not sign up for this shit, they didn't go looking for Bobby Flay, no, it's Bobby Flay who, in the greatest arrogance known to man, has decided that he should try to be better than every one else in America and challenges people who are nobody except to their local community to see if he can tell America that he's better than them on national TV.
It's fucking awful. The only saving grace is that he loses 95% of the time. Maybe that's intentional? Maybe it's rigged so that he loses and doesn't look like he's a goddamn fuckwad? I don't know, but that doesn't really make the concept any fucking better. It just looks like he's a fucking dick who can't even accomplish that much.