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LTTP - Man vs Food
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PetriP-TNT
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There's an episode where he eats Steamed Hams.
Minds were blown that day
Minds were blown that day
Demirichris
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Adam is basically my hero and he has my dream job. The dude has to work out a little between shows or else he would be fucking gigantic. I heard he was in my hometown a few months ago (Indianapolis) but the show has yet to air.
The spicy challenges for the most part aren't as much fun but sometimes he messes with shit that people probably shouldn't even be eating. My favorite being that weird stoner cafe, where he ate some wings that made his face swell up and he could only do like one bite. It was kinda scary because the guys cooking for him CLEARLY did not know shit about food and could have potentially made some deadly shit...
I don't watch much TV but when I do, I usually go for the mindless fun shit (Travel and Food.)
The spicy challenges for the most part aren't as much fun but sometimes he messes with shit that people probably shouldn't even be eating. My favorite being that weird stoner cafe, where he ate some wings that made his face swell up and he could only do like one bite. It was kinda scary because the guys cooking for him CLEARLY did not know shit about food and could have potentially made some deadly shit...
I don't watch much TV but when I do, I usually go for the mindless fun shit (Travel and Food.)
Nostalgic Nightmare
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I like the show as well, Adam is indeed likeable but for food shows, I really dig Triple D.
I totally get how Guy can come off as a douche nozzle, but it's all part of his self marketing I'm sure. At this point I just zone him out completely. What I do like is the places he goes, and the food prep that is shown. Having worked in a kitchen for years in my earlier days, it's this kind of access, if you pay attention that can give you a ton of good ideas.
I totally get how Guy can come off as a douche nozzle, but it's all part of his self marketing I'm sure. At this point I just zone him out completely. What I do like is the places he goes, and the food prep that is shown. Having worked in a kitchen for years in my earlier days, it's this kind of access, if you pay attention that can give you a ton of good ideas.
Host Samurai
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I just got back from Vegas and on my last day we decided to go to Hash House A Go Go for breakfast that Adam went to on the Vegas episode. It was sick I tell you. The pancakes were the size of my head and the fried chicken eggs benedict was pretty much one of the most insane things I have ever eaten.
I was talking to the staff about Adam when he came on the show and they said he was one of the coolest guys they met. He seems like a really cool guy on the show. I would love to grab a burger with the dude one day in NYC if I ever run into him :lol.
I was talking to the staff about Adam when he came on the show and they said he was one of the coolest guys they met. He seems like a really cool guy on the show. I would love to grab a burger with the dude one day in NYC if I ever run into him :lol.
Mr. B Natural
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modernkicks said:
I would like the show better if he actually fought the food
and lost.
This is Adam's darkest moment on the show. It's the 420 challenge. I would figure that amount of spice could kill a man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsTxx2SuVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsTxx2SuVk
I love this show.
It amazes me how good the value for money the food in America is. You get hardly anything in the UK for a few quid. Probably a small burger and fries. But in America? A HUGE MEAL.
A lot of the food looks really good. Some of it looks downright awful. I don't know why he likes it ALL. Unless it really is that nice to eat.
It amazes me how good the value for money the food in America is. You get hardly anything in the UK for a few quid. Probably a small burger and fries. But in America? A HUGE MEAL.
A lot of the food looks really good. Some of it looks downright awful. I don't know why he likes it ALL. Unless it really is that nice to eat.
I feel the same way about the challenges. One time he ate something so spicy he started hyper ventilating and hiccupping. I thought he was going to die.Fladam said:
I like the first segments of the show.
Travel Channel is one of my favorites. Bourdain's is probably my favorite and I really miss him as a Top Chef judge.
MidnightRider
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Leunam said:
I would try everything he has done......
not saying I could do any of it..... except the spicy food....i.e. the wings
I can destroy spicy food.
BotoxAgent
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So true. I love travel ch much more than FN these days. Bourdains show alone shits all over anything FN has to offer.Nabs said:
SapientWolf
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Not as dumb as crack, apparently.paranoidfortean said:
BotoxAgent
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That ghost chilli episode, damn. He wasn't even allowed to drink milk. That's just cruel.
SapientWolf
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Milk would just make it worse. You're supposed to wash your mouth out with cooking oil.BotoxAgent said:
edit: nvm Milk is fine. Water makes it worse.
Just to bump this, but I saw that this show is on Netflix. Didn't notice until today, and just as a notice to those who didn't know.
http://www.netflix.com/WiSearch?oq=man+v&v1=Man+v.+Food:+Season+1&search_submit=
http://www.netflix.com/WiSearch?oq=man+v&v1=Man+v.+Food:+Season+1&search_submit=
Burger
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Here is a great review of the show from Charlie Brooker:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/13/charlie-brooker-man-v-food
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/13/charlie-brooker-man-v-food
Eating huge quantities of food is an unobtainable fantasy for some and an everyday luxury for others. To Adam Richman, voracious host of Man V Food (Mon, 9pm, Good Food), it's a career choice.
Man V Food is obscene on many levels, but daft on several more. The format couldn't be much simpler: every week, Richman travels to a city (Memphis this time) and samples its most notorious "pig out joints": the sort of quintessentially American restaurants where everything is charbroiled or smoked or sizzled to death in a deep fat fryer vat the size of a swimming pool; places where each mammoth portion comes with a side order of type two diabetes. Establishments of this kind often tend to have a "challenge" item on the menu – a dish so offensively huge, anyone who successfully manages to eat it has their portrait hung on the wall. The end of each episode sees Richman taking on one of these challenges, hence the title. That's all there is to it.
Essentially this is Top Gear for food: a jokey, blokey exercise in excessive indulgence. It's all sensation, sensation, sensation. Just as Clarkson emits orgasmic whimpers when his driver's seat judders on acceleration, so Richman groans like a man having his perineum tongued by three cheerleaders as he ingests each warm mouthful of stodge. If food is the new porn, this is an all-out orgy between wobbling gutsos and farmyard animals – a snuff orgy, no less, since the latter end up sawn in half and smothered in BBQ sauce.
Plenty of cattle get eaten; at times Richman may as well lie down, open his gob and let a herd stampede directly into his stomach. Entire carcasses are greedily consumed by overweight folk with juice dribbling down their chins, tearing flesh from charred bones with their glistening teeth. It's like sitting in Sawney Bean's cave. Meat and skeletons, meat and skeletons. A sequence in which Richman peers inside an oven at Memphis's premier rib joint to witness a landscape of scorched and smouldering ribcages almost resembles the aftermath of the Dresden firebombing. This is definitely not a programme for vegetarians.
Things reach an insane peak (or more accurately, trough), as Richman takes on the eating challenge. This week he faces the 7 ½ pound "Sasquatch Burger" at the Big Foot Lodge. 1,300 people have attempted to eat one; only four have succeeded. This high failure rate is hardly surprising when you see the bloody thing: it's the size of a sofa cushion. The bun alone accounts for two pounds. The burger itself is an ominous cake of mashed cow as thick as your thigh. When he first tucks in, Richman is chirpy and cocky, shovelling handfuls of meat down his neck with the gluttonous abandon of a self-aware Homer Simpson. Several minutes later, as it becomes clear he still has an immense mountain of food to get through, he appears sickened and woozy – presumably because his blood sugar levels have hit a dangerously narcotic high as his stomach desperately tries to break down the busload of beef that's just appeared inside it. This is the point at which the show stops being fun. It's like watching a man dealing with an instant, unexpected pregnancy.
But what I'd really like to see is what happens the next morning, when the show presumably turns into Man V Poo, as Richman empties the dauntingly substantial, hopelessly compacted contents of his engorged colon, clenching the bathroom doorhandle between his teeth as he attempts to give birth to a leg-sized hunk of fecal sod without killing himself. Cue footage of him sweating, shaking and sobbing like a man impaled on a clay tree, before eventually squeezing out a log with the dimensions and weight of a dead gazelle in a greased sleeping bag. As he mops his brow (and backside), he smiles weakly with exhausted triumph, whispers farewell, and the credits roll. And we've all learned something about the price of excess.
Unknown One
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WHAT!Nabs said:
They better not shit up one of my favorite shows and the channel in general!
Saw an episode today where he tried to eat a 7lb burrito. He got through 6lbs. So close.
However, they showed a restaurant in Vegas that had what they call a " Fried chicken eggs Benedict." it was mashed potatoes, then grilled cheese, then biscuits, then fried chicken, then scrambled eggs, then Benedict sauce. All stacked up. It looked dominant. Do want.
However, they showed a restaurant in Vegas that had what they call a " Fried chicken eggs Benedict." it was mashed potatoes, then grilled cheese, then biscuits, then fried chicken, then scrambled eggs, then Benedict sauce. All stacked up. It looked dominant. Do want.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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Adam has actually managed to push his limit recently. He took on a 7 pound seafood platter in one of the new eps and actually took it down.NJ Shlice said:
Ugh, I absolutely cannot stand that show. I saw the episode where he went to Cedar Point and I was laughing the whole time. Not because of what he was doing, but how he acted.Dresden said:
"OH MY GOD THIS RIDE IS SO INTENSE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOO HOLD ME!!!!!!!!!"
On every. Damn. Ride. It's like how all these food shows always say "Wow, this meat is so tender" and "wow, the spices in here are incredible", except for this show he's always so over the top. It would be like if Adam came in his pants every time he ate something. It's ridiculous.
I mean literally. And you saw the stain in his pants.Chamber said:
That's what Bert is like, he's way over the top. It's obnoxious. And they're roller coasters. You know, those things hundreds of thousands, if not millions of children and adults ride every year?
I sound angry, and dammit I am! That show is so...RRARARARARRAGE.
the 420 hot wings challenge i felt was upstaged... turthfully i don't know how you go farther than this restaurant did (i think it was called caliente) but obviously they specialize in hot foods . There wings use the typical death type sauce ingredient of habenero's and ghost chilis... then just to make it hotter and a whole lot worse i imagine they take pure capsaicin extract and add it to the mix (apparently its been a challenge since like 2000)
short of making a wing using only the extract im not sure how you can make a hotter wing...
short of making a wing using only the extract im not sure how you can make a hotter wing...
Unknown One
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It's a good thing I record all my shows now. Rachel Ray? Ughh she annoys me just as the majority of the Food Network stars, I'm good with Elton Brown though, he's awesome.Zyzyxxz said:
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