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Guy Fieri is an awesome dude
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Everyone always talks about Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives but no one ever talks about Guy's Grocery Games. Now that right there is a good show.
That was good stuff there. Nice message at the end too about teaching kids how to cook. So important.
I remember people shitting on him in the old place when he turned up after a hurricane zone with a giant grill and started cooking and feeding people for free. Apparently the fact he was using the one from his show which had his face on it and he didn't rush out to buy an anonymous gigantic grill rubbed people the wrong way and people in the thread were accusing him of trying to profit from the tragedy.
Plus the guy kicks Chicago Deep Dish to the curb without a care in the world. Guy Fieri always on my team š„
I'd think he was a decent, goofy dude if all he ever did was give a bunch of mom and pop restaurants a ton of a great free advertising on a show for a bunch of years.
It sounds one-sided because it's second hand and anecdotal, and in the grand scheme of things doesn't matter. I didn't dig deeper to follow up with Fieri's rep who I'm sure would've corroborated an account of their client acting shitty lol I've no reason to doubt the person who claimed to get into the scuffle, nor the person who was working at TJ's when it supposedly went down. Nobody sued anybody or anything. It's just one story and was the first time of me becoming aware of Guy Fieri's existence.
As fun as it is to goof on him for his style, I've never thought of him as anything but a genuine guy and a class act. Nothing but respect for MY mayor of Flavortown.
Alright, never mind, fuck 'em.
I feel this is very similar to what Jamie Oliver went through in the UK (and perhaps abroad, I never paid much attention to how he was perceived there). After hsi initial success there was a massive backlash against him. But then he started doing things like trying to improve kids food in schools and whatnot and things changed back again.
People still like to find things to get angry at him about though.
People still like to find things to get angry at him about though.
I was streaming Cosmos a few weeks ago and it zoomed in on NDT's head lighting up in a rainbow.
It immediately cut to a loud as fuck Food Network commercial break where Guy Fiery was screaming into the camera.
My hate is justified.
It immediately cut to a loud as fuck Food Network commercial break where Guy Fiery was screaming into the camera.
My hate is justified.
His appearance isn't even his creation, it's something Food Network cooked up to market him. He's cool.
seems like a decent guy but i saw him at a grocery store once and he tried to walk out with chocolate and then made the cashier ring through like fifteen milky ways individually. rude.
I never got the hate, I even had one of our local DJs recently trash him and I'm like, he's not bad? I remember when the Cali fires happened, he went there with his smoker and gave the firefighters free food.
Plus, he gave one of my favorite taco joints a big push to the point they are moving to a new building.
Also, the hot ones interview is great, crazy all the Food Network people breeze by it like nothing.
Plus, he gave one of my favorite taco joints a big push to the point they are moving to a new building.
Also, the hot ones interview is great, crazy all the Food Network people breeze by it like nothing.
His DDD show literally propelled many businesses. He also gave a shoutout to one of my favorite burger joints in CT.
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saw a comment on this that pointed out how nearly everyone on Hot Ones uses that final moment to plug their show or book or product or whatever, while Guy Fieri instead used that moment to tell people to teach their kids to cook instead.
Guy's Grocery Games is a legit fun, great show. Both of his big Food Network shows are good honestly. And I actually really liked his cooking show, Guy's Big Bite, which noone ever talks about. ;_;
That said, I am still pissed that Grocery Games was the reason Food Network shit-canned Cutthroat Kitchen. Wtf Food Network! Both of those shows have a right to exist dammit!
Carl Ruiz was another dude who seemed just like a genuine, good guy. It's a legitimate tragedy that he died, and is one of those "celebrity" deaths that I genuinely felt bad about.
Eh, he had his bleach blonde spiky hair even on Next Food Network Star. So unless they told him to do that on that show, I don't think this is really the case.
I think his over-the-top, flamboyant/exuberant personality and style is just how he really is. Granted, he has gotten more enthusiastic over time just by contrasting early and modern DDD episodes, which I think is just a natural part of doing what he does for a living.
I find him so annoying and want to hate him, but he's legitimately a great guy so I'm very conflicted.
I just don't like his personality on his shows. Thanks for being a good person Guy.
I just don't like his personality on his shows. Thanks for being a good person Guy.
Was always skeptical of the dude. I just have a hard time believing anyone that was from a fraternity and besties with the kinds of people he's besties with (Jimmy John's guy and Kid Rock come to mind) doesn't suck somehow. He's done some good stuff so I'll give him that but yeah, I've always been super skeptical as he's always felt the opposite of genuine to me.
Same and he's the perfect personality for that show. I've never had a issue with him. He's kind of a harmless cartoon character who doesn't take food and cooking too seriously. I find him refreshing if anything.
