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Happy Thursday!

1. Top Chef was a real winner of an episode last night. I’m going to talk about last night’s episode, so if you don’t want anything ruined, skip down to #2*.  Here are the highlights!

- last night’s episode was sponsored by at least 5 billion separate products, including the NFL.

-Padma knows nothing about football. She clearly spent the whole episode trying to figure out why the NFL plays its biggest game in a bowl. However, I would like to encourage her to always wear a ref’s shirt. Holy sweet mother of boner! Hey, I just learned she used to be married to Salman Rushdie. Crazy!

- The little whippersnapper who was kicked off, Jeff I think, tried to do too much.  He would take a simple ingredient like chicken and instead of cooking it in a pan, would launch it into space via the most powerful potatoe gun you’ve ever seen. You know, because he didn’t want to be mundane. Obviously, he’s a pretty talented dude, but I’m surprised he made it this far. Also, did anyone else notice that simply because he was from one part of the South, he claimed the entire southern United States as his home territory.  Very strange.

-Fabio is really starting to get agitated. Over EVERYTHING. From “Bunky” beds to venison, Fabio spent the entire episode teetering on the edge of his sanity. I wonder if that gives him a competitive edge.

-Stefan is a dick. Mostly because he’s super insecure. I just diagnosed that motherfucker! For free!

-Good for Carla. The call for gumbo came at a time when she really needed to hit a home run, erm, score a touchdown. I really like her. I wish she and Fabio could combine and form one super chef. Then I could root for just one of them.

2. There is no number 2 today. I’m sorry. I should have been more honest at the start of this blog.

Happy Monday!

1. This informal poll actually began last night via a status update on Facebook and it has sparked my curiosity. Which of these reality cooking shows do you prefer: Top Chef or Hell’s Kitchen?

For me, it’s a no brainer. Top Chef is by far the superior show. All of the chefs on Top Chef have real life experience and an understanding about how a kitchen works, which from what I remember from Hell’s Kitchen is not true, and that creates a more realistic level of drama . There’s a level of competency amongst the competitors on Top Chef that makes it far more watchable. Plus, the lady host is way fucking smoking hot.

Gordon Ramsey just seems like he’s kind of a dick. He should really be more nurturing, given the constructs of the show. The very fact that he isn’t destroys the show’s credibility.

Anyhoo, your thoughts?

P.S.-My mother was right. If you yell at enough people, stuff gets overnighted to your house.

Mike