https://twitter.com/altonbrown

  • HarryLime [any]
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    4 years ago

    I love Alton Brown. I bet his politics are super lib or whatever but who cares, he rules. His episode of Hot Ones where he calmly eats every sauce with no reaction to the heat and ranks them is fantastic.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Iirc he said some racist shit about Obama, and then scrubbed it by doing a healthy food collab with Michelle.

        • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          https://cleanplatter.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/the-taste-of-disillusionment/

          • HarryLime [any]
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            4 years ago

            But he held up one of the books and said, “So, okay – this book’s from the South, where I’m from, and it’s got a few things in it that might be kind of foreign and exotic to you Iowans.” He turned the page. “Look! A real live Negro!”

            Silence.

            He muttered, “Okay. Remind me not to make African-American jokes in Iowa.”*

            😬