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Ugh! Obnoxious!

posted 16 years ago by JessaCita
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I was really excited to see that Food Network was adding some diversity to their programming with this show... While there are several shows I already enjoy, let's face it: It all comes from rich white people. (And I am white myself; but it gets old seeing the same type of hosts over & over... Life isn't all white, so why should our TV programming be??)

Anyway, I can't stand this show!! I have watched it several times trying to like the hosts & give it a chance, but that wife is too obnoxious for words. She is always talking SO loudly, and her recipes are ridiculously stupid... I just watched her make a Lemonaid Pie: She added Cool Whip, sweetened condensed milk, and frozen canned lemonaid mix together, then put it in a graham cracker crust. I'm sorry, but anyone could come up with that. How the hell do people like this get a show?!

I might be alone on this...

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[–] JessaCita 16 years ago

"It's better than Sandra Lee."

I will definitely agree with you there!

[–] itsafunny_thing 15 years ago

I cannot believe no one's called this out yet.

"Blacks are a very saucy people. We are not quiet."

Oh, I didn't realize black people all act as one group. I'm extremely shy and quiet. I don't act at all like Gina and her personality turns me off because she is TOO LOUD. Does this mean I'm not a real black person?

[–] crachelm 16 years ago

My mom doesn't like the show, only because of the wife. She says the husband is so henpecked and the wife is so rediculous, they're going to turn her off watching it anymore.

"She plays like a Stradivarius, man," said Mr. Dobkin of Rachel McAdams.
R.I.P. Heath Ledger

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[–] KennethMcBrayer 16 years ago

Excellent points there quichee77.

My wife and I could only take a few episodes and as much as I would love to see this show succeed, we just cannot watch it. Gina is way too loud and the food is 98% unhealthy.

My wife really loves preparing dishes from several if not all of the Food Network shows. She loves cooking gormet meals and I am a happy and lucky man because of it but after she kept watching this show (I couldn't take it anymore) episode after episode and checked out the recipes online, she couldn't bring herself to even think about cooking them. The only thing she saw that was healthy out of all of the episodes was the game hen.

I think someone said that black people are loud. I absolutely disagree and I also don't think that race has anything to do with her loudness.

A lot is overdone and with the rising rates of heart attacks, stroke, cancer and diabetes, it is tragic and unfortunate that a show such as this which contributes to these problems is even aired.

[–] mizzhollywood 16 years ago

They're too phony.

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[–] mizzhollywood 16 years ago

They try too hard.

[–] mmclean2346 16 years ago

i like the show but i agree with some of what is said. In my opinion,i kinda wish the show was like ina or giada in that they have a purpose in why they're doing things like get togethers or special occasions, and they don't waste time telling every single ingredient they are putting in the stuff they make; or even if they do, edit it up a little bit so they can make more things. I hate some shows where you wait halfway through the show and they only finish one thing

[–] shosh04 16 years ago

I agree the show is obnoxious and I thought at any moment they were going to start doing it on the floor. Gina does not let Pat get in a word and the recipes are somewhat simple.

[–] mizzhollywood 16 years ago

I'd like to know how many different barbecue recipes you can make? It seems like there would be a limit.

[–] pynkpanther 16 years ago

i was looking for this board about 2 weeks ago and it didn't exist! yay!

it would be cool if the network balanced it out with a smooth representation of how black folk REALLY eat, because we ALL know that all of us don't eat like that (i did bite the lasagna recipe and make it the next morning, lol!)

these are the times i surely miss ms. vertemae grovesnor [sic]. talk about "class". the gentleman i watched the program with couldn't stop chuckling and i failed to ask him if it was due to embarrassment, a bit of testifi-cation or if he found it plain silly.

the "backing that thing up" in the kitchen and all, i can do without. pat, though...he is FINE!

[–] shosh04 16 years ago

Pat is fine, but Gina is so loud, I swear that man is pw'd bad. He is trying to talk and she is doing a Tina Turner impression that isn't even good, but she thinks she is great.

[–] pynkpanther 16 years ago

well, there is another show coming on hosted by a sister called "cooking for real" or something to that effect.
looks like the network is branching out!

[–] mizzhollywood 16 years ago

I hate how they act so sexual and silly on camera.

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[–] pynkpanther 16 years ago

she's decent. i'm of the lady persuasion and can't appease you with a "good looking" or not rating, lol!
i saw the preview just last week.
i think her last name is anderson or something.

[–] JessaCita 16 years ago

I think her name is Sunny Anderson, and she's some sort of DJ. THAT show actually looks good. She seems to have a bright, fun personality, but not so LOUD & in-your-face like this lady Nealy.

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[–] stanton283 16 years ago

"Is the girl good looking? Is she dark?"

Dear Lord, please help some of us black folks, Lord!! Please Lord!!!!! Please!!!!

Stan

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[–] pynkpanther 16 years ago

it may be their right, but it doesn't mean it's right...right?
it's awfully ridiculous, if you ask me.

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[–] Miss_Kitae 16 years ago

Amen. It looks really forced, like they were given some X before the show and read from cue-cards.

[–] JessaCita 16 years ago

I do have to say that Pat (or Patrick?; the husband) seems really nice. Obviously they're married for a reason (meaning he must love her), but I almost feel sorry for him for having to put up with her. As others here have said, he can barely get a word in edgewise! Yuck!

[–] reddishbrownhair 16 years ago

I must be watching a different show. While Gina is louder than say Ina and I don't see her as being obnoxious. And Pat talks all the time...in fact they take turns cooking and sometimes she is not even in the kitchen. And as far as them being to lovey dovey, it is true that they are trying to be an example. I read this in Jet magazine.

I mean let's face it, how many examples of black love, real or fictional, do we see on tv? Not very many at all. I love that aspect. I mean it can't hurt for young kids and especially young black kids who don't have married parents to see a couple/family like that. I really can't be too mad about it. The media is powerful and images that are positive, even if to some they seem forced, can perhaps counteract some of the baby mama mess that we have been bombarded with for 20 years. Here's hoping at least. I mean can we not be so critical of everything and enjoy something positive b/c it is so rare for us to see ourselves portrayed positively in the media.

I for one enjoy the show and am glad that FTV is branching out. Hopefully it will last for a while.

p.s. Very few shows on Food Network are healthy so I'm not really sure why this show is being singled out for that reason. I haven't seen anything that was out of the ordinary in terms of the food being fattening. If someone could explain this, I would appreciate it.

[–] pynkpanther 16 years ago

we don't have to like it because it's black.
we can appreciate it and not like it at the same time.
it's fine to set an example, but all we are saying is to be a little classy about it.
and, to be totally honest, how she acts is not how i nor my peers act with our husbands, so the example is set regarding whom exactly?

[–] nikkiten1979 16 years ago

ugh... this is one show I'm not going to keep watching. i tried. i gave it a try - NOT cuz it has black people - but cuz it was a new show. I'm mixed (black/white) and i love all types of food. I'm not a big fan of southern cooking, but I'll watch it to get tips for something. i LOVE cooking & i love entertaining friends and family with fun food...

here what i don't like about the show.
the wife. loud & obnoxious... i loath her "mm Hmmm" - i hate Rachel Ray's Yummo & Mmmm Hmmm too & i hate Paula Deen's overt sexuality. TOO MUCH!!

i LIKE the husband. he's cute, adorable, charming, charismatic, and NOT loud - is his cooking good? i dunno. but I'm assume that it might be?

i don't care that the woman is ugly with a funny body (in my opinion). I'm just not a fan of her personality & it seems like it's a pattern with Foodnetwork lately. are they that crazy about the ratings? it seems like there is this (false)perception that people want to see super-animated, loud, in-your-face types of personalities. this is all turning into something that looks like 30 minutes to an hour long Food Advertisement channel...

think for yourself first - for others last

[–] uniqueandpetite 15 years ago

I wanna smack the wife every time she opens her mouth.

[–] JessaCita 15 years ago

I just wanted to add that since my original post, I have come to really like Pat - but Gina still bugs me. I don't ever even watch this show, but if I happen to catch their Road Trip show ("Road Tasted"?), I enjoy Pat. He seems sweet & is so soft-spoken. Opposites attract, I guess!

[–] asiaticblackman 15 years ago

Please. Give me a break. If these people had been white you wouldn't have anything to say.

As an African American I'm proud and happy to see people cooking on national tv that exactly look like me.

Get over yourself.

[–] JessaCita 15 years ago

Yeah, right. I said that I like Pat, and I was happy to see more diversity on the Food Network because almost every other host is white. Gina is obnoxious, and I would still think the same if she were white (or Asian, or anything else). I can't stand Sandra Lee, and she's white, soooo...

If I didn't like black people, I wouldn't have watched this show in the first place. How ridiculous.

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[–] Ode-to-a-Loner 13 years ago

I don't watch Food Network very much, but when I do watch it, I usually end up catching this show, so I end up watching an episode. I have to disagree with the majority of posters here who think that Gina is loud and obnoxious. I am introverted and more on the quiet side a lot of times, and I really don't like being around people with loud and overbearing personalities. From what I have seen, I don't think that Gina has that type of personality. I actually like Pat and Gina's personality. I also think that Pat does get opportunities to speak. They joke back and forth and take turns explaining how a dish is being prepared, so I don't see how Gina is dominant when it comes to talking.
And I like the fact that they are affectionate. I don't see any of their behavior as annoying, phoney, or obnoxious. I actually think the show is refreshing.

"Stop grinning like a psycho, and get back to work." Doakes, on Dexter

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