The Friday Link for 2/7/24

Howdy all. 

I have two videos for you this week.  The first one is a little long, but it's GOLD! 

We've featured Chef Reactions a few times on the Link, and this week, he decided to watch Food Network celebrity Sandra Lee and do a running commentary on her 'cooking' videos.  I put cooking in quotes because she was not really a chef, but someone who jazzed up premade grocery store items and drank an insane amount of booze.

The great Anthony Bourdain had nothing but contempt for her as he felt she was everything bad about cooking (watch his rant where he mentions her Kwanzaa Cake). To be fair, she never did try to pass herself off as Julia Child.  Was she creative? Yeah, sure, but the show was not about being creative on a budget (like Kitchen: Impossible). She and the network presented her show as an actual cooking show, which it really wasn't.  If Gordon Ramsey is heating up pizza rolls, you would not describe that as "gourmet."

And she focused WAY too much on booze! 

Chef Reaction does a great job tackling her library. Warning! Some adult language!

Also tonight, The Daily Show tackles MAGA's war on DEI, which is really just open racism trying to disguise itself as a noble cause.  If you think the only people who are persecuted are white, straight, Christian men, then you are racist, criminally misinformed, or both. 

Be careful! COVID is on the rise again, the flu is brutal this year, and it looks like some bad things might be just around the corner.

BE healthy, be safe.