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I’ve cast my vote for the best blue food at amateur gourmet—some really disgusting looking food, though very cool oatmeal.
And it was adam who sent this:
rocco: the sadness continues.
The purina.com link seems to be busted.
The strawberry muffins reminded me of the time my sister thought she was using blueberries and instead grabbed some diced, frozen beets. Not only were they inedible, you can’t believe the stench they left behind.
Tsk tsk tsk, Mr. Ruhlman. I’ll give you leeway because after reading this, I’m not sure I can type straight either.
Here’s the real link:
http://www.purina.com/company/press/2006/RestaurantInspiredFelineCuisine.aspx
Next up: Rocco DiSpirito sells used Shriner cars to cats.
Someone stick a fork in Rocco. He’s done.
Yup, busted link but it does give one an idea in the URL…I’m guessing this is the Fancy Feast canned cat food of “roasted salmon with a savory reduction” or something equally asinine? Yeah, like Fluffy cares — or wouldn’t prefer casserole de garbage (especially in the middle of the night).
Any of my house felines would just puke the shit up anyway. They may as well barf up Friskies.
The sales pitch is about as lame as Healthy Choice’s “we add flavor to taste” campaign. Ugh.
Thanks for the links, as always…
–parkbench
Oh….my…God. No! SURELY this must be a parody!It is.right? RIGHT!!??
Oh….my…God. No! SURELY this must be a parody!It is.right? RIGHT!!??
Wow…at least this paves the way for Rocco’s new restaurant for cats only. This way he can get another reality show on the air, this time on animal planet
Who cares if it’s parody? It’s brilliant!
Sorry, bourdain, it’s all too true … like Tom Lehrer said, you just can’t do satire anymore in this world.
–parkbench
Chef Rocco deserves to be reduced to shilling cat food. Pompous ass that he still is. Check out the article on him in a recent GQ (the one with DiNiro on the cover).
For a guy trying to work his way back into people’s good graces, he still hasn’t learned how to turn down the Dick Factor.
Oh, man. I don’t care what he did, no chef deserves to be stuck shilling for cat food.
>>”Like most cat owners, I love to make my cat’s dreams come true because knowing he’s happy makes me happy,” said DiSpirito.
Um Last I knew, Purina was involved in live animal testing. Wonder how Rocco’s puss would feel about that?
When Rocco told me he was gettin’ some pussy, I just assumed……
My cat won’t touch the stuff!!
A cat named Pumpkin? Let me guess… it’s orange. Does he have a white cat named Snowball and a black one named Midnight?
And how does Lincoln design a model that looks like an American Motors car from the death-rattle era just as Rocco decides to shill for them?
the link is from june 2006. slow news day?
First Michael, love your writing.. Keep it up.
Next cats.. Cats are nearly as bad as dogs. Does it stink? Let’s eat it. We don’t need not steekin’ gourmet food.
Cats lick their own butts. I really don’t think they have any right to be picky about food – and I say that as a dedicated cat person.
Also, the blue oatmeal reminds me of high school genetics class. We did fruit fly breeding, and the oatmeal in their jars was dyed blue so we could see them. Yum.
sorcha,
I have to second that. At least it was whole rolled oats and not cooked oatmeal otherwise the almonds would’ve turned into pupae and next thing you know my mind’s turned them into giant fruit flies ready to pillage my sink of dirty dishes . . .
Actually, that might not be such a bad idea. Except the giant maggots.
The washed-up despirited Rocco should hook up with FN’s aging porn-star wannabe, Sandra Lee, if he wants to re-jump-start his TV career. Imagine the comic pussibilities of a sexy chef slinging Cool Whip around the kitchen, with the plastered Lee nearby, proudly exhibiting her stretched-marked, age-spotted, sagging, gigantic breasts. FN could name the show “The Drunk and the Hunk”.
Or, the Whore and the Bore.
How the mighty fall.
First Fancy Feast had Lauren Bacall…now Rocco…
I’m surprised that no one seems to have made the point that a lot of cat food is eaten by poor people.
Seen in this light, Mr. Dispirito should be praised for championing high quality, esthetically pleasing and inexpensive nutrition for those who can not afford to eat at places like “The French Laundry” and other temples of high cuisine that so many of you get so lathered-up about.
OMG Michael, I’m dying here.
Are we SURE this isn’t from The Onion? I guess it’s too bizarre not to be true.
I find this hysterical for at least five reasons. But I’ll spare the long rant.
I’m a CVT and even my stray cats won’t eat the garden greens stuff.
The shock value isn’t that great -Fancy Feast is owned by Nestle and slaughterhouse and pet food industries have been linked for a long time.
http://www.api4animals.org/facts.php?p=359&more=1
My point being, considering the nasty, freaky-looking meat they served up on his TV show, I don’t think this is too much of a stretch.
But my cats deserve better.
p.s. I forgot to thank you for the Serious Eats link – Bourdain looks smoking hot in those fatigues. Arrest me, please.
Ok, just walked away from a new Paula Deen episode where she had been dicing a chili pepper. No she didn’t say right on camera, “I’d better not pick my nose or my face will swell up like a balloon”!
Add this to her chocolate fountain lick psycho-flight, and her running after the cameraman with a spatula tantrum, and I think we have a case for Shady Pines!
Or better yet, maybe FN should stick her on the Rocco/Sandra show and she can lick Rocco and beat Sandra with the spatula, all the time running around the kitchen picking her nose?
Maura, I don’t think Rocco’s enough of a celebrity to end up in The Onion.
Well at least the argument about you being a snob is over!
BRP–You forgot to add Cool Whip to the Rocco-Sandra-Paula menage a trois.
Sorcha,
Maybe Rocco isn’t famous enough to end up in the Onion, but he deserves it anyway.
I vote that RR and SL get replaced by Amy Sedaris. She has about as many credentials to have her own cooking show, her 20-minute meals are actually doable in 20 minutes, her crafts are far less frightening that SL’s tablescapes, and the networks would be more focused on days when she decides to wear her fat suit than trying to get her to show cleavage. Plus, she’d look so much better with Rocco than Sandra Lee ever would; especially if she can reject him on air in favor of her imaginary boyfriend, Ricky.
Amy Sedaris FTW! Bonus points if she gets her brother on tv with her.
Oh Rocco Rocco Rocco….. just so sad, though not surprised… I don’t know what to say.
Rocco. What a train wreck. But he can still hawk his products on QVC–I just checked, they’re still offered. Cars, cat food, and the Q…..hmmm.
JoP
One does what one must to pay the bills. If Sandra Lee could figure out a way to market her pantry overstock of canned pheasant to the elite cat owner crowd she could give up churning out swill to humans.
Maybe she could drag the adored Betty White from the heartworm commercials to push the pheasant.
These links and all are great, but I miss the writings of one Michael Ruhlman.
Has Rocco pissed off that many people in NY that he’s doing this?
So does Chef Thomas Keller have his own blog?
I’d be interested in Joseph Keller’s blog; if there is one.
Even appears that Nancy Silverton is influenced by the success of Rachael Ray and Sandra Lee:
Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals with Ingredients from Jars, Cans, Bags, and Boxes
Author: Silverton, Nancy
Status: Not Yet Published
Convenience Cooking
Description: Compiling a list of her favorite products that come in jars–and cans, bags, and boxes–an award-winning chef has created easy-to-follow recipes that require less than 30 minutes to prepare.
The best thing about Rocco’s cat food shill is how heartfelt it is. I might just go out and check out this Fancy Feast, and I don’t even have a cat.
Ahhh…Rocco has finally found his metier.
Maybe some of you may find some entertaainment at our semihorrible site deticated to Scamdra Leetard and the complete B.S. she concocts.
http://community.livejournal.com/semihorrible/
We have started a thread for the Fool Netwoks new “cupiedoll” Inbred Humpmen and her new “Simply Disgusting” show. The FN know gatuitous titty shots should increase their rating so non cooking men have something to look at. Are these shows meant to place this country’s morals in the passing lane on the “Highway to Hell?