at least once per day I think about how I have never judged a book by its cover so badly as I once did Guy Fieri
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I think mayor Guy died and we had to avenge him, there was one session I missed, but I do remember fighting a 40-foot Paula Deen and Gordon Ramsay and getting to cast Summon Animal for the first time to fling giant snakes at them
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I actually think a lot about this review and how gleefully it invited us to bond over mocking the lowbrow? I think negative reviews of restaurants where you have a negative experience are a critic’s job. But we RELISHED the cruelty here so much that I feel weird about it now.https://twitter.com/CultureFactotum/status/1335304744865292288 …
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Like is it a masterful piece of writing? Yes. Does its existence improve the restaurant world? Or did it just serve to make people who read NYT restaurant reviews feel comfortable in their own aesthetic superiority? It did for me! I think that article is part of the problem.
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Laughing at that review made a lot of us into hypocrites pretending we, also, are too cultured for such tacky things as Donkey Sauce, but you know what, that shit is DELICIOUS it requires us to pretend we have never unironically enjoyed anything that might be seen as tacky
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But like! I love a fucking Panda Express! I’ll go to a Chevys and drink a margarita the size of my head! You can enjoy elegant five-star fine dining and also sometimes just want to Postmates some McNuggets at midnight! WE CAN JUST LET PEOPLE LIKE THINGS AND NOT LAUGH & POINT
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I feel like that review was for people who think no one in the world could enjoy both “Anna Karenina” and “Real Housewives,” because fundamentally there are Distinct Kinds Of People, and I’m very aware of that in film/TV but have been less attuned to it in how we talk about food
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YES this is exactly what it is it’s the instinct to mock anything or anyone who is not ironic Guy is EARNEST and SINCERE and if you laugh at him he is not in on the joke with you in a snarky ironic distant way, which essentially makes it just .... being meanhttps://twitter.com/sanjerina/status/1335316950684233728 …
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and idk man it’s 2020 I’m over that shit a lot of polished and professional looking people in suits fucked us over but we’re being saved by Dolly Parton and Guy Fieri so like, just let people enjoy their big messy hamburger
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There's a LITRPG Series I've been really enjoying called Troll Nation that's full of references to a Guy Fieri homage always makes me smile listening to the audio book version.
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