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Food Poker: Playing With Your Dinner

RSS / Editor / 02 November 2007 / 1 Comments

DO you take risks with food? The Internet is replete with tales and graphic images of people who have become intimate with food. But would you gamble with the stuff you eat?

No. Only madman would, or a drunk on their way home passing a van selling food-style meats.

But in spite of what the Government tells us food is not the enemy - a kebab is not a live grenade.

Sadly, no-one bothered to tell the BBC and daytime telly gawpers are watching Food Poker.

What's this you ask?

Cards printed on edible rice paper? The king of hearts being the still warm heart of a lion? No. And no.

As the press release tells us, this is "an innovative take on a cookery show for BBC Two combining the thrill of a poker round with the competitive edge that always ensues when you put two or more top chefs in a kitchen together".

Think of the motorway service station not as an eatery but as a large casino, with each chip representing the chance of failure or success. Will the salt preserve you or kill you? Who will leave the table first...running and clutching their stomach?

Your pay your money, you take your chances.

Verdict: Overcooked.

Tags: Food, Poker

Comments (1)

  1. Roy B | 08 November 2007

    It was George Bernard Shaw who said that "The key to success is to insult the greatest number of people", which is lucky for me as I've got that incredibly rare talent of doing just that without even trying!

    Talking of successfully insulting large numbers of people, the BBC have clearly taken this to a new level insulting the intelligence of a million daytime TV viewers with their latest show, Food Poker. TV light entertainment has finally reached its lowest point - it is the worst program I have ever seen, and that includes Peter and Jordan's new chat show!

    Just seeing those poor chefs sat around a table being dealt cards with leeks, pork chops and the like printed on them is cringe worthy. Selecting additional 'food cards' from a flop - an appropriate word - they are then sent off to cook a dish using the ingredients they have in their hand; it makes me want to throw up without even tasting the finished product.

    www.roytheboypoker.com

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