Comments on: Come Dine With Me – Awesome http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:03:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: kim pratt http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-498619 kim pratt Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:24:57 +0000 http://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 ithink trevor smith is the nicest person that’s been on come dine with me. the worst has been pippa and tanya

]]> By: Honda - Live skydive on Channel4 « Jazamatazz http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-431666 Honda - Live skydive on Channel4 « Jazamatazz Fri, 30 May 2008 12:48:55 +0000 http://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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

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

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

Mike

]]> By: aldo http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-408874 aldo Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:24:38 +0000 http://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. 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.

]]> By: Alix http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-408275 Alix Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:37:03 +0000 http://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. 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.

]]> By: Alan http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407957 Alan Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:10:27 +0000 http://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 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

]]> By: pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407951 pete Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:41:54 +0000 http://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". 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”.

]]> By: DJ Punctum http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407830 DJ Punctum Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:48:16 +0000 http://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)! 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)!

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

]]> By: Sarah http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407801 Sarah Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:24:24 +0000 http://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! 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!

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

]]> By: Alan http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407793 Alan Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:05:47 +0000 http://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. 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.

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

]]> By: katie http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/see/tv/2008/04/come-dine-with-me-%e2%80%93%c2%a0awesome/#comment-407774 katie Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:27:27 +0000 http://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. 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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