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Guy Fieri is an awesome dude
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Guy Fieri is MY president. I unapologetically stan this dude, hes done alot for charity and disasters and doesn't flaunt his name while doing it. Sure his look is easy to knock as corny, but the dude is 100 percent legit good guy/wholesome AF
Last I paid attention to him he was getting shit for being homophobic and I had heard he was kind of an arrogant prick. I was disappointed cause before that I liked him. Was that found out to be wrong (I haven't paid attention to him in a while).
He appears to be a douche with the frosted hair and annoying catch phrases, but I think the hate only really started when that one notorious NYT review came out. I also heard some shit about homophobia, but that seems to have faded away.
Anyway, it's nice to see a kind hearted celebrity giving back to the world.
Anyway, it's nice to see a kind hearted celebrity giving back to the world.
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Following Up on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Disaster
In regards to that "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Disaster" story in which producer David Page accuses Guy Fieri of being an anti-semitic homophobic control freak with an irrational love of shorts and...
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I really like his show. He spotlights a lot of businesses doing some honest, great cooking. And those businesses usually benefited from it. He came here to Virginia and every restaurant he highlighted became more popular (well I think one got sold, but it wasn't due to lack of business).
He's goofy, but that's his schtick. It made him wealthy beyond what many of us will ever know, so hey. More power to him.
He's goofy, but that's his schtick. It made him wealthy beyond what many of us will ever know, so hey. More power to him.
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The restaurant fund he helped organize got me $500, which is better than the zero dollars my actual job has paid me during all this, so hey, he's alright.
I got the Era part wrong, it was back at GAF (apparently like a week or two before the whole shitshow went down) but there were a hell of a lot more than just 2 people shitting on him. It was pathetic and embarrassing.
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T-Bone Tom's, which is down the street from me, and Lankford's groceries. in truth, T-Bone Tom's has always done well, but him going to Lankford's completely changed their business. I had never heard of Lankfords until it was on DDD, talked to the owner and they said they were on the verge of shutting down until he came. For a couple of years after he'd come, they would have lines to get in because it became so incredibly popular.
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Kemah is fucking owned by Tillman and his Landry's chains, so it's massive that Fieri came to T-Bone Tom's and gave them enough popularity to compete against the massive boardwalk.
interesting. I worked in that area a while back, so I've been to tbone Tom's, but not Lankford's
ill have to look for those episodes
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Lankford's is outside of downtown in the old part of Houston. It's a converted house, used to be in the middle of a neighborhood but it's all been gentrified so it's surrounded by huge condos now. It looks like a house out of time. Their burgers are the shit.
His Hot Ones episode was great and made me like him a lot more. Dude is a good person and like you said OP, he puts his money where his mouth is when it comes to helping others.
His taste in food may not line up with mine, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything negative about his character
Years ago he and Anthony Bourdain really disliked each other and had a public feud. This caused a lot of people to feel the need to pick sides and naturally a lot of younger people on the internet gravitated towards team Bourdain. I think that was the source of some of the hate Fieri got.
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Yeah I remember it. It was the wildest thread lol.
Serving good food for free to those affected by or fighting the fires, and most chose to shit on him.
Embarrasing thread.
He was ruined for me due to the jabooody dubs portrayal of him. And by ruined I mean it's all I can think of now
Turning point for me was this little aside from The Onion years ago, which really concisely captures the way in which we collectively come to dislike or like certain figures for unsupported reasons.
Even better with time as I came to know that he appears to be a genuinely stand up good person.
Even better with time as I came to know that he appears to be a genuinely stand up good person.
He was never a TV personality that I enjoyed watching, though I greatly respect him from many of these stories that I've heard about him over the years. Most of the hate that I've seen were memes regarding his look and style, but they seemed to die down over the last few years.
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Speaking of Bourdain, one of my friend's fiance was his personal chaperone when he came to Houston for an episode of his show. They don't show it in the episode, but he made her buy him drugs, because "lean" is part of the Houston cuisine. She was originally hesitant, but he said he'd get her fired if she didn't. So, she drove around some rough parts of Houston looking for codeine for him to drink.
EDIT: Actually, he tweeted about it despite it not being in the episode:
He was drinking lean during this tweet.
I've never really seen much of Bourdain's output myself, but from afar he gave off asshole vibes. I chalked it up to his whole culinary-bad-boy personal brand giving me unpleasant vibes, not so dissimilarly to how Fieri's Crazy-Town-reunion-concert-at-the-rodeo thing coloured my perception of him, so it's interesting to hear an anecdote like this.
People, of course, are more than what they do and how they behave in a singular moment; I'm not taking this as proof that my slight apprehension around Bourdain is now completely vindicated based off one second-hand story. The dude was troubled, too, which comes with all sorts of behavioural baggage for the best of us. But yeah, just interesting to hear something less than hagiographic given his unfortunate passing.
I think there is a lot of merit to 'de-mystifying' some finer foods like Guy has done in his career, even if rebranding ailoi as 'donkey sauce' is going to make someone bristle, it helps people to expand their palettes. I never thought much of him one way or the other because I've never seen his shows but I did find the pile-on for his times square location more than excessive: like, it's a times square destination restaurant, what would you expect?
I'm glad see a television personality as charitable as he is.
I'm glad see a television personality as charitable as he is.
Damn, he sounds like an asshole. I've seen people praise Bourdain and shit on Fieri, but today I'm learning it's reversed in reality.
Maybe it was in the past, but I barely remember any outright hate for the guy. Maybe meme'd to a degree I'm sure, but I feel like he's easily proved himself to be a good person so I doubt most of it was malicious.
I roll my eyes when I hear of celebs being accused of being arrogant or stand-offish. You try being approached constantly to chit chat, asked to pose for a selfie, free t-shits or whatever people ask for. Constantly.
Whenever we travel in the US, we always search for DD&D restaurants near our destinations. Guy is a damn national treasure.
Whenever we travel in the US, we always search for DD&D restaurants near our destinations. Guy is a damn national treasure.
There would be so many asshole stories about me if I were famous. I definitely wouldn't be able to handle people constantly trying to interact with me.
Considering how long he's been around and the fact he's out there all over the place meeting all types of people I'd have guessed something would have come out a long time ago.
"We used to hate people
Now we just make fun of them
It's more effective that way"
So the aesthetic.. his brand? Just rubs me the wrong way, but that's on me and is superficial.
My first time becoming aware of him was years ago when I was living in the Tenderloin in SF. I was at my local dive bar when a group of people I knew came rushing in saying one of them got into a fistfight with GF and his film crew while they were shooting an episode at Tommy's Joynt. According to them (corroborated by someone I knew who worked there at the time) Guy was really unhappy with the fact these people didn't seem to give a shit about his show, deemed them to be fucking up the feel of the shoot, tried to get them thrown out, and a scuffle ensued. So that's my "shitty Guy Fieri" story.
However I also moved to Santa Rosa last year and my experience with him and his support and philanthropy in my new community here has been nothing but incredibly positive. So that's my "good guy Guy Fiery" story.
My first time becoming aware of him was years ago when I was living in the Tenderloin in SF. I was at my local dive bar when a group of people I knew came rushing in saying one of them got into a fistfight with GF and his film crew while they were shooting an episode at Tommy's Joynt. According to them (corroborated by someone I knew who worked there at the time) Guy was really unhappy with the fact these people didn't seem to give a shit about his show, deemed them to be fucking up the feel of the shoot, tried to get them thrown out, and a scuffle ensued. So that's my "shitty Guy Fieri" story.
However I also moved to Santa Rosa last year and my experience with him and his support and philanthropy in my new community here has been nothing but incredibly positive. So that's my "good guy Guy Fiery" story.
I legit love Guy Fieri. He is the comfort food of food television. Is his stuff demanding or refined? No. But sometimes you just want a hamburger.
He also knows his stuff, is an all around decent guy as shown in the OP, and is more self aware than people give him credit for.
Idk, I also like Nickelback and Smash Mouth. Sue me.
He also knows his stuff, is an all around decent guy as shown in the OP, and is more self aware than people give him credit for.
Idk, I also like Nickelback and Smash Mouth. Sue me.
He has a burger restaurant on carnival cruise ships, when I tell you one the best burgers I've ever hadš
Ive seriously contemplated going on carnival again to have those burgers.
Ive seriously contemplated going on carnival again to have those burgers.