# Bobby Flay will die a dishonorable death

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-flay-will-die-a-dishonorable-death/21929 "2000-06-10T03:17:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-flay-will-die-a-dishonorable-death/21929/21 "2000-06-11T05:12:28Z")

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> As a stone fan of Peasant Food, I really dislike the way Flay tarts up a dignified, satisfying cuisine. Bring on the beans and tortillas and barbecued cabrito, I say, and you can stuff your Tartine de Queso Blanco with Chilpotle Remoulade up your butt.  
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That’s what happens when you send someone who was probably a decent cook in the first place, and send them for brainwashing at a French-based-study Culinary School? They go around French-ifying everything, and everything in the menu starts looking far too frou-frou… \*Dinde Roulaude, Gateau de la Foret-Noire, Poivrons Farcis, Salade de Haricots \*. I mean, how can you dare turn something so simple and twist it into such a silly, frivolous little dish–only someone insane enough to go to school on how to cook can only… what? Why, yes, I’m in the Cordon-Bleu progra… oh.

I’m a great fan of “peasant food” myself–that’s actually a big part of the problem I’m having in my classes due to the fact that most of my fellow students go for fancy, crazy shit, when I believe in a good, solid Burgundy Beef Stew and Mashed Potatoes. You don’t need a Lobster Napoleon with Chive Tweels, Guacamole, Mango Salsa, and Basil Oil to satisfy an appetite.

Flay’s gonna show up as being nothing but flash and a little charm when put to the grind. A match between Flay and Morimoto is like putting Anna Nicole Smith in a debate over the origins of the universe with Carl Sagan.

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