Indeed, some of you are taking this way too seriously.

He's a good guy and he's a big Dolphins fan.

I liked a few years ago, when he was taking the Shula steak challenge before the Super Bowl, he had on a shirt that said, "I STILL CALL IT JOE ROBBIE".

 

My point was that they are both idiots on TV who make a mockery of food. One does so by eating himself sick on National TV and the other does so by making unedible arts and crafts projects he calls "cake" all the while having an unbearable "I think I'm hilarious but I'm really just a fat hipster *******" persona.

And for the person who asked, yes I do participate in food drives and other such charities to help hungry people.

 

FYI - Adam doesn't really eat on TV anymore. His show is now called Man v Food Nation. He rounds up locals who willingly take the challenges now.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to suggest he just went around stuffing face on TV. He went around the country to restaurants and took their existing, in-house 'challenges', as well as other restaurants who just made good food (no challenges). Are these restaurants also bad for creating these challenges?

Is it fair to assume you're not a fan of Don and David Shula because they offer a steak challenge at all their restaurants? One which Adam completed in front of them, BTW. Even promoting on their website?

 

So does that mean Miami gets Peyton now?

 

That's been in the bag for weeks man. Where have you been?

 

I've seen the show and he appears to be a good guy. I just have to seriously question how many years he is taking off his life eating all the junk he does on those shows. I certainly realize that the show is done for entertainment purposes, but as a fellow Dolphin fan, I would love to see him around for many more years to come. Anyone who watches what he eats on his show and doesn't realize the long term negative effects of eating like this should examine their own eating habits.

 

Waaaaaay too seriously.

 

No, that wouldn't be fair. I completed the 48 oz challenge myself a few years back.

Listen, I'll admit I'm probably being way to hard on this guy and the cake jack ***. I wasn't drunk last night, so I won't blame alcohol, but I was tired and cranky and let my hatred of the food network shows that my wife watches way too much of explode.

I used to like a lot of these shows back in the day. Feasting on Asphalt, even Man vs. Food. But when it devolved into crappy restaurants that never even had a food challenge before dude showed up just putting some unoriginal eat a 20lb burrito crap fest, my interest turned to hatred.

It just seems like every time she puts that channel or any other food show on Bravo or the other crap cable stations, there's some gelatinous blob having a disingenuous food orgasm in his mouth as he takes a bite of a disgusting pile of food.

David Letterman sums up my thoughts perfectly in this clip -

http://videos.nymag.com/video/David... Letterman's Preemptive Apology to Rachel Ray

 

I think my bleeding heart views are pretty well known here, so what I'm about to say may seem crazy.

I understand what you and Letterman are saying, the problem is having shows about large amounts food and solving world hunger aren't mutually exclusive. We can do both. There's no need to bash a show like Man vs Food, because there are less fortunate people out there. You can help people who need it AND enjoy yourself watching the Food Network.

I mean Letterman is a known cigar smoker. Should he not appear on the cover of Cigar Affectionado because people have lung cancer? No.

 

Let me just make one thing clear, I don't only hate those shows because of where I stand on the hunger thing. I hate them mainly because in my opinion, they're terrible shows and the schtick of these foodies is unbearable to me.

 

I'm with you on Food Network. I don't watch that crap anymore. I watched them when they used to have real shows, and real Chefs on there. Now it's just entertainment and reality shows.

The only real food shows left are on PBS Satuday mornings.

But let's be real here, he may be pigging out in real life, but we don't know that. He does what, 10, 15 shows a year? That's 10-15 days of pigging out a year. So maybe he doesn't eat well normally, maybe all he does is eat healthful foods.

But I think it's cool hes such a huge Dolphins fan, and he's from Brooklyn.

 

FTR, Richman & Rachel Ray are far from foodies. in fact, they are the anti-foodies and foodies hate them.

 

Anyone who refers to the themselves as a "foodie" is a dope. True food enthusiasts cringe at that word.

 

I disagree. I know several people in my area who are the big players in the local food movement and they do refer to each other as foodies.

 

Dopes!

 

Letterman getting sanctimonius about anything is a joke. So is conflating Man vs. food as antithetical to whirled peas, or whatever.

 

Adam seems ok to me....unlike that d-bag named Guy Fieri, with his frosted white hair, who does that Diner's show. I am sure Adam doesn't normally eat like he does on his food challenges, and he now has other people doing food challenges. I still like Tosh a lot more. He's hilarious.

 

Who the hell is Tosh?