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Half a dozen times in ONE episode...


Brandi mentioned she was from Kentucky. WE KNOW!!! We also know your town has one restaurant and one stop light and apparently the only food they sell at your local grocery store is beef jerky, spam and Cheetos. I have known numerous "country" girls like her in the past and their naive, sheltered backwoods shtick is completely fake and put upon. Does anyone really believe this woman cannot pronounce salmon?

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Did you know there's no ocean in Kentucky?! 

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I love the "tell" here with the producers intentions for season 7.

We've gotten it beaten into our heads that she's the country bumpkin from that small town in Kentucky.

And we know that Katie, Dan and Tennoria are from the South.

But they've been avoiding the fact that both Shaun and David are also from the South.

I bet we make it all the way to the finale and we never hear that these two guys are also Southerners.

The narrative is a Southern white chick is gonna beat the two guys from Vegas. Except they really aren't.

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Ugh, I'm just watching now and her saLmon pronunciation is driving me *beep* bonkers. She's said it about 30 times at this point and I'm losing it!!!

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I don't think this is the first time they have all cooked salmon in some form. Was her pronunciation so off in other episodes?

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If they did salmon before I didn't notice her pronouncing it like that and I DEFINITELY would have lol!

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I know, they act like she's from Mars.

Dexter: I would give everything to feel nothing again.

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Do they really not sell fresh fish in Kentucky? I live in Pittsburgh, and we don't have an ocean either, lol. However, I can walk into most supermarkets and buy a large piece of salmon or cod or any kind of fish, that has been shipped while Frozen. I think Brandi is full of crap.

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Do they really not sell fresh fish in Kentucky? I live in Pittsburgh, and we don't have an ocean either, lol. However, I can walk into most supermarkets and buy a large piece of salmon or cod or any kind of fish, that has been shipped while Frozen. I think Brandi is full of crap.
"Fresh" and "frozen" don't belong in the same sentence unless you're saying, "Fresh things aren't frozen."

There is a difference in icing fish and freezing it.

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You answered your own question. You can walk into a grocery store in Pennsylvania and buy FROZEN fish

I can walk into a grocery store in Denver and buy fish that is frozen. I can also buy fish and seafood that isn't frozen but has been kept in an ice bath. It's technically not frozen, but it's also not fresh. Because it was shipped from somewhere and is being held at a temperature just above freezing.

I can also walk into a store in Colorado that keeps live fish in fish tanks. That is what is meant by fresh. You catch the fish and "harvest" it, which means killing, butchering and scaling the fish.

And for professional chefs, particularly Ramsay, they judge your skills by how well you are at breaking down a whole fish. Not the kind of fish you buy in the grocery store that's already been broken down.

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I looked up her town on a map, her town is really not far from cities and bigger towns. The town is an hour from Louisville. So I don't see how everything is so "foreign" to her

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She's playing up the forced image and back story so Ramsay will let her win on sentimentality.

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