October 30, 2012

Guy Fieri Hate

I’ve never really understood all the hate for Guy Fieri. I enjoy Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives as much as the next guy. However, this article in the New York Observer by Joshua David Stein takes it to a whole other level. At some point this essay started feeling a bit preposterous. Maybe it is when he starts relating Fieri’s restaurant to gun control. Either way, it is written really well…
It would be disingenuous to claim that Times Square represents anything but a regurgitation of the American dream, monetized, metastasized, made blindingly bright by light-emitting diodes and shoved back down the gullets of those souls unlucky enough to have mistakenly stumbled into the red zone, or worse, like moths to the incinerating flame, have actively sought it out. To deride Mr. Fieri for opening his restaurant there as if he’d taken a dump in the Louvre is silly…
➡ The Crispy Crimes of Guy Fieri