# devilsknew, please stop trying to channel Bourdain (mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 3, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668 "2009-01-03T02:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/1 "2009-01-03T02:46:03Z")
Look, you have some useful input on food-related threads, but (a) your personal experiences are not the One True Way, and (b) could you please dial back the rhetoric a bit? Latest example starts toward the end of page 1 in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499953). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/2 "2009-01-03T03:28:17Z")
I don’t know a Bourdain from a hole in the wall, but the repeated talk about unhealthy relationships with food just randomly thrown into threads is bizarre. The thread in the OP has it. > [@](#): > > Generally, I’ve found that you people have extremely unhealthy relationships to food and numerous neuroses. [This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10596984&postcount=53) about soup has him replying to himself a number of times and then all of a sudden: > [@](#): > > Some of you people really have me worrying about your unhealthy relationship to food. It’s like he has this programming that spits out this line of dialogue every so often, no matter if it fits. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/3 "2009-01-03T03:37:54Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > Look, you have some useful input on food-related threads, but (a) your personal experiences are not the One True Way, and (b) could you please dial back the rhetoric a bit? > > Latest example starts toward the end of page 1 in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499953). I’m Rick James, Bitch! :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/4 "2009-01-03T03:47:59Z")
I think you have an unhealthy relationship to the spirit of Rick James. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/5 "2009-01-03T04:00:24Z")
Isn’t any relationship with the spirit of Rick James unhealthy? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/6 "2009-01-03T04:18:12Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I don’t know a Bourdain from a hole in the wall, but the repeated talk about unhealthy relationships with food just randomly thrown into threads is bizarre. The thread in the OP has it. Anthony Bourdain is the self-styled bad boy of the culinairy world. He has a show on one of the cable networks called No Reservations, and a good portion of his schtick is mocking Rachael Ray and the Food Network. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/7 "2009-01-03T04:19:12Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Isn’t any relationship with the spirit of Rick James unhealthy? What kind of food does Rick James taste like? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/8 "2009-01-03T04:21:36Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > What kind of food does Rick James taste like? Stupid food. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/9 "2009-01-03T04:23:13Z")
Could someone explain the Rick James reference please? I googled him and read the whole wiki and still don’t get the reference. ---
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/10 "2009-01-03T04:29:47Z")
that’s just bizarre. from reading these threads, devilknews reminds me of those stubborn chefs/owners on Kitchen Nightmares that always thinks that all his critics, including his own customers and Gordon Ramsey, are always wrong for one reason or another. And of course the show usually ends with a “… and this restaurant succumbed to debt six weeks later” sign-off. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/11 "2009-01-03T04:32:31Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > Could someone explain the Rick James reference please? I googled him and read the whole wiki and still don’t get the reference. [Fuck yo couch nigga!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKT3-FdOLYM&feature=related) And no, I have no idea why he used it in that context. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/12 "2009-01-03T04:37:52Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > [Fuck yo couch nigga!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKT3-FdOLYM&feature=related) > > And no, I have no idea why he used it in that context. Context isn’t one of his strong suits. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/13 "2009-01-03T04:53:21Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > And no, I have no idea why he used it in that context. > [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Context isn’t one of his strong suits. Oh um, thanks. But I was kinda more wondering what he was saying in regards to this thread. But now I’m getting it, I think. It’s just all surreal random stuff, which is why the OP is Pitting him, I guess. To the OP, maybe your OP should be broader. It’s not just food related stuff but random stuff out of nowhere as well. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/14 "2009-01-03T04:57:06Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > . . . a good portion of his schtick is mocking Rachael Ray. . . . Then he can’t be that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/15 "2009-01-03T05:14:15Z")
I like him. \*\*devilsknew \*\*doesn’t do a very good impression, though. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/16 "2009-01-03T16:40:48Z")
Now, now - without **devilsknew** , we wouldn’t know that microplanes were tools of the elite, meant to keep the hard-working poor down. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devilsknew-please-stop-trying-to-channel-bourdain-mild/479668/17 "2009-01-03T17:02:55Z")
> [@susan\_foster](#): > > Now, now - without **devilsknew** , we wouldn’t know that microplanes were tools of the elite, meant to keep the hard-working poor down. Plus, he is a poet, and no one knows it.