# More, 'Beware of your heroes' (Alton Brown) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793 "2020-11-17T14:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/1 "2020-11-17T14:03:12Z")
Alton Brown’s own private holocaust: > **[Alton Brown Comes Out as Republican, Fires Off Tasteless Holocaust Tweets](https://www.thedailybeast.com/foot-network-host-alton-brown-comes-out-as-republican-makes-tasteless-holocaust-tweets)** > > Inside the celebrity chef’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week online. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/2 "2020-11-17T14:45:23Z")
OK, so the Holocaust related tweets were dumb and insensitive but not enough for torches and pitchforks I think. Especially with the fast apology. For the rest of it, Brown wrote > that while he’s “voted republican in previous years,” he both “voted for and strongly support[s]” Biden and Kamala Harris, along with Georgia Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, ahead of the January runoff election. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/3 "2020-11-17T14:48:03Z")
I don’t think Alton Brown is an anti-semite because of his comments or because he votes republican. I think Alton Brown seems to have a lack a filter and runs his mouth in stupid directions. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/4 "2020-11-17T14:49:18Z")
There are an awful lot of people that have that problem and no shortage that should stay away from twitter. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/5 "2020-11-17T15:00:03Z")
You gotta admit though, there is something squalid about the direction he chose to go with his analogy. If he was really in need for a good visual, he could have gone with Soviet era gulags, or Orwellian 1984 re-education camps. But no. He went with the holocaust, striped pajamas and gold fillings. Pings my radar. Y’know? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/6 "2020-11-17T15:04:53Z")
Did anyone see him on Worst Cooks? He is not a nice man with a lot of anger that is barely controlled. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/7 "2020-11-17T15:23:30Z")
Never cared much for the guy and really never got the adulation. I’ll stick with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/8 "2020-11-17T15:26:58Z")
I was somewhat surprised when I watched one of his YouTube videos a month or so ago and he kept randomly interjecting the fun cooking stuff with “Hunter Biden!” like some demented parrot. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/9 "2020-11-17T15:29:25Z")
There was a time some years ago when I’d watch Food Network and ‘Good Eats’ was among my favorite shows because it was _science-y_. I liked the nostalgia of him going back to re-do some of those shows with an updated format. As a cooking show host, AB was more interesting than most. Kenji is great. But it’s an entirely different format/venue. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/10 "2020-11-17T15:31:17Z")
Really? I wasn’t aware. That’s just fucking weird. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/11 "2020-11-17T15:42:55Z")
I enjoyed his election night “[meltdown](https://www.mashed.com/272273/alton-browns-pre-election-twitter-meltdown-is-turning-heads/)” but I’ve learned not to pay too much attention to celebrities and either enjoy their works or not. I guess that “meltdown” was followed by some much more messed up stuff. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/12 "2020-11-17T16:51:38Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > There was a time some years ago when I’d watch Food Network and ‘Good Eats’ was among my favorite shows because it was _science-y_ . I liked the nostalgia of him going back to re-do some of those shows with an updated format. As a cooking show host, AB was more interesting than most. Precisely concur, word for word. That said, he does seem to have simmering anger - or else _that’s_ played up for T.V. like the American version of Gordon Ramsey, who isn’t nearly as prone to screaming as you’d think, and is actually quite gentle with children. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/13 "2020-11-17T16:59:14Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > That said, he does seem to have simmering anger… Life, being what it is, there’s plenty to be angry about. I find him relatable on some level. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > …Gordon Ramsey, who isn’t nearly as prone to screaming as you’d think, and is actually quite gentle with children. Well, you have to be. They’re a lot like veal, or fish. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/14 "2020-11-17T17:00:33Z")
I’m going to hell for laughing as hard as I did at that, aren’t I? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/15 "2020-11-17T17:05:08Z")
What is it about chefs having personality issues? Ramsey, Brown, Bourdain, never mind Jeff Smith. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/16 "2020-11-17T17:08:11Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > …Bourdain… You shut your mouth! ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/17 "2020-11-17T17:08:41Z")
I thought it was well known that Alton Brown was a conservative Republican. I’m glad that he’s pissed at the fawning over Trump and voted Dem in this election (seems like a lot of suburban Atlanta Republicans did - AB lives in Marietta, just NW of Atlanta). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/18 "2020-11-17T17:22:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Never cared much for the guy and really never got the adulation. I’ll stick with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. Kenji is our go to. He seems like a genuinely nice guy. And his cookbooks are awesome. We’ve never cared for Alton. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/19 "2020-11-17T17:32:44Z")
I will say that I’ve met Alton and he seemed to be the nicest dude ever. It’s little silly to be shocked that a white guy from Georgia has voted Republican in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793/20 "2020-11-17T17:43:04Z")
I remember reading an interview he did years ago when he was going through a divorce. I recall he made it clear he was a conservative and he usually carried a bible and CCW. So that part is hardly a new revelation. Making holocaust jokes, regardless of intent, is a total dick move and my knee-jerk reaction is to assume the joker is anti-semitic on some level. I always enjoyed _Good Eats_ because I’m very much a visual learner and he was the most accessible of the “chefs” on TV (Although I really liked Laura Clader as well). A lot of his recipes were a little… bland, but as someone upthread mentioned he liked to present the science behind cooking and give the viewer the _why_. I liked that, and would make notes as I watched reruns of his show. But _GE_ is old news by now. I haven’t had cable or satellite for years, but from what I understand his TV persona has morphed from a kind of goofy science teacher into an angry judgmental prick. Perhaps his early _GE_ persona was all for show, or maybe he’s just become bitter and angry as he ages. [The article notes he made a joke to a kid: “If that guy next to you is your _other_ daddy, I’m in the _wrong_ state.” I don’t get it, but it sounds like a pedo joke.] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-beware-of-your-heroes-alton-brown/925793.md?page=2)