Right, the Four Loko that is currently sold does not have caffeine anymore, so I assume this doesn’t either. Reads like it’s supposed to be a competitor to the ever-popular White Claw rather than however you would class Four Loko (I remember it was marketed, no joke, as an energy drink for a time).
RichVR
3004
Yeah. And the Four meant that it was the equivalent of four drinks.
Edit: And yeah, no caffeine. Some children will be disappointed. /s
I never liked energy drinks, so I only had it maybe twice, but I knew many people who loved/hated it (in that order over the course of an evening). I think the main problem with it was that it was flavored in such a way you could not really taste the alcohol which made it taste more like a sweet energy drink or a soda rather than booze. Plus, the sugar rush and caffeine made it more of a party drink than beer. This despite it being really high ABV for a drink that was not hard liquor. By the time you realized you were buzzed/drunk, it was too late.
RichVR
3006
I stopped combining alcohol and caffeine when I stopped drinking Irish coffee. Horrible hangovers.
nKoan
3007
uncaffeinated mountain dew? That sounds like someone has forgotten their roots.
What could be more American than apple pie hot dogs made by a TV chef as part of a promotion?
The one-of-a-kind recipe will feature an all-beef hot dog, apple pie filling, and Fieri’s signature bacon jam, enveloped in flaky pie crust, and topped with an apple mustard drizzle, apple pie spice, and demerara sugar.
That sounds like something that should be in The Onion.
RichVR
3010
Guy Fieri is a chef in the same way that Rachael Ray is a chef.
Beef and apple? Like, if you’re going to put a sausage in an apple pie, surely it should be pork. Why not a bratwurst?
nKoan
3012
“Are you feeling okay? You haven’t touched your Chevy Trucks x Guy Fieri Hot Dog Apple Pie”
Houngan
3013
Exactly! If you’re going to do stupid food things for attention, at least do them competently.
RACHAEL RAY IS NOT THAT BAD GODDAMMIT.
Stupid Guy Fieri is, though.
ShivaX
3015
Ray cooks food that is like… food.
Nothing fancy or crazy, just food from recipes mostly. She’s not Gordon Ramsey or anything, but I’ve never said “what the fuck is happening” the few times I’ve seen her cook.
Guy on the other hand… though he does good stuff on the side, so I just let him do whatever Flavortown nonsense he wants to.
Timex
3016
Rachel ray is trash. She cooks totally mediocre garbage, and had somehow built a career around incorporating stupid slang terms for ingredients and crap.
I didn’t realize this until I started looking up the clips, but apparently Last Week Tonight’s “And Now This” mentions Rachel Ray in the second week of March every year. Now I’ll look forward to March 2022 for the next Rachel Ray bit.
ShivaX
3018
I’ve only see stuff she’s done (I assume recently?) that was on PBS.
It was just like her in her kitchen cooking random stuff.
No audience or anything.
Edit:
Basically this:
RichVR
3019
Haven’t watched her in a long while. The memory that I have of her show is essentially her opening cans and jars of stuff and mixing them in a bowl.
ShivaX
3020
It’s basically cooking for regular people.
Ramsey can show me how to make beef wellington, but really, that’s never going to happen and if it does it’s going to be a disaster.
Rachel is just cooking shit I could probably make with shit I could actually buy at the store.
Not a what I would consider a “chef” though, I’d agree.
Yeah, that’s her thing: proselytizing at-home cooking through relentless enthusiasm for simple dishes.
I was given one of her cookbooks years ago, and it’s surprisingly sound. Familiar and mainstream, and not a whole lot of creativity in it, but from cover to cover it’s all actual recipes for real food. No pre-made stuff, and except for a suggestion for a steak seasoning, no brand name ingredients.
If she’s getting people to actually try their hand at cooking, she’s doing the Lord’s work, I say.
Has either of them ever called themselves chefs? I’m pretty sure Rachel Ray has emphasized that she’s a cook and not a chef. Not sure about Guy Fieri. Anyways, that concoction from Fieri doesn’t sound appetizing.
