# Translation of Anthony Bourdain's diss of Guy Ferry
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 19, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569 "2015-07-19T01:55:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/1 "2015-07-19T01:55:48Z")
Cited numerous places, but [here’s one](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/07/15/anthony-bourdain-ina-garten-guy-fieri-adam-richman/).
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> He’s 52 years old and still rolling around in the flame outfit … What does he do? How does Guy Fieri de-douche?
I just don’t get it.😕
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/2 "2015-07-19T01:57:38Z")
Bourdain is simply asking what procedure would Guy use to make himself not such a large douche?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/3 "2015-07-19T02:05:41Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/4 "2015-07-19T15:06:39Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/5 "2015-07-19T15:11:03Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/6 "2015-07-19T15:26:25Z")
I wonder who was model and who was the copy?
[Slurms Mckenzie](http://comedycentral.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/Futurama/Videos/season_1/Futurama_01_0113_commercial_640x360.jpg?) or [Guy Fieri](https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/6pxXzeGQkbhxau3TO8kVSM2lBjc=/0x47:500x328/1600x900/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38849646/12121231232012_guy_fieri_times_Square1-thumb.0.jpeg).
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/7 "2015-07-19T16:06:15Z")
What is there to “not get” about his comment? It’s pretty straightforward.
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### Author:  [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/8 "2015-07-19T18:38:58Z")
I’m more interested in his [comments](http://www.atlantamagazine.com/dining-news/anthony-bourdain-roars-into-the-fox-theater-rips-on-guy-fieri-and-other-food-celebrities/) on Ina Garten:
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> I love Ina Garten. She’s one of the few people on Food Network who can actually cook. When Ina Garten roasts a chicken, she roasts it correct. When Ina Garten makes mashed potatoes, those are some solid mashed potatoes. In many ways I want Ina’s life. I don’t want to live in her house. I don’t want to spend a weekend there. It gets weird in Ina Land . . . Oh, when Jeffrey gets home, he’ll be so happy I made meatloaf. And then he comes home and you’re pretty sure he’s not into meatloaf.
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.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/9 "2015-07-19T18:50:07Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/10 "2015-07-19T20:31:49Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#):
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> What is there to “not get” about his comment? It’s pretty straightforward.
OK, since you axed, I’ll help you out:
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> He’s 52 years old. . .
I got that part.
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> still rolling around in the flame outfit
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.
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> … What does he do? How does Guy Fieri de-douche?
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.’
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/11 "2015-07-19T20:42:53Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> OK, since you axed, I’ll help you out: I got that part.
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/12 "2015-07-19T21:33:14Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/13 "2015-07-19T21:43:21Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#):
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> 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 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.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/14 "2015-07-19T22:29:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/15 "2015-07-19T22:42:23Z")
Does anyone else remember [this three-year-old review](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html) 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.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/16 "2015-07-19T22:44:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/17 "2015-07-19T22:58:14Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/18 "2015-07-19T23:31:49Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/19 "2015-07-19T23:38:06Z")
> [@mind\_the\_gap](#):
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> 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’d want to hang with Bourdain, but he wouldn’t want to hang with me. That’s the way it always is.
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> 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.’
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.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-of-anthony-bourdains-diss-of-guy-ferry/725569/20 "2015-07-19T23:44:38Z")
> [@Honey](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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](http://www.afterellen.com/tv/417129-guy-fieri-speaks-late-gay-sister-marrying-sex-couples-florida) in Florida.
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> This past weekend, Food Network star Guy Fieri officiated a mass wedding for 101 same-sex couples in Miami, Florida, celebrating the state’s recent lift of its ban on equal marriage. Organized by celebrity chef (and Florida native) Art Smith, the event was held on Miami Beach and ended with a celebration including a seven tier cake made by yet another celebrity chef, Duff Goldman.
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