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Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Styleovertrend — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:33:11 GMT

I know this has been covered before but zooming in to see Shawn putting cake in her mouth along with her fingers doesn’t make me want to eat what she’s eating, regardless of her moaning about the taste. It grosses me out and I turn the channel.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

RoughDraft — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:39:59 GMT

I mean no disrespect for you feelings, but I am truly at a loss as to why seeing people eat turns so many people off. If we don't eat, we don't survive.

I can understand if someone digs their hands into a bowl of food and slathers it all over their faces why it might offend some people, but people eating normally seems to upset so many. How do some of you eat in restaurants with other people eating all around you?

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

GenXmuse — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:42:02 GMT

Yeah, the close ups aren't necessary. I get the point without them. Everything is om, nom, nom!

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Styleovertrend — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:46:37 GMT

I don’t watch people in restaurants eating.I’m usually focused in on the people I’m with. These food shows focus in on the hots and other putting food in their mouth, talking with their mouths open and making sounds while they are chewing. That is not appetizing.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

RoughDraft — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:51:58 GMT

@Styleovertrend wrote:
I don’t watch people in restaurants eating.I’m usually focused in on the people I’m with. These food shows focus in on the hots and other putting food in their mouth, talking with their mouths open and making sounds while they are chewing. That is not appetizing.

So you are able to tolerate the people you are with while they eat providing food doesn't fall out of their mouths while they talk. You just don't like closeups?

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Pook — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:35:13 GMT

I just can't imagine anyone being grossed out by being shown anyone eating food being sold. I guess we all have some abnormal things that bother us.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

phluphy — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:08:47 GMT

I don't watch the gourmet food shows for that reason....especially Alberti & Rachael, they overdo the eating with their mouths full of food and talk...not a pleasent site to watch. I go online if I'm interested.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

mspatmac — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:09:05 GMT

I was taught as a young child never toal with your mouth full and have taught my kids and grands how impolite it is. But we know most hosts can't stop talking for any reason. Maybe if they took smaller bits and camera didn't zoom in it would be less offensive. Good manners would solve the issue.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Styleovertrend — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:07:28 GMT

The abnormal thing is eating with your mouth full and stuffing ones mouth with food and playing to the camer, all while making noises....but manners have gone the way of the wooly mammoth. Anything is ok nowadays

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Patriot3 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:00:54 GMT

@RoughDraft wrote:
I mean no disrespect for you feelings, but I am truly at a loss as to why seeing people eat turns so many people off. If we don't eat, we don't survive.

I can understand if someone digs their hands into a bowl of food and slathers it all over their faces why it might offend some people, but people eating normally seems to upset so many. How do some of you eat in restaurants with other people eating all around you?

@RoughDraft I understand what you are saying, but watching someone eat as in a restaurant, etc, you are not right in their face, as when the camera zooms in on the host's face. We don't need to be that close to them. That is an immediate turn off for me.

They roll their eyes and act like they are going to die or something (Rachel and Alberti). That is ridiculous.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

GenXmuse — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:02:53 GMT

The way some of them eat and carry on, you'd think they're experiencing a more carnal activity.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Patriot3 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:06:55 GMT

@Styleovertrend wrote:
I don’t watch people in restaurants eating.I’m usually focused in on the people I’m with. These food shows focus in on the hots and other putting food in their mouth, talking with their mouths open and making sounds while they are chewing. That is not appetizing.

@Styleovertrend Absolutely agree w/you. We can see them eating.....we don't need a zoom in w/all the ridiculous, over zealous, exaggerated reactions.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

chlema — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:13:20 GMT

@Patriot3 Agree. David is another that overdoes it. I know many like his dance but to me it looks ridiculous.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

corita — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:19:09 GMT

@Patriot3 wrote:
@Styleovertrend wrote:
I don’t watch people in restaurants eating.I’m usually focused in on the people I’m with. These food shows focus in on the hots and other putting food in their mouth, talking with their mouths open and making sounds while they are chewing. That is not appetizing.
@Styleovertrend Absolutely agree w/you. We can see them eating.....we don't need a zoom in w/all the ridiculous, over zealous, exaggerated reactions.
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I totally agree. I turn off the food shows when Rachel is hosting. But Antonella and David are overdoing the 'yum,yum in your face look" too!!

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Patriot3 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:19:09 GMT

@GenXmuse wrote:
The way some of them eat and carry on, you'd think they're experiencing a more carnal activity.

@GenXmuse You said, in a tactful way, what I was thinking.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

mspatmac — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:55:20 GMT

@Patriot3 wrote:
@GenXmuse wrote:
The way some of them eat and carry on, you'd think they're experiencing a more carnal activity.
@GenXmuse You said, in a tactful way, what I was thinking.

@GenXmuse @Patriot3

I too was thinking the same thing and you said it perfectly

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

CalminHeart — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:55:40 GMT

Hosts are doing what they've been told to do....and what the producer is saying in their ear.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Johnnyeager — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:33:53 GMT

I absolutely do not believe that a producer would be telling them to make faces and make noises while eating.

I believe that they do that on their own as part of their acting performance.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Caaareful Shopper — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:16:02 GMT

Sharon Faetsch was the queen of those suggestive eating close-ups. Along with her food soliloquies, her expressions were legendary. I think some of the hosts think if Sharon had that gig for so long, she must have been successful, so they copy it.

Not all the hosts eat that way. Jill Bauer (fmr), Mary Beth, Leah, Jayne Brown -- all manage to eat with enthusiasm without overdoing it for the camera.

But who are the permanent gourmet food hosts? Alberti & Rachel; so the Q wants over-gushing and in-your-face food ecstasy.

Re: Please no zooming in when hosts eat and smack with mouths open

Reva — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:17:00 GMT

I don't mind the eating at all...it's all the eye rolls, happy dances and ridiculous descriptions some of the hosts use to lure you into buying. When they start describing the texture, flavor undertones, melt in your mouth factor, subtle this, subtle that...OMG...who does that in real life LOL!!