# What happened to the Food Network?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 7, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-food-network/484820 "2009-02-07T18:30:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-food-network/484820/54 "2009-02-09T03:21:07Z")

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> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Its the same thing that happened to the [del]Hitler[/del] History Channel, AMC, TLC, A&E, and other cable networks. The Suits decided that they wanted to make more money, so they changed the programming to match that of other channels. Thus proving what one SubGenius right when he said, “Television is the giant butter knife that spreads the poison of a smooth, homogenius peanut butter across the US.”

Boy, I used to make Hitler Channel cracks but I didn’t know back then how good I had it.

I might have appreciated those WWII documenteries more if I knew that later it’d become the “Quest for the Lost Mysteries of Chupacabra as Foretold By Druids When a UFO Visited Them” Channel.

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