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GangsterChef!

27 May 01:00pm

Filed under: Channel 10, Gangsters, Masterchef, Satire, Television

For years, I avoided The Sopranos because I thought it was a show about high-pitched singers. When I realised it was actually about mobsters, I never missed an episode. Who doesn’t love gangster shows?

Come on, only gangsters and bankers wear pin stripes, and what's the difference between the two?

Until recently, I also avoided MasterChef, as I don’t much care for cooking shows. Then I learned that it, too, is in fact a show about gangsters. Now I’m glued to the thing six nights a week!

What’s this, you say? MasterChef really is actually a cooking show? Sure. And Kyle Sandilands is a good bloke. Without question, MasterChef is a show about gangsters. Let’s examine the evidence…

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Chris says:

11:13pm | 19/06/11

Masterchef is not about food. They must have an army of psychologists to screen the potential contestants - firstly they have to find people who suffer the delusion that they really are masterchefs, and then they have to screen for totally inadequate personalities- the sort of adults who cry if… Read more »
jimbo says:

08:52am | 14/06/11

Last nights episode was surely a comedy. I was in stitches watching the four contestants trying to make a hamburger from scratch. One of the poor cooks finished up with about 15 kg of various types of meat in three different bowls and then seemed to lose track of what… Read more »

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