Comments on: Come Dine With Me – Awesome https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: andrew birrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-684688 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:38:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-684688 i watched one of the episode’s last night and thought the comment ” after all i’m only cooking for white people ” was a very racist comment , what would have happened if that had been another person referring to her culture or race . shocking

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By: jean https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-671049 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:54:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-671049 I think the voice over man is AWful! Why does he have to shout? I have to keep turning the volume down and then up. I enjoy the programme but surely the producer must realised the voiceover man shouts???!!! and why don’t they use the soup spoon correctly by scooping the soup into the spoon and away towards the back of the bowl. They hold their knives and forks up in the air and waive them about. Manners!!

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By: TREVOR SMITH https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-611437 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:34:25 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-611437 Thank you all who have stopped me in the street, pubs and even the gents (?) who have said that the show I was on has been the best ever and that I made the show but all the guys were great and we are still friends and keep in touch except for one!! The banter with me and Alan continues, Zoe has had a baby since and so has Steves wife Claire. I haven’t cooked a thing since….I leave that to Bev but then again she did save the day for me. I’ll fry the meatballs next time!

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By: susan howard https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-576434 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:17:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-576434 Come dine with me is very entertaining but I do wish participants would hold their knife correctly !!! Not like a drumstick as per Peter Stringfellow and numerous others !!

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By: kim pratt https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-498619 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:24:57 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-498619 ithink trevor smith is the nicest person that’s been on come dine with me. the worst has been pippa and tanya

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By: Honda - Live skydive on Channel4 « Jazamatazz https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-431666 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:48:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-431666 […] hooked on it while off work poorly so I’m chuffed it’s graduated to an evening slot. Freaky Trigger have a great desription of a typical episode – complete with excruciating social awkwardness and […]

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By: Amy https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-429799 Wed, 28 May 2008 05:20:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-429799 Dave Lamb, the narrator, makes this programme. I love his comments. Always makes me laugh. :)

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By: DJ Silver https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-415123 Sun, 04 May 2008 20:49:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-415123 I have only just started to watch this but the narrator makes the series great. His witty comments crack me up.

Mike

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By: aldo https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-408874 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:24:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-408874 I watched the French version (Un Diner Presque Parfait) daily while on holiday recently, and I think it might have pioneered the hour-long format. It has a much more complicated voting system, with separate votes for ‘la cuisine’, ‘l’ambience’ and ‘le soiree’ (although I couldn’t quite work out exactly what the distinctions were).

Standards of cooking seemed much higher, and less politics in the scoring – even when people really didn’t like each other and were outright insulting to each other during the evening they still managed to score kind of impartially.

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By: Alix https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-408275 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:37:03 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-408275 Wow, I have to remember to see if this is on replay, as, as some of you are aware, I frickin’ love CDWM.

The pigs trotter man was awesome – he was trying to make a point about it being possible to cook a great meal using bargain ingredients and unpopular cuts of meat but failed to realise that to make this work well you have to have a clue about cooking. Also he burned the rhubarb crumble.

Is the voiceover man still Dave Lamb? I like him, he’s like a cut price Chris Tarrant.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407957 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:10:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407957 i hadn’t noticed the related comment-laden version of the article!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2008/04/last_nights_tv_come_dine_with.html

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By: pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407951 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:41:54 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407951 Wallaston is almost at Alexander Walker levels of reverse quality identification (a status that Bradshaw can only dream of, whose occasional weakness for dumb comedies means he is only wrong 90% of the time). The comments on that Wallaston thread however should give him pause for thought, even people who though that edition of tweaked for prime-time CDWM was rubbish, the format wins.

“While Malcolm dishes up the Prune Fool, Sam is busy examining the Beatrix Potter nick-nacks and Monique is vomiting in the en-suite”.

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By: DJ Punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407830 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:48:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407830 I watched a bit of it with the sound down (listening to Radcliffe and Maconie as is my wont of a working week mid-evening) and even without the voiceover it made me ill (the people first, the food second)!

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By: Lena https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407809 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:49:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407809 Elizabeth David wept! I think this show would give me a stomachache…

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By: Sarah https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407801 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:24:24 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407801 But but…. Tory Boy did actually say he had “a signature dish”! The tuna and bean salad! Which was canned Netto tuna!! With beans!!

Agreed ABSOLUTELY, it was AMAZING. Sorry, I mean – phenomenonal!

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By: mike https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407797 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:17:03 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407797 I switched channels after the first couple of minutes, simply because I COULD NOT STAND the voiceover man.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407793 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:05:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407793 oh and Brian kept eating things with chopsticks. including the (winning) moroccan meal. he must have brought them with him. along with the same petrol-station bunch of flowers he brought to every meal.

The other bloke cottoned on to this and bought a huge bouquet to the last meal.

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By: DJ Punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407786 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:49:19 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407786 Last week’s “celebrity” CWDM featured the ungainly spectacle of Lynsey de Paul and MC Harvey getting it on.

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By: katie https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/comment-page-1#comment-407774 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:27:27 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407774 The best ever EVER meal ever served on CDWM was the PIG’S TROTTER! The guy (who I also seem to remember drank about a pot of tea at each meal) literally just boiled them up and served them, SPLAT, on a plate. He also used the water he’d cooked them in to form the “stock” for the soup he served as started. And he genuinely thought it was the best thing ever! AWESOME.

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