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Food, Not-So-Glorious Food
Why do people keep trying to serve up trash?
Hate to take it to the dark side of prime time's food service industry, but lately it seems like I keep catching people doing something naughty to a plate of food. Just a few weeks ago on Fox's Hell's Kitchen, pastry chef Jen tried to recycle pasta she'd just tossed into the trash. This weekend I saw a scene on HBO's Big Love where Heather Tuttle dropped a hamburger bun during one of her sermons to Sarah Henrickson. The usually pious miss picked it up, brushed it off and proceeded to serve it up. (What the...?!) And don't even get me started on the things Dane Cook and Co. do to food during late-night reruns of the movie Waiting. These nasty coinkidinks almost make a girl not want to eat food cooked outside of her own home.
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Jul 9, 2007 6:30 PM
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Ewww! Alton Brown would be so upset!
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Jul 9, 2007 8:18 PM
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Alton Brown rules!
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Jul 10, 2007 1:36 PM
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You definitely do not want to know what goes on in restaurant kitchens or in most home kitchens either. My friend is a restaurant head chef and the stories I have heard during the 30 years she has worked in restaurants would go far in dissauding anyone from eating at a restaurant. And of course, if you read Tony Bourdain's book, you wouldn't ever eat out or have fish at a restaurant on Monday. But, of course, the food handling skills of most people are pathetically unaware if not downright dangerous, particularly in people's home kitchens. If I tell you just how bad, you will never eat again at your own home either. Just make sure you wash the tongs each time you touch the raw chicken on your BBQ grill.
Jen taking the pasta out the trash, rinsing it and heating it to 212F probably is one of the safer food handling things you might consider. Just compare that to the rancid crab Joanna tried to serve in Hell's Kitchen during the same episode! Jen's pasta probably wouldn't have even made your sick, but the rancid crab would have killed you.
And now having consider what I just wrote, I'm never again going to eat anything I haven't personally prepared. 
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Jul 11, 2007 12:05 AM
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GIRL YOU FUNNY!!!!!
i get tired of all the white folks up in here (no offense) and I love to hear from a woman of color. usually i just have to settle for the gay guys. they are funny too.
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Jul 11, 2007 2:48 AM
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P.S. I just got my tv guide in the mail and can you tell me why Paula Abdul looks like a crazy monkey with a wig and makeup on? she looks CRAZY
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Jul 11, 2007 2:49 AM
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I saw that episode of Big Love and I thought it strange as well. You are right again.
Karma
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Jul 26, 2007 5:46 PM
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I just read your comment about Johnny's creepy son on The Dead Zone. As I remember it, Johnny did have his "gift" before the accident and subsequent coma. But the coma intensified it...turned up the gain, if you will. I don't know if I got this from the original movie or this series.
Dawn
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Jul 31, 2007 2:51 AM
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Dawn is right! Johnny awakened his ability when he was a kid (remember when he hit his head on the ice playing hockey), then it showed itself early the night of his accident at the carnival with Sarah at the "roulette" wheel. Which is parallel to how JJ's ability shows itself in this season's episode. The Dead Zone is a part of the brain and is always there--maybe in all of us. The ice incident when he was a kid, then the car accident when he was an adult just awakened Johnny's Dead Zone.  SavvyStephanie
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Aug 1, 2007 1:59 AM
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Just read Dawn and SavvyStephanie's comments on Johnny's ability. If you recall (I don't know which season) the episodes with his dead father and his father's office, you will remember that he had times when he was a small child that he "knew" things. It's been shown almost each time they go back to his childhood (if you're paying attention) that there's something that gives you a telltale sign that he's been psychic all his life. He never seemed to pay much attention to it, but the coma made it undeniable.
Rochell, you are absolutely wrong and so is that Philly reader that Johhny has only been psychic since the coma. If the Philly reader wants proof, I'd be glad to have a Dead Zone marathon and point those times out to her; I'm in the Philly suburbs.
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Aug 22, 2007 3:35 PM
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