Comments on: Dear Travel Channel: Please Replace Andrew Zimmern With … Anyone Else

By: kofi

kofi — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:35:54 +0000

Wow. A. Zimmern appears to have gained about 80 pounds around the waist and thighs. Maybe cut down to ten plates per episode???

By: Travelchannelgeek

Travelchannelgeek — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:15:34 +0000

I’m a huge fan of both Andrew and anthony. I can see the similarities in the shows but what shows aren’t somewhat similar nowadays?? There is no reason to put he man down on his hosting skills. He is who he is and worked hard to get there. If you have that much of an issue with it then just don’t watch it. But I do find an enjoyment in both shows. There is no need for anytype of replacement.

By: Roxy

Roxy — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:49:55 +0000

I guess AZ is sort of like mushrooms. You either love him or hate him. No in between. Apropos analogy? For the record, I’m a fan.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:54:04 +0000

I honestly, had no idea how much press this blog would get when I first stumbled on to it. But it shows just how passionate people are about what they watch. I began watching this show because I loved Anthony’s show and wanted to see if there was a contrast. What I love about Anthony B is that he is actually quite respectful of the cultures he visits, and if she has something to say – or if he addresses something that bothers him, he at least waits until he is editing to voice it – and even then it’s not a statement made that could be considered mean to the culture that was nice enough to allow him to visit.

One great concern I have had about Andrew Z (outside of the smacking) was that he was sometimes so rude to the people who invited him into their homes. I think once she noted that someone’s food was like something he would only feed his dogs. Now the place he was at was poor – not I have 4 cans of food in my cabinet and one of them is beans and the other is some type of canned meat kind f poor. I mean that, if I don’t catch this odd fish and add some grass I found to it and feed it to my village, we will all die of starvation kind of poor. And he was making faces and acting like he would puke, and these people gave him the best of all they had. That is the thing that bothers me about watching his show. I have not ever seen Anthony B treat a family like that – even when he was stone cold drunk.

I am proud of Andrew for his weight loss, for his time spent working to raise awareness for the homeless, and for his continued efforts to remind people and kids to eat right. i would like to hope that his comments were meant to show his honesty, but what they reflected was a lack of compassion.

I have not been able to make it through an entire hour. So, I think the initial post is a powerful message…changes should be made.

By: Kofi

Kofi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:02:36 +0000

I have not posted for a while, but that was seriously funny. :;

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:06:45 +0000

Having enjoyed another reliably informative and entertaining episode of No Reservations, I remained tuned in for the inevitable rerun of Bizarre Foods. Tolerable enough were his predictably pithy narratives and humorless tongue in cheek explanation of its delicacy status before consuming (for the 10 thousandth time) tongue and cheek. But like you I soon found myself screaming at television and tearing at my ears, begging for some astute producer or merciful sound engineer to put an end to the grotesque, slovenly acoustics of gluttony. Seriously, either enroll this slob in etiquette courses or get rid of him.

By: Maxine

Maxine — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:34:07 +0000

It’ll be a sad day when AZ’s show is canceled because of a little lip smacking from time to time. I just love him to pieces. He’s very real & seems to be someone I’d like to hang out with. He reminds me of Curly of the 3 Stooges. By the way, there are some cultures where a good lod burp is expected so the host knows his food has been appreciated. I hope there will be many more episodes of AZ’s & AB’s shows. I watch both for entirely diffrent reasons.

By: fairyface5

fairyface5 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:29:21 +0000

As logical as that sounds, I was actually the one who forced my parents to stop chewing with their mouth open, growing up in rural PA, eating off of TV trays. You get the picture.

Seriously, it’s grating to the ears for some of us. Ask around randomly if you don’t believe me. thanks!

By: Azure Sky

Azure Sky — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:56:57 +0000

rairyface5: thing is, your and your husbands reactions are not instinctual, they are learned reactions from childhood, constant “dont smack your lips” and “dont chew with your mouth open” among many other little “dont be rude” neuances of “polite” western societies tend to cause alot of issues for people dealing with other cultures.

now the one thing I find nasty is people who pick their nose at the table….(mention this because it happened today…) the nasty shit looked at it then wiped it on his napkin…..

By: fairyface5

fairyface5 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:02:48 +0000

I just want to make clear.

People do not dislike his lips macking and chewing with his mouth open because it’s “rude.” He can go be rude all day as far as I’m concerned.

A certain percentage of people simply cannot stand that noise and the site of saliva-mixed food on someone’s tongue.

Incessant saliva sound, to certain people’s ears, is unbearably annoying.

I’m a laid-back artist, musician, my husband a tattooed builder. Neither of us are neurotic, but we both angrily change the channel when we hear chewing noises.

We are not alone either. Many people feel the same way as we do. AZ’s producers could cut those noises. Maybe they do now. I haven’t watched in years.