Chop This

I didn't have a use for the show Chopped on the Food Network. I don't think culinary competition shows really work in any substantial sense to begin with, and I think there are already way too many culinary competition shows as it is. But as dubious as I was about Chopped in the beginning, I have to say, it's set new lows for foodie pretentiousness. "What we have here is an egg-rolled chimichurri apricot sauce with wino loins lightly pan-fried in a combination of butter and plutonium, with serried slaw and squid hearts basted with titmouse entrails and whale blubber..."

Knock it off already, Pierre, it's a fricking sandwich.