{"id":208,"date":"2007-09-27T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/09\/27\/television-nightmares\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T04:14:30","slug":"television-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/09\/27\/television-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Television Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you want to lose weight?\u00a0 Then I recommend that you watch Gordon Ramsay’s new Fox show Kitchen Nightmares<\/em><\/a> during dinner.\u00a0 As the good Gordon might (and often does) say, “Oh my God!”<\/p>\n

Now my husband Mark and I are fans of Ramsay’s other show Hell’s Kitchen<\/em><\/a>. But other than the presence of Ramsay himself, everything that makes Hell’s Kitchen<\/em> so much fun — the\u00a0 competition among chefs whom you get to know and root for throughout the season — is missing from Kitchen Nightmares<\/em>.\u00a0 What’s left (at least in episode 1) is numerous nausea-inducing scenes featuring rancid food and roughly gazillion roaches and flies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, by the end of the show Ramsay and his team of miracle workers turn the dive-of-the-week into a restaurant you wouldn’t be afraid to dine in.<\/p>\n

What I can’t figure out is what the Manhattan restaurant featured in week 1 (Indian\u00a0restaurant Dillons, reborn as Purnima)\u00a0was doing in business before the makeover.\u00a0 Doesn’t New York City have restaurant inspectors?\u00a0 I sure hope so, because that’s where I live.<\/p>\n

And now it’s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n

Restaurant Nightmare
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

I must flee this buffet. Please, let’s go.
\nA mouse just ran by and … oh no!
\nI spotted a roach
\nAs it tried to encroach
\nOn my sole. What’s that thing on your toe?<\/p>\n

(You can find more of my food humor here<\/a> and\u00a0more of my media humor here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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