Food Network Humor is a blog dedicated to mocking Food Network. They've had lots of strange little run-ins with Food Network, including when they were alerted to the fact that Scripps (owner of FN) registered Cooking Channel Humor in a preemptive strike. Well, about a year ago, the blogger emailed FN's PR person Lisa Krueger to request an email interview with the contestants of Next Food Network Star. Lisa declined with what Jillian felt was a snarky email, and that's why she posted the entire exchange. Now Lisa is leaving to work at Men's Health, and so Jillian reposted the emails for a laugh. So far, this is pretty standard for FNH, but then the comments start to get really weird.

It starts in the 3rd comment with some gentle scolding for being petty. Jillian counters with it's my blog. Boomie thinks Jillian is a crybaby and Hottody adds Jillian is childish, not funny, and oh yeah nobody likes her anyway. Leah Borgoin is excited they're getting such a rise out of Jillian and seems to admit to trolling.

There's the unfortunate implication that Guy Fieri goes commando

The comments continue in this vein for a bit longer, and then we get to Jenna agreeing that Lisa Krueger is a cunt, which sparks its own little dash of wank (which borders on unfunny, I know).

Jillian is accused repeatedly of "censoring" and "deleting" comments, though there's no evidence that she's done anything like that.

The regulars at the blog tell the trolls to stop trolling. Leah Borgoin indignantly declares she's not a troll.

We’re not fucking trolls. I visit this site because I don’t like the blogger and I want her to know that.

I’ll stop visiting as soon as she requires registration to leave comments.

Boomie returns to creepily tell Jillian that she's fucking creepy.

Toolshed scolds the people who called Krueger ugly while perhaps presenting a valid point. From there, the critical comments continue, but people stop responding to them, so the outrage dries up. What is it about Lisa Krueger that sparks such fierce devotion? Was it Lisa Krueger herself? Her buddies? An intern at the Food Network? Just some random troll taking advantage of an opportunity for recreational outrage?

[Jerri Blank]I guess we'll never know. [/Jerri Blank]

As a garnish for this wank, I offer Sandra Lee's outraged fans on Facebook. This was a little wank that began over how many nights there are in a week. Sandra thinks there are five. Jillian corrected her. Her fans were not amused.

Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

And another dressing room wank.

Some people feel uncomfortable at the dressing room for the Tales of videogames series, talesofdressing and wonder about making their own sandbox.

And then some players of talesofdressing get offended about the implication of people getting limits.

Highlights?

The 'n' word isn't racist! It's just a word!

Would you get offended if someone said motherfucker?

This one has been brewing a little while (well, a little over ten days) and I finally realised no one else was going to post it.

XKCD is a popular webcomic. One day, this webcomic is posted discussing the relative merits of fruit and the title "fuck grapefruit."

Needless to say, fans of grapefruit are insulted. Not only that, but banana fans want to know why their fruit was unfavourably rated in the "ease of eating" department. Some of them must be tongue-in-cheek, but it's difficult to pick them out of the genuine morass of hurt, confusion and anger. Well, mainly anger.

The blog post.

As you may know, Pixar has released a new movie called Ratatouille. At first glance, it seems like a cute movie about a rat with a talent for cooking who overcomes all obstacles and prejudice to become a great chef.
Superfrenchie blogger Flocon knows better:

( It's not true that all the French write tl;dr. )

A lot of going back and forth in the comments about the symbolism of various animals, who exactly in the movie can cook, if it's offensive to portray Paris as a romantic city, and whether or not that joke was offensive (and what it really meant).
Oh, and have I mentioned that the OP safely lives in Paris, where the most French-bashing he's exposed to is the occasional polite request for directions to the Eiffel Tower?

So over on LJ's food_porn comm, the home of delicious foodz that are tasty and photos that are porn-like, leatherwish posts asking for some advice on microwave and other small appliance cooking, as he's new to the apartment he's staying in and wants to cook without using the oven.

He mentions that his roommate has a George Foreman grill, and he'd like to try using it, but he's not sure what to cook, and also that he likes 'toasted cheese sammiches'. (emphasis mine)

Whereupon coflower promptly flips her shit. Because apparently the term 'sammiches' belongs to Rachael Ray, small children, disgusting people, and uneducated adults.

Other posters feel that perhaps she is overreacting just a tad, fallingangels breaks out the Giant Text o'Doom, and the mod finally steps in when fallingangels calls coflower a 'cunt sammich'.

A small but tasty wank for those who like sammiches & sandwiches alike.

[mods, if you feel this belongs on OTF_wank, I'll gladly move it - but I thought the mention of Rachael Ray made it kinda fandom related.]

ETA: Apparently she is upset enough to rant about it in her own LJ. She is also somewhat of a serial wanker.

(also, holy crap my inbox is filling up. :D so glad others are equally amused!)

ETA with some EVOO: In a brilliant stroke of... something, coflower thanks someone else in the thread for making their point without being an ass,, and says she would like to slap fallingangels, presumably for disagreeing with her. -_-

ETA with a nice Merlot: This whole thing has inspired a new LJ comm, food_bukkake. And the whole sorry mess has made an appearance on stupid_free.

ETA and sorbet for a refreshing palate cleanser: Sounds like someone may be taking out their agression on the food_pornsters. Recent posts have had every single tag (of the fre hundred available) added to their post.