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Alton Brown / Food Network

rerun

Looks like episode #1 runs again tomorrow... Wednesday at 10 pm EST. Probably goes good with a cold Foster's
 
The hour before "Feasting" aired the Food Network ran a retrospective "Behind Good Eats" or somethinf like that, AB was shown wearing a gray/black Roadcrafter in several shots. There has been a fair amount of discussion on this and other boards in the past about his being a rider.

The shots where he's talking into his tankbag remind me of my favorite roadtrip movie "Terra Circa", filmed by a bunch of cheap/kooky english guys with Super8 cameras, mostly held in one hand while they rode.

Steve
 
knary said:
it might be time to spend more than $5 for my television service...
No, no,no...you spend the $5 on beer to take to friends' houses that have TiVo and/or DirectTV to watch the show. 'Nuff said. :buds
Great show, though. I like his style. Great gig.
 
20774 said:
I'm not sure, but I got the impression that Alton was a Beemer rider before the show and this is his bike....
He was. He started on a Suzuki 650, then moved up to an RT.
 
While Alton spoke into the tank camera, it made me feel like a munchkin sitting on his handlebars looking at him. I would have gone for the helmet camera and naration.
 
I watched episode #1 again last night

what a great show, i commented that just watching it made me want to go for a long eat across america ride

wow just gave me a great idea for the next POA

"Pounds across America"
weight gained multplied by miles

so if you gain 20 lbs on a 2000 miles ride your score would be 4000
 
marK11LT said:
I watched episode #1 again last night

what a great show, i commented that just watching it made me want to go for a long eat across america ride

wow just gave me a great idea for the next POA

"Pounds across America"
weight gained multplied by miles

so if you gain 20 lbs on a 2000 miles ride your score would be 4000
Shouldn't that be 40,000 points??
 
marK11LT said:
I watched episode #1 again last night

what a great show, i commented that just watching it made me want to go for a long eat across america ride

wow just gave me a great idea for the next POA

"Pounds across America"
weight gained multplied by miles

so if you gain 20 lbs on a 2000 miles ride your score would be 4000


How about IGA...Iron Gut Association, and it would be an IGA 4000 ..(ok 40,000 for you math wiz's out there) :eat
 
Man I gotta explain to you guys how to do math. 40,000 is correct.

However with the way I ride, I have been losing weight cause I am enjoying the ride too much to stop and eat.
 
Me too. Although I do stop to eat when my grumbly tumbly tells me to. It has been a couple of months since I have been on the scales but in the first 3 months after I picked up my RT, I lost 5-8 pounds and I did not change my eating habits.

Come on Food TV Canada, get Alton's series on the air! I want to watch it just like my buddies south of the border. :eat :drink :D
 
RTRandy said:
Yea he's wearing a Savannah II Jacket. Great choice. Probably got it in the same shop as were they bought the bike for the series. I have a feeling the Food Channel footed the bill for the bike and clothes the same way they pay for the potatoes and avocados on his show. Ya think ? Is that a great job or what. He gets all the french fies, mashed potatoes, and guacamole he can eat and a R1200RT thrown in.


That bike is his. He also rides a GS too. I wished that he would have rode his beemer for the show, street cred!! haha
 
He seems to carry several riding suits in the van, including an Aerostich, a BMW (looks like a Savanna) and Vanson leathers, plus some strange raingear.

Sorry, I'm not enthused by his picks of places. For instance, on the last installment they stop at a steak joint in Mexican Hat, but don't get to the world's greatest Navajo Tacos at the Cameron Trading Post.

I also find it curious that BMW isn't an advertiser, considering the obviousness of the machine he is riding. Who's the main sponsor? Kia? Maybe the sag wagon is a Kia. Maybe he can rebadge the GS as a KIA.

I can't wait for the episode where his rear drive starts to growl and he fixes it by inserting french fries and chili.

But it's been noted elsewhere that I'm an old curmudgeon "on a high horse". So, ignore my observations, get a giant bottle of Tums and a gallon of Pepto at Costco, and hit the highway food circuit.

pmdave
 
when I first joined the MOA there was a regular feature in the ON about a guy and gal that rated different places they stopped, whatever happened to them?
 
marK11LT said:
when I first joined the MOA there was a regular feature in the ON about a guy and gal that rated different places they stopped, whatever happened to them?

Yeah, I remember them. Seems, if I recall, they used to disagree with each other a lot, but in a pleasant way.

John
 
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