Wait, so your argument is that Nick didn't believe that they meant him well when they told him not to use the birds nest? You know how silly that is right? Why would they risk making his dish worse when losing meant one of them would go home and not him?

Thats a good reason too, I just wanted to dispel the idea that people only disliked Nick because they thought he should've given up immunity, there were plenty of reasons!

Since you just watched it recently I wanted to get your opinion on this. I've always felt that Mike Voltaggio should have been eliminated instead of Eli in the Bocuse d'Or Culinary Olympics episode. It's a prime example of them keeping around the more talented chef despite them constantly saying they only judge the…

Great call, that was some buulllllshit.

Oh and I'm an idiot for forgetting Hung! He was born in Vietnam and won season 3.

Season 12 winner Mei Lin was born in China, and her family moved to Michigan when she was a baby. Thats the only winner I can think of.

Being in the top 6 with him wasn't enough reason to trust their culinary opinions? I don't really understand that argument considering the chart on wikipedia shows that up until that point Nick had 2 wins, 2 in the top, and 3 on the bottom, Shirley had 2 wins, 1 top and had never been on the bottom and Stephanie had…

Thats why people dislike Nick though, because of how he played it. I don't blame him for the immunity thing, I'd never give it up, but I hated him for the way he responded during that challenge. When your teammates who are at risk of going home are telling you the component is crap and shouldn't be served then you…

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"But then they would have gotten dinged for not following the challenge."

But wasn't the main problem that Stephanie was telling Nick that they shouldn't serve the birds nest on the plate and he did anyway? They absolutely could have kept it off the plate and dealt with the consequences of not completely following Crenn's dish, but instead served something they knew was gross.

Yeah, I remember him talking about his past with drugs during the Top Chef season, but he always seemed so mellow I couldn't believe it when I heard it.

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure when she was eliminated it was in a two person team challenge, and she was mad because she was a veteran and didn't think she should go home before the new chef.

Eh, he's already going to be targeted if he's being a dick and "playing the game." I can't see people targeting him more for whining about it, especially when he'll just give it back to you worse when he gets a chance.

Which is a great way to try to get people to stop playing the game against him!

But then wouldn't they have had more than two black chefs on the show to begin with, and possibly been more lenient with regards to eliminating the only other black chef first?

Yeah the Texas season was the one with Beverly getting bullied. Three of them (Heather, Sarah and Lindsay. just looked it up) were assholes to her the entire season.. Heather was the fucking worst, but I'll always remember Grayson standing up for Beverly.

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Wouldn't that explain why it doesn't look like Carrie Fishers hand?

I always figured it was a live action Krang from a fan made TMNT movie.