I know it was on a different network, but when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy came out and they used Thom Filicia for the interior designer, it was such a lovely antidote to Trading Spaces.

I kind of miss the old TLC. The simple makeover shows and A Wedding/Baby story were like the innocent, playing outside, PB&J-eating days of the network. With Trading Spaces and What Not to Wear they became a bratty tween, then a rebellious teenager and entitled college kid. I have no idea what they are now.

Wow, did I love Trading Spaces during the Paige years. I was Team Vern and Team Genevieve all the way. Fascinating how the show can also serve as an accurate measure of TLC’s shift in style and tone as well. Thanks for this, Kate!

Didn’t Hildi also staple silk flowers to the walls in a bathroom?

Haha, that’s awesome! I worked at Chi-Chi’s for two years in high school. But consider this — as bland as the food was? At least once a month, someone would end up running down that long hallway (past nine booths) toward the bathrooms, barfing the whole way.

Reese’s Pieces.

Reeses peices instead of m&m’s. Don’t judge me.

It was all cod

I thought I’d seen everything when I was living in Japan, and they would put mayonnaise on pizza. But Japanese people put mayonnaise on everything, and you kind of get used to it.

“They first bitch about all the fish.”

Ok, at the risk of getting my ass chewed;

Grape jelly on pizza? That is gross. And I say that as one of those philistines who actually LIKES pineapple on his pizza.

Okay, so I’m not defending the salad lady in the story, because she didn’t say she wanted no lettuce and was an idiot about it. But I do know why some people order this. I had bariatric surgery, and one of the foods my stomach does not tolerate well is lettuce. It has a tendency to get wadded up and stuck in the small…

I can’t believe you would even suggest something so dangerous. People on this forum ARE ALLERGIC.

It’s the packing peanuts of the food world.

Monogrammed microwaves.

As someone who loves pineapple (with bacon) on pizza, the thought of grape jelly on pizza is nastification in food form.

Reminds me of that barista plaque: “Unattended children will be given espresso and a free kitten.”

Mother likes her food hot. Musn’t upset mother!

I think that gun control would save a hell of a lot more lives.