topic Re: ITKWD in Q Talk

ITKWD

Alexa6352 — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:08:19 GMT

I'm watching him cook and I watched last week too and I am not understanding why they are not eating any of the food? It seems like an awful WASTE of food... He says for Safety Reasons..but i'm assuming that if they are in the studio,they are not sick.. Maybe i'm crazy,but I don't get it

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Love my grandkids — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:47:09 GMT

@Alexa6352 "Beating"? I think you meant "eating" but I got a chuckle! I've read on here that the food is given to the crew or donated, don't recall which.

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4leaf — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:47:31 GMT

I have wondered this at every food show. They respect the 6 ft away but never touch a bite of food. Can't understand. Hope someone knows. Saw Alberti with beautiful steak and never touched a bite. WHY?

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Alexa6352 — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:50:05 GMT

fixed it thanks

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MrSour — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:00:37 GMT

maybe the Q has got him on a diet???

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Scorpio1971 — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:38:49 GMT

@Alexa6352 wrote:
I'm watching him cook and I watched last week too and I am not understanding why they are not eating any of the food? It seems like an awful WASTE of food... He says for Safety Reasons..but i'm assuming that if they are in the studio,they are not sick.. Maybe i'm crazy,but I don't get it

@Alexa6352

I'm thinking it's because this virus is spread so easily from the tiniest particles that can be emitted from mouth when talking and nose when breathing, and that can contaminate both the food items and all other items on the set because this virus can live on various surfaces for long periods of time.

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kitcat51 — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:44:50 GMT

Viewers would lose their minds if the food was eaten...it's a dirty set countertop, he touched that with his hands, it's not safe & on & on.

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KKJ — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:46:19 GMT

I understand for safety reasons not handling/eating the food. My prob with it is the huge amounts they set out for display. They could easily get by with showing one plate/platter of the food rather than wasting trays and trays of it just for display purposes.

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loriqvc — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:13:07 GMT

The hosts have stated that the policy for now is not to eat the food on air. That does not mean the food is all just being thrown away, though I'm sure some of it will be (as always) due to prolonged exposure to the hot studio lights and other potential issues. It is very likely that there are the same people/roles keeping track of which food is still safe to preserve and share now as there always has been. And I've definitely noticed a big difference in how many packages get opened and the fact that very little of the food is touched or broken open in recent presentations, which is something they may be wise to adopt as an ongoing approach.

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shaggygirl — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:28:17 GMT

@KKJ wrote:
I understand for safety reasons not handling/eating the food. My prob with it is the huge amounts they set out for display. They could easily get by with showing one plate/platter of the food rather than wasting trays and trays of it just for display purposes.

@KKJ

I wonder that too sometimes. Like when Germack or whoever it is with those jars of nuts. They have a dozen or more already filled bowls on display right in front of them yet keep opening more jars and waiting for the camera to zoom in so they can start pouring even more bowls full.

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grandma2pkmh — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:53:45 GMT

If it helps ease anyone's mind, I was listening to one of Mary DeAngelis 5 o'clock IG talks and she mentioned that she often gets asked about all the food. She said a lot of the "food" you see on the set is not real, it's prop food. If it is real, depending on what it is, is frozen after the showing and used again next time until it is un-usuable. The vanilla ice cream could be mashed potatoes or butter. There is alot of fake food available for purchase by anyone ie: fruit and bread. But I agree with the Germack and popcorn poured every where.

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Sooner — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:58:02 GMT

@grandma2pkmh wrote:
If it helps ease anyone's mind, I was listening to one of Mary DeAngelis 5 o'clock IG talks and she mentioned that she often gets asked about all the food. She said a lot of the "food" you see on the set is not real, it's prop food. If it is real, depending on what it is, is frozen after the showing and used again next time until it is un-usuable. The vanilla ice cream could be mashed potatoes or butter. There is alot of fake food available for purchase by anyone ie: fruit and bread. But I agree with the Germack and popcorn poured every where.

@grandma2pkmh Yes! Prop food is coated, sprayed, colored, sets out, handled by a zillion people, and so on. Hardly ever safe to eat. You notice when they do eat there usually is a bite set aside for that

And when you are selling thousands and thousands of pieces, there is no "waste" from whatever amount they open on set in comparison to what they sell.

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KKJ — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:00:41 GMT

@grandma2pkmh wrote:
If it helps ease anyone's mind, I was listening to one of Mary DeAngelis 5 o'clock IG talks and she mentioned that she often gets asked about all the food. She said a lot of the "food" you see on the set is not real, it's prop food. If it is real, depending on what it is, is frozen after the showing and used again next time until it is un-usuable. The vanilla ice cream could be mashed potatoes or butter. There is alot of fake food available for purchase by anyone ie: fruit and bread. But I agree with the Germack and popcorn poured every where.

That does make me feel better. I remember during a recent Gourmet show they were presenting seafood--shrimp--and there were huge platters of it. Remember thinking then that the amount they were showing would feed quite a few people and cringed at thought of it all being thrown out.

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CalminHeart — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:13:02 GMT

Imagine how many people touched the food before the show. Given how easily the virus is passed to others, I wouldn't eat it either.

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LilMadi — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:36:56 GMT

People other than the hosts touch the food for the presentations. Additionally, they could be talking, coughing, sneezing and just breathing around the food. We don't know if they wear masks/gloves but even if they do, it's always possible that someone, sometime, somewhere was around the food who was not protected or cautious. They all talk around the food, the hosts are not wearing masks and usually not gloves either. I've seen Alberti (and others) touch the food numerous times with his bare hands, and Rick D. who, even stated the first time that he knew he shouldn't, but that he couldn't help himself. What????

What they present on camera is not necessarily factual off camera, including their behavior with regard to Covid19. I've seen the employees "accidently" do something they shouldn't with respect to the virus restrictions. At times, the camera catches things that aren't meant to be caught.

No worries about it going to waste either. It's possible they ARE eating or taking the food home. I've seen them put food on the side, even now....for later. MBRoe, Rachael and Alberti can't stop talking about how hard it is not to eat the food and how tortured they are during the shows. They even put food up to their noses and sniff it.

I will say that I don't understand why 2 hosts are needed for the food shows. One talks, the other cuts, pours the food. Why can't one person do that? And I do agree with the other posters about why they have to keep pouring/opening/ putting more and more food out when there's already enough on the table.

I wouldn't eat the food, it's certainly not worth dying over.

I like them not eating the food during the shows now. Much more pleasant to watch.

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Spurt — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:22:11 GMT

In fact loooonng ago they had a rather interesting but short lived show on the Food Network that was a contest with Food Stylists....and they did all those tricks to make food look good on TV or for magazine photos.... So if you wondered why your food didnt look as good as on TV...maybe thats why....

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betteD — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:29:48 GMT

It must be killing David to not eat all the food he is selling. He's a muncher.