Food Wars
Saw the Buffalo show and a part of the Chicago Italian beef show.
I guess you have to build up the confrontational aspect of the shows every week if the premise of the show is all about fanaticism about a certain iconoclastic dish, but I thought the buffalo wings clash, as it were, was a little over the top. Just a bit too fabricated excitement for me.
I liked the fact that they are doing this at the local establishments rather than say Chili's pre-packaged egg roll appetizer versus the Applebee's pre-packed egg roll appetizers.
I also like the fact that I don't have to put up with the outre personalities like Guy Fieri or the snarf everything down antics of Adam Richman, although I do like Richman's personality.
Camille Ford is easygoing enough and she is easy on the eyes. I do like the fact that she seems like she has a healthy appetite. Nothing sexier than a real woman eating real food.
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I agree that the show is not as good as last season with only the 3 judges. I would watch Camile Ford stare at a wall for 1/2 hour, however. The fact that she can pole dance and kick my ass in arm wrestling only makes her more appealing to me......
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The Camille Ford show lost me when they stopped doing blind tastings, and cut the number of judges to three. Amazing how she always has to break the tie. I like her a lot; just wish the fix wasn't so obviously in. The other show, the guy goes through all the judging stuff, then says the only opinion that counts is his. But again, he knows what he's eating, so his opinion isn't necessarily to be trusted as to being based on the food. Not that I (or you or anybody else) would necessarily pick the same one as him or Camille Ford.
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coney with everything
Mar 15, 2010 05:12 AM
Haven't seen the eps you are discussing, but looking forward eagerly to the Detroit episode...coneys!
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re: coney with everything
coney with everything
Mar 18, 2010 07:31 AM
And...because no moderately successful concept on TV goes uncopied, it sounds like FN is pretty much running Food Wars through the old scanner to produce...FOOD FEUD!
No, really...it's different...really.
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re: coney with everything
I liked the fried chicken episode. I didn't know Kansas was such a hot spot for fried chicken.
By the way; if you bring up Thomas Keller's book: Ad Hoc at Home, on Amazon his (full) recipe for fried chicken is given in the book description. I've made it once and highly recommend giving it a try. I had never made fried chicken before, and I'm not really that into it, but I received very enthusiastic feedback from fried chicken lovers.-
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re: tomatoaday
Phaedrus
Mar 18, 2010 10:25 AM
This is why they like to do this kind of shows. Which is why I like this show too. It gives you a good resource to sample the local foods at a locale which is unique for the region. A place I never would have known about.
This is actually why I joined Chowhound: to do research on restaurants where ever life may take me.
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re: tomatoaday
Stroud's does have an outpost in Fairway, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, MO, where Stroud's is based. Now that RC's is closed, I'm not sure Stroud's has a real rival. One of the reasons why I think Food Wars works is that they pit two places that have actual rivalries -- it isn't just a matter of which place makes the best X. Pittsburg, Kansas is a two-hour drive from the Missouri border, and having two such stellar places in a small town is not a coincidence -- Mary's wouldn't have existed without Annie's.
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I kind of like its approach of having blind folded judges determine the favorite. There's a lot of hype and bias when it comes to town favorites, like in newspaper surveys. A lot of people say, "Place X is better than Place Y. I've been going there for 30 years, and I never go anywhere else." Well if you never go anywhere else, then you don't really know what's good, do you? 5 people is kind of a small sampling size, and it's even worse because they use 2 so called "superfans". That kind of just tests the so called superfan's ability to determine their favorite under blindfold. That reality TV style cut to, build excitement, cut to commercial, then rehash is really irritating. I just fast forward on TiVo to the end to see who won.
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raidar
Mar 11, 2010 04:13 PM
Just finished both episodes. Not bad, a little repetitive so it'll be interesting to see if it can last longer than a few episodes without feeling blah. Camille is a nice change, and isn't over the top which makes it better. Average TV from the Travel Chanel I guess.
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re: jackbauer
The show didn't do much for me and the two episodes were exactly the same. One show had wings and one had beef. I'm guessing it's going be pretty much the same every week with a slightly different food. I do like seeing places I'll probably never get to but I'd rather watch Man vs Food or Triple D.
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