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On Anthony Bourdain (redsails.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Never meet your heroes that you learned about from a couple of quotes online and never think about until you're watching the Vietnam-Obama episode with your family and getting increasingly skeptical and nervous.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this guy is the most annoying person in the world, who writes a 10,000 word expose about a TV chef?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

One who's been dead for years, no less

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Counterpoint: he's right

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Against all odds, the son of a music industry executive and a New York Times editor managed to get his foot in the door of the media world.

lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Anthony Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America

Culinary

Institute

America

curious-sickle

glasses-off Culinary Institute of America

glasses-on cia

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah I read theory

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I learned about him a long time ago. I guess we should’ve said something when people were quoting him after Kissinger croaked lol. I sorta assumed everyone knew

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All Anglo travel hosts are sus. Their whole shtick is "look at how EXOTIC and STRANGE these backwards foreigners are!!!".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's worse people on TV, thats for sure. I usually enjoyed 'No Reservations'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I kind of give anyone famous enough for mainstream media some slack in terms of the whole "having boring approachable politics" factor tbh. Not gonna turn the world upside down, and that usually never really was the point