On Top Chef this season, Padma disparaged someone’s dish as toothsome, and I wanted the chef to say, “Thank you.”

Coney island to me means a restaurant, what others call a diner or family restaurant. If I’m talking bout the hot dog with chili and onions, I just call it a coney. Although I admit to abbreviating the restaurant, too. It’s a Detroit thing, like party store.

Note that this is the same judge who was basically doing the defense’s job for them during the trial, interrupting prosecution nonstop, talking to the prosecutors like they were bad little children in front of the jury, misconstruing the facts of the case in front of the jury, and blaming prosecution for procedural…

I have similar feelings about “gluten-free” being applied to things that never contained anything derived from wheat to begin with.

“Juan" is soooooooo good.

Aw, not having Nadia back is a deal breaker for me.

But that’s patently false, Umami and savory are not the same thing. I agree with just describing something as “umami bomb” doesn’t give you much, but umami was a scientific discovery that fundamentally changed the way we think about food and cooking. 

Umami was going to be my pick, because it’s so often used wrong and pretentiously.

Another Season 1 fan here - love the “cook something at home” segment, the presenter/judge split & the general interactions (esp when the Pigott brothers get cheeky with Rosemary).

I have grown to hate this word SO MUCH. Over the last 10 to 15 years, it has become so over- and mis-used that not only does it have no meaning, but it makes me want to slap every person who uses it.

The grotesque overuse of the word “umami” drives me up a wall. One, because we’ve already got a word in English for it—savory—so stop treating your discovery of MSG like you just got back from the New World with Christopher Columbus, and two, because the word is freaking everywhere these days.

Well, now I feel bad because I have never heard of Nadiya Hussain until reading this article. :(

They managed to bond over a fear of the vagina.

Catholics are ‘accepted’ in the way Irish and Polish got their full ‘white’ status - AKA, certain groups saw an increasing number of ‘others’ and, fearing the lost of their status, asked themselves ‘Which groups that we previously shat on but kind of are similar to us can we pretend to like just enough to pad out our…

This made me laugh a lot. Same, friend. Same.

My grade and high school was mixed in with Bob Jones and straight up Catholics were considered evil...the same with Jews and Mormons.

A lot of the evangelicals I grew up hearing around me in the Southern Baptist churches my family made us go to held onto that viewpoint of “Catholics aren’t real Christians, they’re just pagans pretending to be” all the way through the ‘90s, at the very least (which was the last time I spent any time in a church aside…

Yes, the first season had the contestants cook in their own homes and it was charming and delightful. Taking that away is one of the many ways season two sucked.

You mean they change their criteria based on what the ends are? Sounds perfectly aligned with their reading of scripture, and elected and adored officials...

I love Bake-Off, but I can’t stand this family show. First, because I like watching people who are massively better than me at cooking and/or baking, and second because if I wanted to see a passive-aggressive fight before a meal, I’d go make sauce at my mom’s house.