[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.

[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.

[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.

[evets]

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

[SeaHawkFan]

I like Guy. He’s a lot more personable than the guy on “Man v. Food.”

[paulycy]

Gourmet food is easy.

[FrdmLvr]

I love his Diners, Drive-ins and Dives show. I didn’t like him in the Food Network Star Search contest, but I LOVE that show. That food looks so good. I eat vicariously through that show.

[the long march]

I love Guy. His Diners,Drive-ins, and Dives is one of the best food shows around. He finds great food in the most unlikely spots.

I think some foodies are snobs and think that everything is ‘fine dining’. I save up to go to a great table cloth restaurant but sometimes all I want is some food that’s well prepared, not too expensive, and local

[pgkdan]

At a recent panel at the New York Wine& Food Festival, star chefs David Chang and Anthony Bourdain sat down to “call bullsh*t” on several aspects of the food world, and singled out Fieri as the enemy. Chang noted Fieri's “douche glasses,” and “stupid f***ing armband,” and he asked Bourdain to “catch me and kick me in the ass” if he ever took on the look. Bourdain gave similarly derisive comments to the press about Fieri, telling TV Guide, “Did you ever see the Simpsons episode where it's decided that Itchy and Scratchy need a sidekick? So a committee gets together and they invent one called Poochie... Guy Fieri kind of looks like he's been designed by committee

Man, these two have got to be the most small minded, bitchiest and jealous men in the world. They sound like a couple of High School "Mean Girl" cheerleaders sizing up their prettier and more talented competition.

[Just another Joe]

The rest of them can go pound sand.

Guy won a chef show, fair and square, to get HIS show, which the original was, "The Big Bite".
He also has several restaurants that cater to the normal person, NOT the food critics.

I can honestly say that I like watching him, which is more than I can say about a lot of the others.

[spectre]

For years I have been entertained by Jolene Sugarbaker..The Trailer Park Queen.

For those who don't know, SHE is a HE...:)

sw

[knews_hound]

My nephew and Guys’ kids are both on the same baseball team.

He is in person a very normal, thoughtful and enthusiastic person and as good a dad as you are likely to find.

I find the criticism of him by the likes of Bourdain to be petty and class based. Guy is from middle class stock and remembers his roots and has avoided for the most part, the navel gazing approach to food taken by the likes of Bourdain et al. He lives in Santa Rosa Calif, not New York or LA. He spotlights the kind of food I want to eat, in the places I would never know about.

He had a piece on DD&D about a place in my hometown I had never heard of. We went and were stuned to learn of such an amazing restaurant in my own town that I didn’t even know existed!

Bourdains “food show” on the Travel Channel (?!) jumped the shark for me when his show on New Orleans turned into an hour long Bush bashing session over Katrina.

Screw the lefty foodies with their self absorbed TV shows and by all means spare me their sermonizing, I will take 10 episodes of Diners Drive In’s and Dives over any day.

Cheers,

*burp*

knewshound