re: Bon Appetite is a dumpster fire, but Claire has a new Youtube channel

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She sucked and will always suck.

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Which is why I quit watching babish.

Andrew is enjoying the smell of his own farts a bit too much.

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Been watching more camping videos recently instead

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If you haven’t already, check out Matthew Posa, Nagualero, TA Outdoors, Bushcraft Tools, and Swedwoods for camping/bush crafting guys who also cook up some damn good meals out in the woods.

i did finish the interview

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The idea made them queasy, so they decided to take a chance on themselves and open a neo-diner in Greenpoint. They called it Hail Mary. They’d make the food they wanted to eat — fried chicken, koshari, burgers — the way they wanted to make it, with care. They offered triple-fried potatoes that took a full-time worker an entire 12-hour shift to prepare. They paid the dishwasher a living wage. It was wild and utterly impractical. The restaurant lasted about a year, which was pretty good considering they started off with enough money to keep them afloat for two months. Throughout, they maintained a monkish humility. “A lot of people complained, “Why is this burger $15?” she remembers. “But it’s grass-fed meat that’s ground every single day with homemade American cheese, homemade bread, homemade pickles. And that is really stupid, because no one can tell those things. We didn’t put it on the menu because we were like, ‘The food is going to speak for itself.’ And it really, really doesn’t.”

After the restaurant folded, El-Waylly made her way into food media — first at Serious Eats, where she quit after about a year (“They kind of treated me like a maid”), and then at Bon Appétit in 2019. The eventual Test Kitchen implosion was unavoidable. “Sohla’s never changed,” says Ham. “She’s not one to stay quiet and eat her words if she sees something wrong.”

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this is the crucial section

it shows that she's an absolute idiot when it comes to actually running a business, but also, that she is "not one to stay quiet and eat her words if she sees something wrong." the problem is that she's shown to be ignorant to basic concepts relating to business, which will create a scenario where she sees a lot of stuff as "wrong" (b/c she sees things in an idealist-ignorant lens)

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“The fact is Brad’s show did do very well,” she says, referring to Brad Leone, one of the first stars of the Test Kitchen, who hosts It’s Alive With Brad. “For some reason, people like watching a big dumb white guy. But why? What does that say about the audience?

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leading to this perfect example of the simpsons "out of touch" meme

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Why do you want to watch this incompetent white man when we have one in the fricking Oval Office?”

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and then she quadruples down

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and then she quadruples down

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Told you at the top of page 2 she was a pain in the arse. Insufferable.

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That’s the dude with the dog?

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He's got two of them actually, but it's usually only his Collie, Monty, that goes with him. He'll occasionally bring along his other dog Ruger.

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A disturbing number of people seem to think all businesses have rooms full of money and no overhead and just pay their employees pennies for funsies.

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i watched this HILARIOUS discussion on a commie FB page this morning with this sort of ignorance.

they were all mad b/c the meal delivery services started charging fees in areas with higher regulatory oversight and were bitching about how they're so greedy and terrible. they even had one thread where a person was like "we should juts not use them" with an uproar of people showing exactly why these services have value (explaining why THEY need it, etc.)

if you posted an article showing that these "greedy" services are losing money, they'd fricking ERUPT

probably would blame "CEO pay" or something. they're just literally ignorant and have no idea that it's expensive

i run a super lean business and it's still $2.5-3k/month in expenses off the top.

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usually only his Collie, Monty

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Yeah that’s the one. That dog is fricking goofy lmao

The BA Test Kitchen has managed to bring down another darling internet media provider. The Reply All podcast was doing a 4-part expose on the Test Kitchen, but then Gimlet employees accused two of the hosts of being anti-woke. Gimlet Media is company that produces Reply All, which is itself owned by Spotify. The two hosts have now resigned and the podcast is on hold. I guess this is a classic example of "get woke, go broke."

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Does any man still have a set of balls in this country?

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I'd say it takes balls to admit wrong and publicly apologize for it. But maybe I was raised differently. The accusations made against PJ and Sruthi by the Gimlet employee were pretty messed up.

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Bon Appetite is a dumpster fire

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I forgot to discontinue subscription and it auto renewed last month