The Trailer Park Gourmet (Guy Fieri)

The Daily Beast ^ | November 10, 2009 | Rachel Syme

[EveningStar]

Please note that this article is nine days old. It looks like the original title may have been, "The Glenn Beck of Food."

[CaptRon]

Fieri (pronounced Fi-et-ti)

Which ALWAYS struck me as pretentious as the sunglasses on the back of the head. This guys is a sels-centered tool.

[CaptRon]

that would be “self-centered” tool, of course.

[Terpfen]

Attempting to use language-accurate pronunciation is evidence of self-centeredness? Better tell Rush to stop accurately pronouncing Mika Brzezinski’s name, he’s being self-centered!

[EveningStar]

http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2009/11/why-people-hate-guy-fieri/

[CaptRon]

He’s an American and speaks English. “T” doesn’t equal “R”. I grew up in an Italian neighborhood. It never happened.

[End Times Sentinel]

The sunglasses on the back of his head put him up with Jamie Oliver in pretentious tooldom and douchebaggery.

Neither of them can carry Giada DeLaurentiis' purse.

[Terpfen]

Trouble is, the article supplied the pronunciation.

[CaptRon]

My point exactly. And he cooks nothing any of us couldn’t.

[rwfromkansas]

Wow. Why the heck do people hate him? His show is great and really showcases old-fashioned diners.

I really don’t give a care what some stuffy New Yorker thinks whose idea of food is some tiny plate with a drizzle of some weird concoction over a tiny piece of lettuce or some crap like that.

[EveningStar]

Check out the link in post #5. :)

[mplsconservative]

Hee-hee. That site is hilarious! Thanks for posting the link.

[Scythian]

Rachael Ray ...

[evets]

Oh please! They're just jealous 'cause he gets to eat real food:
Primanti Brother's Pittsburgh strip district... weep.

[CaptRon]

Number one, I never pronounce Mika’s last or first name. Number two, how is his pronouciation “language appropriate”?

[rwfromkansas]

Who cares?

That’s not the point.

If you want a show with hard-to-make dishes, there are plenty of other people on the Food Network.

He is all about highlighting traditional American food, classics, real America....not some ritzy LA or NY restaurant.

I don’t get why that’s a bad thing!

[EveningStar]

His show is great and really showcases old-fashioned diners.

The show would be better without him. :)

[Terpfen]

Number two, how is his pronouciation “language appropriate”?

You tell me. I said "language-accurate," not "langauge appropriate."

[CaptRon]

So does Alton Brown.

[Sloth]

Which ALWAYS struck me as pretentious

Which I don't get at all. It's perfectly normal for Romance-language culture backgrounds, like Fieri's from, to pronounce an 'R' like a 'T' (or maybe a slightly softer 'D') in some situations. For example, a Spanish-speaking person saying "para ti" meaning "for you" will make it sound like pah-duh-TEE, almost like a slurred pronunciation of "pot of tea."