Nobody gives a rip if he’s “right” or not, really. He can pronounce it “bananahammock”, and he’d technically be “right”. I’m also going to think he’s a gigantic ass, and no amount of arguing will persuade me otherwise.
It’s not his “fake” name. I have Italian family members that still speak English with an Italian accent and I’ve been to Italy on multiple occasions. Fieri isn’t pronouncing his name wrong. It’s pronounced just the way he’s pronouncing it here.
Thumb rings, bowling shirts, and making wacky mugging-for-the-camera grimaces just happen to be high on my “driving me to violent acts” list, so dude didn’t have a chance.
The problem is, I remember when I watched him on the “Next Food Network Star” season that he was competing on, and he wasn’t acting like a giant douche. Sure, he was a little “wild” or whatever, but he wasn’t being all Mr. Shouty and stuff. Apparently people really do want this - that also explains the popularity of the “craft store threw up on a dinner table” tablescapes and weird food substitutions of the First Girlfriend of NY State (aka Sandra Lee).
Bourdain acts like an asshole at times, but he really, really knows his stuff, and his No Reservations show has him maybe smarmy at worst, and usually only in anything approaching asshole-mode when he’s in a First World country. He is nearly always a very compassionate, appreciative guest; the worst I saw from him was an episode in (IIRC) a very poor region in Africa (I think it was the Ghana episode) where he was having physical difficulty eating some of the food that these poor people had to eat for survival. And really, that part wasn’t his fault. Yes, he’s brutal to chain restaurants and such - oh, I’m sure they’re just all torn up about that. He’s not visiting there anyway, so no big deal.
And the robbery - that kind of skill really is pretty impressive! Leaving the bag of climbing gear behind may have been a mistake, though, if there’s anything traceable in it.
Yeah, it sounds so ocean’s 11-y that my first response was, “for real?”
Damn, there’s some people wound pretty tight around here, plus have time to get bent out of shape over how somebody pronounces their name :dubious:
Frankly, I don’t give a damn
I don’t watch his studio cooking series, Big Bite, or whatever it’s called. Just don’t enjoy it. However, I do enjoy his Diner, Drive-ins & Dives series. I enjoy seeing what is being cooked, and how, and whether or not I can pick up some additional tips along the way. Does he mug for the camera? Sure - again, I don’t give a damn. Other than being the tour guide, he’s a secondary part of the show.
He’s better on * Secrets of a Restaurant Chef*.
All well-stated. I don’t care about Fieri enough to take a stand - I find his style to carry many of the attributes I associate with douchebaggery, but if more consistent watchers assert that there is genuinely knowledgeable chef-person filling inside a douchebag wrapper, fine by me. And for “wishing car theft” on him - nah; just using the fact of it to start a thread on a douchebag, er, douchebag-appearing guy…not worth the schadenfreude…
Bwaaahahaha
Of course, Anne Burrell is really Guy Fieri in drag 
Dolores: What are those assholes doing on the porch?
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Those aren’t assholes. It’s pronounced azaleas.
I have never watched anything of his other than the 7 second clip linked to further up the thread, so I can’t really speak to his douchieness. However I will comment on two things:
- based on the aforementioned clip that is how the vast majority of proper italian speaking Italians would pronounce Fieri
- I would venture a guess that he chaged his name back to Fieri because of the association of Italian names / food with good eatin, as opposed to the very anglized Ferry, (mmmmmm, fish and chips).
That was funny.
“Rock out with your hock out. FULL THROTTLE!!!”
I have to admit, I like Diners Drive-ins and Dives, but two pages of this crap and nobody has mentioned the sunglasses worn backwards.
That alone suggests he’s up to his ears in vinegar water.
Personally, I’ve decided I’m going to drink every time he says"dynamite" or some variation of that word. Otherwise it would get pretty annoying hearing him say it repeatedly.
Anyone else?