Originally Posted By trekkeruss I will be pleased (and shocked) if Fox can do Kitchen Nightmares as well as the BBC. As for this past episode, who was the black guy last season who also had to quit after he ended up in the hospital? Larry? Anyway, I'm glad Aaron is gone... NOT how I want to see Asians represented on TV. LOL. I still don't get why the white girls have it out for Waffle House cook Julia. So what that she doesn't know all the ingredients or fancy-pants dishes? She seems to be able to cook, and she led them to a vicotory in the reward challenge. Talk about ingrateful! I just knew trash-talking Joanna wasn't going to last on this show. Once she opened her mouth in the first episode saying how she would do anything to make the other contestants look bad, that was it.
Originally Posted By jonvn Kitchen Nightmares is great. It seems that in most of the shows, people went into the restaurant business with never having done it before.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <It seems that in most of the shows, people went into the restaurant business with never having done it before.> Well, yeah.... I started my business never having done it before... I'm pokin' yer eyes out. I know what you mean. The people on 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' seem to be caught up in the romance of 'owning my own restaurant' and have no idea of the reality of running a small business.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Looking forward to the new show - a little more purposeful than Hell's Kitchen so I won't have to feel quite so guilty. So - can anyone with a good tv tell me what was on Melissa's chin? (I use an antenna, and the only tv I could get reception on last night was an old dial - can you believe it - one with a "normal" size screen. It was driving me nuts trying to figure it out! She should be gone. She'd need a personality transplant to be able to run anything! The poor men! I just hope pasta trash girl doesn't slither through. I'd be afraid of what I was eating in her restaurant.
Originally Posted By velo we were trying to figure that out too, lol! My kids said it was a soul-patch, lol. To me, it looked like a lot of make-up trying to cover up something.
Originally Posted By nevadarebel We were wondering the same thing and after reviewing it, it looks like she had a bad spot of acne and they used makeup to cover up the mess.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Wow, I sure don't want to use her brand! By the way, trekkerus, !#@%$&? (just kidding, of course). Good joke, glad you're a fan and not someone who thinks I'm an idiot for liking this show, which I have no doubt many people do. Of course, everyone who has watched it with me actually finds it very entertaining too even though they never in a million years thought they would (and probably would not admit it to anyone else)! (DH is even a fan now.) You mighta had me going if I'd seen your answer right away! lol
Originally Posted By trekkeruss *YAWN* Well, that was predicable. I probably should like Rock more since he lives here in my area (well, not any longer!), but his dishes looked pretty boring compared to Bonnie's. But no way was she going to get the nod. She's young and single, while Rock had everything riding on this, and of course had a family with young children. How could Ramsay vote otherwise? He couldn't. Plus I am sure the Green Valley Ranch has some say in it, and I don't think they would want to risk having a chef with zero professional kitchen experience.
Originally Posted By DAR Yeah it was pretty predictable, yes? I am looking forward to Kitchen Nightmares in the fall, yes? I like the current incarnation on BBC America, yes?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss As I mentioned earlier, Kitchen Nightmares is great, and I hope the Americanized version isn't too, well, Americanized. The preview they showed last night was fairly promising.
Originally Posted By velo although Ramsey seems to be yelling a lot in the American version. I don't recall him screaming in the British version; altho I may not have seen an episode where he did....
Originally Posted By fundog58 I lost interest in HK when the Waffle House employee was eliminated. I truly think she had the most potential of anyone there. I didn't even remember to watch the finale but it sounds like I didn't miss much. As for Kitchen Nightmares, I've caught some of the BBC shows and the dynamic is different from HK because these restaurant owners can be incredibly bullheaded, even as they are driving their businesses into the ground. Should be interesting to see how the American version plays out.
Originally Posted By DAR <<I lost interest in HK when the Waffle House employee was eliminated. I truly think she had the most potential of anyone there. I didn't even remember to watch the finale but it sounds like I didn't miss much.>> And she was a complete jerk in the finale.
Originally Posted By hightp If things work out, Julia, the Waffle House cook will be the winner next season. Ramsey promised to send her to culinary school, and wanted her to come back and compete again. Since the last winners have been a white man, white woman and a black man, she would be perfect to fit the pattern.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<she was a complete jerk in the finale.>> That's what I thought too.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms I was impressed with Rock in the beginning, but in all his little comments throughout the series, he acted like a real jerk, so I really didn't like him (but I didn't like Bonnie either). The only reason I'm glad he won is for his family - I'd move to LV for a quarter million a year salary! I think Julia can be forgiven for her behavior remembering how Bonnie treated her and talked about her throughout the show. When is came to Julia, Bonnie had a very superior (and undeservedly so in my opinion) and nasty manner, treated her like a worthless underling. I even think Julia may not have answered her because she had trained herself to tune out her shrill b****y voice so she could work. I'd hire Julia in a minute. As far as the resort preferring Rock, I laughed in the episode where the people from the resort voted Bonnie's dish over Rock's - Gordon had reminded the 2 men, when their vote was split, that they would be spending a lot of time with the winner and I said to my DH I bet they'd choose Bonnie - I mean, she was cute and flirty - and they did!
