Bobby Flay is a Big Fat Jerk
Two Food Network posts in a row, sue me. But yeah, Bobby Flay, he’s a big fat jerk. If you’ve ever seen his show Throwdown then you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t seen it, let me enlighten you.
Throwdown is a horrible show in which someone who has worked hard to develop a restaurant that specializes in something. The Food Network then approaches these people under the pretense that they’re going to to a special program on them and their food. Then, at the height of the program Bobby Flay shows up and says “yeah, you’re good but I’m way better and I’m about to prove it to you.” There is then a cook-off where a humble restauranteur’s fate is determined by two “judges.” Usually a newspaper restaurant editor and a food blogger. Dripping with high credentials.
Granted, sometimes the restauranteur wins and Bobby Flay’s smug smirk is validation, but then there’s the time that the “judges” choose Bobby’s dish. So the food that people put their souls into is deemed unworthy when the big bad city man comes in and shows off. When Bobby looses he usually says something along the lines of how great the competition was and how glad he is and blah, blah, blah.
The whole premiss of the show is horrid and, frankly Food Network should be ashamed. Bobby Flay may be an Iron Chef and he may be a successful restauranteur himself, but who is he to come in and say someone else’s food is inadequate? He’s a big fat jerk.