The Taste: The Earl of Sammich

The Taste

By eyediosmio | Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 9:44 am | 6 Comments
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Hola Gasmii and welcome to the fun filled recap of The Taste!

Before we get started, I’d like to give a shout out to Jennaboa for identifying the “Pink Nightmare” reference!  Thanks girlie!  Also, feel free to catch up on last week’s recap here if you haven’t already done so.  So let’s do this thing!

Truth be told, this show is kind of mild, there’s no screaming or yelling and even our “villains” are not horrible people.  Annoying to work with maybe, but not the Machiavellan douches we’re used to seeing on Top Chef or Survivor or anything.  However, I am enjoying it because I do like the way the food is judged with a blind taste test.  The outcomes are often surprising, for the judges and the competitors.  I stand by my previous comments that the eliminations are missing a “do or die” element.  They need to have a “Cook for YOUR LIFE” segment, and THAT should determine who goes at the end.  Right?  Oh well, in the meantime we have this to deal with – and FEISTY LUDO!  Seriously, he is off the chain with the jibberish this episode. I keep having to rewind.

Okay, so we begin with two more contestants gone, and now Nigella is down to two contestants (Huda & Lauren), Malarkey has three (Jeff, Khristianne and Pony), Ludo has three (Sarah, Humble Gregg and Ginger Paul) and Tony remains intact (that sounds filthy to me) with his four ladies (Mia, Diane, Uno and Ninamarie).  At the beginning of this episode I told my husband that Tony loses a lady and so does Nigella.  Hmmmmm, was I right?  Let’s see!

Welcome contestants!  Today, Tony will drink too much, Malarkey will wear a stupid bowtie that is WAY TOO BIG, Nigella will sing a lullaby, and Ludo will PUNCH YOU IN ZEE FACE! 

So this week’s Team Challenge is THE SANDWICH!  Joey Tribiani and I are very excited about this challenge.  It’s the same dealio, with each contestant making a sandwich, the team choosing one from their team to represent them and the winner gets immunity.

Our guest judges, no idea who they are.   

You must choose to make a club sandwich, PB&J, or a salad sandwich. 

Malarkey must be on some crazy pills today, because he is NOT STOPPING dancing around. It must be the shorty pants.

And someone please tell me what is UP with his shorty pants?  He looks like a character from an Archie Comic.  I am tempted to just call him Jughead from how on. 

He starts bopping around from cook to cook, then starts screaming at Gregg that he’s coming for him.  Dude, that playdo face frightens  me!

Hey kids, wanna go for a ride in my Jalopy? 

Jeff is really confident in his team’s ability to win, he’s pleased with Khristianne’s dish and Ponytail’s dish and thinks that they have what it takes.  Interesting, no snarky comments, Tattoo? Come on!  How about you talk shit about Ponytail?  No? 

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eyediosmio

I'm a part time writer, full time wife and Doberman wrangler in steamy South Florida.  I try to keep my sanity by watching loads of reality tv so I can feel better about myself.  It's a lazy way to maintain my moral compass, but I'm too lazy to drive to church every Sunday. 

6 Comments

  1. 1
    LAC LAC
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 11:42 am

    Danke for the recap! And for the quick education on the cuban sandwich. I have eaten and loved them (especially one made in Miami’s cuban section) but I called them cubanos. Doh!!

    While we may get the name of a sandwich wrong, people of all stripes should agree that Malarkey needs a good slapping. From the opening sequence on, that permafrost hamster on crack is at it. There is no live studio audience – why is he jumping up and down like he is on “The Price is Right”? I know that there is a good chef under all the botox and borrowed clothes from “It’s a Brad, Brad World”, but I wish he would not feel the need to fill up the hour with his braying.

    I don’t have any real hate with the contestants. I am a little sick of the bitchy Diane show. Yeah, people go through rough times, but not everyone feels the need to spit poison like a puffadder whenever the opportunity arises.

    Didn’t Ginger Gregg come into this competion will some swagger? Now, if Ludo tapped him on his shoulder, I think he would faint dead away.

  2. 2
    wcsdancer
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    I’m always complaining about these women with long hair not pulling their hair back when they cook! Aren’t there health codes? Even the demo guys with facial hair at Costco have to wear little beard hairnets!

    Right there with you, eyediosmio, on Malarkey’s pants. WTF? I personally don’t really even care for that look on a woman, but on a man?

    Has anyone watched Restaurant Stakeout? The restaurant expert, Willie Degel, is SO over the top!

  3. 3
    Miss Molly
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 3:44 pm

    I didn’t think there was anyone as vainglorious as Ludo but …. Drusinsky.

  4. 4
    Erik
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    I just learned that Sarah and Gregg are actually dating – gross! Ditzy and Arrogant together unified in one horrible twist of fate.

  5. 5
    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks for the excellent recaps. Now, I have to go catch up, since I do prefer zipping through the ads. I must say that Malarkey has an apt surname. I think I’ll make a sammich first.

  6. 6
    eyediosmio eyediosmio
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:37 am

    Thanks for the comments everyone!

    @LAC: Diane seems to be realizing (in real time, mind you) that she comes off really hateful on the show. If you follow her tweets, she seems somewhat regretful of the way she acted on the show.

    @Erik: Those two are dating?!! Makes so much sense! You know if this was Top Chef, we’d have to suffer thru 20 minutes of behind the scenes flirting – barf! For now, I’ll watch Gregg eagerly trying to help Sarah differently. Honestly, those two are the perfect couple, he’s kind of a jock, and she’s the pretty blond. Damnit, that’s funny

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