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re: Tom Fitzmorris Food Show
Posted on 10/30/19 at 7:42 am to Enadious
Posted on 10/30/19 at 7:42 am to Enadious
Reposting here because the other thread is anchored:
I listened to his show for about 45 minutes yesterday. It's the first time in a couple of years, I think.
His demotion to HD2 has cost him a gigantic portion of his listeners, his dementia has cost him some more, and he gets almost no callers presently. The calls were what kept the show new and interesting. They've filled in with guide dog Mary Ann and guests who people care nothing about. Then there's the solar magnitude issue of his arrogance, pomposity and rudeness.
Tom has been a great resource over the years. He had pretty comprehensive knowledge of the history of the NOLA food scene. But he resisted new food trends, choosing to ignore them instead of continuing to follow the trends. For example, he refused to learn anything about the revolutionary segment of craft beers.
A couple of you guys (you know who you are) can continue your worship, but his time has passed.
I listened to his show for about 45 minutes yesterday. It's the first time in a couple of years, I think.
His demotion to HD2 has cost him a gigantic portion of his listeners, his dementia has cost him some more, and he gets almost no callers presently. The calls were what kept the show new and interesting. They've filled in with guide dog Mary Ann and guests who people care nothing about. Then there's the solar magnitude issue of his arrogance, pomposity and rudeness.
Tom has been a great resource over the years. He had pretty comprehensive knowledge of the history of the NOLA food scene. But he resisted new food trends, choosing to ignore them instead of continuing to follow the trends. For example, he refused to learn anything about the revolutionary segment of craft beers.
A couple of you guys (you know who you are) can continue your worship, but his time has passed.
This post was edited on 10/30/19 at 11:58 am
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Posted on 10/30/19 at 10:58 am to Stadium Rat
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Then there's the solar magnitude issue of his arrogance, pomposity and rudeness.
I've never forgiven him for a crap article he got published in the Washington Post in the aftermath of Katrina. IIRC, it was a Thanksgiving piece, in which he talked about not being able to get his hands on sugarcane to follow his usual recipe for smoking (something--I can't remember if it was turkey or not). He wrote that it was wholly unavailable, due to the entire crop being decimated by the hurricane. It was absolute hogwash. Sure, plenty of cane was damaged, but there was definitely a harvest underway at the time of his writing. I actually called him out on it, and his lame-arse response was "well, that's what the farmer I talked to told me." Again, clearly a fabrication, as no cane farmer would have declared a 100% harvest loss. When I read the lines, I was actually within sight of a cane field being harvested....less than 20 mi from Orleans Parish.
His hyperbole was exactly the wrong kind of post-Katrina message to share with the world. And his refusal to admit that he exaggerated and had NO legitimate, attributable source for his alleged fact compounded the offense.
So he's been in the realm of (eyeroll, whatever) for at least 15 years now. Don't get me started on the time he claimed that "All Vietnamese food is a variation of pho"....
Time for that old horse to be turned out into the pasture.
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