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Smorgasbord of Iron Chef

Posted by Hemos on from the ihairman-kaga dept.

Tetsujin28 writes ""Kyoo no tema wa...kore desu!" Iron Chef fans have a treat in store this weekend: three 2-hour specials on Food Network, featuring the 2000th Plate Special (French vs. Chinese dream teams) and a Flay-Morimoto rematch."

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  1. Re:Iron Chef vs Swedish Chef? by pubudu · · Score: 5
    Iron Chef vs Swedish Chef!

    That would have been hilarious. And then we perhaps would get Iron Chef here in Scandinavia as well.

    Kaga: Kyoo no tema wa kore desu ... Chocolate Moose!

    Fukui: Chocolate Moose, an interesting choice, and one of the Challenger's favorite ingredients. The Challenger has wisely chosen Iron Chef Japanese Masuharu Morimoto, who will have a difficult time fully integrating this difficult theme ingredient into Japanese cuisine. Will he prevail? Will the Challenger unseat the Iron Chef?

    [Iron Chef Wipe]

    Kaga: Allez cuisine!

    Swedish Chef: Furst veet zee chuculete-a, und zeen veet zee muuse-a. Heer Muuse-a. Heer Muusey Muusey Muusey.

    Ota: Fukui-san.

    Fukui: Go ahead Ota.

    Ota: The Iron Chef is mixing chocolate, seaweed, soy sauce and ginger in a small bowl, but he seems to be at a loss as to what to do with the Moose.

    Kuzuko: Is the challenger just coating the moose in chocolate? [giggle] Excuse me, but that looks, well [giggle] awful. I'm sorry.

    Fukui: Actually I'm told by the Challenger that this is quite common in Nordic cuisine, and I imagine it's quite tasty.

    Kuzuko: You mean with salt that he's added.

    Fukui: Yeah, I think that's the direction he's headed ...

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  2. Re:great show by Crixus · · Score: 3
    this show is great. there's only one mystery - in the american version on the food network, at some interval some japanese person shouts "squizan!" (or something to that degree). Why isn't this translated?

    The floor reporter (Ota) is trying to get the announcer's attention, who's name is "Fukui." So what Ota is screaming is "Fukui-San," adding the "san" to be polite.

    All he is doing is calling out a person's name. :-)

    Rich...

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  3. Iron Chef sucks (aka "America, wake up!") by kalifa · · Score: 3
    Folks, I'm sorry to moderate the enthusiasm of all the fans, but Iron Chef is a dramatically stupid and mediocre show. Culinary speaking, it's nothing more than a mix of mediocrity, ignorance, and sensationalism. As Bernard Shaw, one the the best American food experts, put it when Ducasse opened his restaurant under harsch criticism in New York: "The same drop in standards that, in culinary instruction, has taken us from Julia Child and Jacques Pepin to Bobby Flay and the Iron Chefs has infected the world of food criticism as well, where a commitment to professional excellence and devotion to the enterprise have given way to sensationalism and a sometimes truculent ignorance."

    There was a time, not long ago, when New American haute cuisine was on a roll and was supposed to catch up within a few decades with French haute cuisine. Well, if the majority of Americans let themselves intoxicate with this lousy and hype-based vision of gastronomy as the one which appears in shows like Iron Chef, this dream should be over really soon now.

  4. Re:Emeril instead of Bobby by veddermatic · · Score: 3
    I don't know where you come from, but where I come from, my Foie Gras don't come seasoned... BAM!

    I think we could do without that =)

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  5. All Your Food Are Belong To Us! by docstrange · · Score: 3

    That show has the worst translation sometimes. Chef, what happen: Someone set us up the cod!!

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  6. Morimoto vs. Flay II - Is Don King involved? by tenzig_112 · · Score: 3
    During the pre-show publicity tour, Flay couldn't stop talking trash:

    Flay: "I am the greatest chef of all time."
    Morimoto: "I am confident that I will win."
    Flay: "I am pretty, and I can't be beaten."
    Morimoto: "What? What does that even mean?"

    At that point the two world-renoun chefs had to be physically separated to keep them from cooking one-another.

    In other news: McVeigh's lawyers find John Doe, II.

  7. Who cares about the meals? by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 4
    I want to know who's judging. Particularly, I want to know which impossible-to-please woman is going to be on the panel this time.

    "Yes, this seven course crab meal delicately prepared with rare seasonings from the heart of France using everything from the brains for a mousse to the claws as the cutlery is just too salty. I don't like it."

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    Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...

  8. news for nerds stuff that... by iomud · · Score: 3

    aww nevermind, who am I to turn down a good meal.

  9. I can see it now by r_j_prahad · · Score: 3
    Chairman Kaga: "Tonight's theme ingredient is... toupee'."

    Shatner: "Oops. Sorry about that, Kaga-san."

    Morimoto: "Wait! I have a recipe for toupee'...."