![]() ![]() 7kHUpqYmfJ- Queens of Bravo November 5, 2021 Nobody has done more for the fast food industry than Lisa Barlow. Signature dishes: Diet Coke with pebble ice and lemon, Taco Bell, Del Taco, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Slim Jims, KitKats, Vida tequila ![]() Monday: The Lisa Barlow Fast-Food ExperienceĬulinary approach: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City drive-thru cuisine Even so, would I end up throwing my drinks at friends? Pooping on the floor? All that would be revealed in a week of giving in to the 2023 Housewives Diet. And no factoring in Housewives’ alcohol and drug intake, because I don’t think my body can handle that much Xanax. There have to be ground rules, though: I couldn’t do anything that happened too late in the game this year, so no RHOBH weed-infused dinner party from hell. ![]() Maybe this year’s TV drama could be chalked up to too much fine dining. I already know that contestants on series like The Bachelor act the way they do because of too much liquor. I figured the best way to truly understand the Housewives, as an almost 4DX intersensory experience, would be to follow their culinary footsteps and see what emotions or gastrointestinal distress it stirred up. (Househusband Harry Hamlin is a notable exception to this rule, because when he pops up on Beverly Hills, it’s generally about the pasta.) But when food plays a big role on a Bravo show, it really looms large - 2023 was the Year of the Food Fight on Real Housewives, most notably in the reboot of The Real Housewives of New York, where comestible squabbles were often the center of the drama.Īs any reality fan knows, the edit only reveals the story the producers want to tell, so it sometimes felt like we were missing context for these blowups: What’s the big deal about that one market Ubah and Sai wanted to stop at? Why is it such a faux pas to serve cheese at a party? Why did Mary Cosby scoff at the lack of room service at Trixie Motel before turning around and ordering a Filet-O-Fish? And over on TikTok, what ungodly things is Bethenny Frankel doing to bagels and cottage cheese? The TV shows only told half the story, and I wanted to know why all of these matters were so urgent in the final cut. When James Kennedy said it wasn’t about the pasta on Vanderpump Rules - a show that might have been far more food focused if it were set anywhere but WeHo - he meant it in more ways than one. I figure the divide is coastal: The Real Housewives of New Jersey centers around big family dinners, the Potomac Housewives always eat well, and Atlanta established the importance of non-white refrigerators, but the California franchises have had a little bit of a ’Zemped-out disinterest in their diets. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo: Chelsea Guglielmino/Bravo via Getty Imagesīravo franchises are like dog breeds: Some are simply more food motivated than others. ![]()
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