Okay. It's not as though I didn't expect it - especially after last year. In fact, this was worse than anything that happened last season. Even so, maybe you could call the show a "guilty pleasure," since I have fun watching it, even though (or maybe because) it IS so bad.
I'm sure, by now, you know I'm talking about the Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off.
In the first episode, Gilbert Gottfried was eliminated because he couldn't even make a decent peanut butter and jelly sandwich. As much as I like him, that's ridiculous (unless he did it deliberately because he wanted to show how ridiculous the show, itself, is).
The second episode is where my subject line for this thread comes in.
In this episode, the contestants were at a large, California farm. To start the round, each had to choose one of the "proteins" listed on index cards clipped to a scarecrow and then had to pick their own vegetables to make a side dish for the "protein."
Notice that I used quotation marks around the word "proteins." Well, two of this year's celebrities are vegetarians, so two of the "proteins" on those cards were mushrooms and eggplant.
Hello?
Mushrooms and eggplant? Proteins? If you're going to cop out completely and play the "politically correct" and "we don't want to OFFEND anyone" cards, why not, at least, choose something that HAS some protein?
Eggplants have something like 1.01 grams of protein for a 100-gram serving.
Mushrooms have around 2.5 grams.
(Beef has 26 grams.)
Peas, with 5.5 would have been more than the eggplant and the mushrooms combined. Black beans have 21.25 - almost as much as an actual meat!
Fortunately, one of those vegetarians (Cornelia Guest) not only was in the bottom two for the night, but also lost and was eliminated.
I wonder if that will hurt FoodNetwork's diversity quota.
Seriously: eggplant and mushrooms?
I'm sure, by now, you know I'm talking about the Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off.
In the first episode, Gilbert Gottfried was eliminated because he couldn't even make a decent peanut butter and jelly sandwich. As much as I like him, that's ridiculous (unless he did it deliberately because he wanted to show how ridiculous the show, itself, is).
The second episode is where my subject line for this thread comes in.
In this episode, the contestants were at a large, California farm. To start the round, each had to choose one of the "proteins" listed on index cards clipped to a scarecrow and then had to pick their own vegetables to make a side dish for the "protein."
Notice that I used quotation marks around the word "proteins." Well, two of this year's celebrities are vegetarians, so two of the "proteins" on those cards were mushrooms and eggplant.
Hello?
Mushrooms and eggplant? Proteins? If you're going to cop out completely and play the "politically correct" and "we don't want to OFFEND anyone" cards, why not, at least, choose something that HAS some protein?
Eggplants have something like 1.01 grams of protein for a 100-gram serving.
Mushrooms have around 2.5 grams.
(Beef has 26 grams.)
Peas, with 5.5 would have been more than the eggplant and the mushrooms combined. Black beans have 21.25 - almost as much as an actual meat!
Fortunately, one of those vegetarians (Cornelia Guest) not only was in the bottom two for the night, but also lost and was eliminated.
I wonder if that will hurt FoodNetwork's diversity quota.
Seriously: eggplant and mushrooms?
If blueberry muffins have blueberries in them, what do vegan muffins have?
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