Cited numerous places, but here’s one.
I just don’t get it.
Bourdain is simply asking what procedure would Guy use to make himself not such a large douche?
He’s actually 47, but the criticism is the same: he fashion choices are questionable on someone more than half his age, but at least at that age your have the excuse of being young and dumb. I have no doubt that Fieri’s “brand” is very lucrative for him, but that doesn’t make him any less punchable. Bourdain wonders if Fieri sleeps in Ed Hardy pajamas.
He dresses/acts like a douchey frat boy, its pathetic for a person his age, but his professional image is so tied up in his lame, juvenile persona, he can never undouche himself nor act like a person you wouldn’t want to punch forever.
I’ve watched 'em both. I’d rather hang with Bourdain, but I suspect I’d want to punch him from time to time also.
I wonder who was model and who was the copy?
Slurms Mckenzie or Guy Fieri.
What is there to “not get” about his comment? It’s pretty straightforward.
I’m more interested in his comments on Ina Garten:
He seems to imply that Jeffrey’s toast is not buttered on the heterosexual side. If you’ve ever seen Jeffrey on Ina’s show you’ll know what he means, but it’s a rather cheap shot.
What’s the point of mashing potatoes if what you end up with is a solid lump? Isn’t that what a potato starts as? Thanks, but I prefer my mashed potatoes verging on semi-liquid from all the cream and butter.
I’d hang out with both, but the urge to punch them would always be present.
OK, since you axed, I’ll help you out:
I got that part.
I’ve out of touch with a lot of pop culture, but I don’t know what a ‘flame outfit’ is. To me ‘rolling around in a flame’ sounds like something you do when your clothes are on fire.
I find Guy incredibly annoying, but how much of that is shtick and how much is Guy, I don’t know, but I don’t find him a ‘douche.’
Google “guy fieri flame outfit”. He actually wears outfits with flames on them. It’s not some sort of euphemism.
If you do an image search for Guy Fieri, you’ll find many in which he’s wearing a flame outfit and more than a few in which the picture is labeled douche.
I wonder about people like Fieri. If that look was strictly his “image”, then it’d actually be pretty smart.
Imagine being able to take the ridiculous clothes off, wash off the gaudy tattoos and blond highlights and just walk around society as an average Joe. Then put all that crap back on when time to douche it up in front of the cameras.
He’d have the best of both worlds.
I’m a Guy Fieri sympathizer. His show (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives) started out good, Guy started developing a taste for places with some over the top ingredient combos (4 hamburger patties, a layer of hashbrowns, 18 pieces of bacon, three different nacho cheeses, and a chipotle-lime-chorizo mayo, all sandwiched between two giant fried pork tenderloins!!!), and has since settled into visiting places more towards the foodie side of the scale that I’d happy visit any day of the week. His own restaurants are beyond off the scale (or rather “chain” or “hook”, and certainly well passed Flavor Town, USA), but as others have said - that’s his own brand.
Does anyone else remember this three-year-old review of Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, the restaurant Guy Fieri opened in Times Square? It’s mostly written in the form of questions posed to Guy Fieri, about how horrible the restaurant was.
Bourdain is a douche. I’ve thought so ever since he said on television that he couldn’t find a single decent restaurant to eat in in Los Angeles.
Douche != asshole, although there is some overlap. It is a particular brand of person who believes that trucker hats, plaid “fedoras,” Ed Hardy, polo shirts, and frosted tips actually looks cool.
I find the oddest thing about Guy is that he hates eggs. If someone on DDD cooks him something with an egg on top, he flicks it off to the side.
I don’t mind him though. His restaurants do well, and have since before he won The Next Food Network Star. He turned his win into a lot of shows, so he must be doing something right.
I’d want to hang with Bourdain, but he wouldn’t want to hang with me. That’s the way it always is.
He’s pretty much the epitome of a douche. I can’t see his face without wanting to slap him and tell him to go to his room.
There have been a (very)few cases that he ate a bite of egg.
And last Feb, he officiated at a mass same-sex wedding in Florida.