The only TV I watch is DDD on UK food network. Happy to watch two episodes concurrently.
That food just looks so good, so much variety, such a good show.
That show is everything wrong with the current direction the Food Network has taken. It is the worst, and Guy Fieri is worse than that. He’s a pushy asshole who talks over everyone he interviews, too. Which just puts me off whatever food he’s showing (I agree it’s often great-looking food). I’m a big fan of a lot of American diner & BBQ culture, but that man is the worst possible curator of that awesome heritage.
I’d much rather watch a nice BBC food show, like Andy Bates or Rachel Koo. People where I don’t feel like they’re constantly shouting in my ear.
But it’s the only thing left that’s not a competition or has anything do with cakes and cupcakes.
I miss shows like Good Eats and $40 a Day, and detest nearly everything about Food Network these days. Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is a nice break from the competitive drivel.
I liked when DDD went to Doumar’s in Norfolk, which I’ve been to a number of times.
I can’t watch a celebrity “chef” who looks like he has an Axe vapor cloud permanently enveloping him. I mean, that can’t be good for the food.
I’d like to see the British version of Triple D. Actually I love British food shows. I have Gordon Ramsay’s “The F Word” and BBC America to thank for that 
Our version of Triple D…I usually catch it on the weekend overnights when I’m getting ready for work. I agree, Guy does find the funkiest places with the very interesting food. However, hearing him screech at 3AM is another story. I sometimes turn down the volume because of him.
There have been a few instances where somebody he’s interviewing will flip everything right back to him. You can tell he’s not expecting it. When he plays along with it it’s a riot.
Don’t know if the UK version is any different, but based on having been to several of the places that have been on the American show I assume the food is similarly oversold.
I like DDD in small doses, but it’s not something I would binge watch. I do like to go to the restaurants featured on the show when I am traveling. There is a good app for that called Food Network On the Road that will locate all the restaurants near your location that have been on any Food Network show, and they can be filtered by show, chef, cuisine, etc.
He’s not quite as bad as some people make him out to be; he may be douchey, but he does seem to be pretty friendly and engaging on the show, and he’s always very complimentary to the restaurant owners and chefs.
And I’ve eaten at a few places he’s had on the show- excellent food at all of them.
Oddly enough, DDD is one of those go-to shows I’ll watch when I’m in the mood for something very positive to watch; there’s no drama and there’s nothing negative about the show- just Guy being positive and letting people show off their restaurant’s specialties. Few shows can say that- most seem to have a competitive or dramatic element these days. I like Andrew Zimmern’s “Delicious Destinations” for the same reason.
The concept of the show is great, but Guy Ferry (his real name) is a simulacrum of a human being. Everything about him, including his name, is fake and I can’t bear to watch him.
Sometimes this show is playing at the gym and I find that I can tolerate it better without sound. But there’s something about the frenetic editing of the show that is exhausting; no shot lasts more than 2 seconds and I guess I’m officially too old for that #*$(.
You know, he may just be the smartest “celebrity” out there.
I think if I were to be famous, then I’d love it so that a fake me was famous, allowing me to go back to the “real” me when I wanted.
Although the show focuses on places with obscene portions, I do like that the food featured is made from scratch. Unlike Robert Irvine’s show you never see a Sysco label anywhere. I think there should be a program where restaurants that could be on Guy’s show teach candidates for Robert’s show how to run a restaurant.
Fieri was his great grandfather’s name when he came to America where it was changed to Ferry.
Guy changed his name back to the original when he got married.
He’s not cooking any of it though.
I love the show. I especially love going to the featured placing whenever they are in driving distance. Been to about 15. I have had some really great stuff!
Ironically, I suppose, the worst experience from a DDD spot has been his own place, Johnny Garlic’s. We were very underwhelmed.
I like the show and I don’t mid Guy. I think it’s funny when someone puts an egg on top of something he has to eat. He always flips it off to the side.
I don’t care about any of that, I like it bold, brassy and shallow and American. I hate English cooking programs. I don’t want to see any more of Jamie Oliver, or Two Fat Bitches, or Nigella Sodding Middle Class Wank Fantasy.
Keith Floyd was alright.
Guy eats eggs and brains.
It’s pretty clear he finds the dish less than appealing.
Hey, I’m an old fart and I don’t mind the way Guy looks. He’s no more annoying than most TV hosts. And when you have a program called Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives there’s something to be said for having someone who looks like they might be a patron of such establishments.
I love the program. When I’ve flipping through the channels late at night (when it’s on here in Panama) it’s one of the few shows I can put on without worrying what point of the program it is.
It’s like food porn. If I ate that kind of stuff regularly I’d weigh 300 pounds, but it’s nice to ogle it. It’s also interesting to see how restaurant-sized quantities of food are prepared.
It’s definitely food porno, all those different types of burgers and burritos with lurid coloured spicy sauces on them, all glistening and juicy and fattening and tempting.