I think doing a classic, and doing it really well, is always okay, especially here, when they were trying to do a Food Across America! thing for the unit.

The pasta salad, though, just baffled me. *I* can make that. They chopped some vegetables and cooked some pasta. I mean, sure, it's a staple of most picnics and potlucks, but there's almost no way to make that *outstanding* and worthy of competition.

Yeah, that was mystifying.

PR: Yay!

Exactly, sj! Good god, yes.

I find it interesting that both PR and TC had people from the winning group in the bottom in the same week.

yes. I agree.

And:

Thank Zeus for the result.

PR rocked. I can totally live with Magical Elves' new trick of having one person on a team be in the winner's ring, and the other on the bottom, because it's allowing the judges to really call people on bullshit.

But I still have no idea why I'm watching "Models of the Runway. It's insipid, yet I can't seem to look away.

Matar: You're adorable, but you had nothing to do with Erica being sent home. Basically, you just stood there and looked pretty. Which, really, is your job. Also, you don't get to feel worse than the model who was actually eliminated.

Fatma: Once again: Logan is gay. And he just not into you. get over it. And chill.

Whoever it was Fatma's in a feud with, because I've totally lost track of who's whom: Just. Deal. With. It. Already.

Koji: Call me.

PR rocked. I can totally live with Magical Elves' new trick of having one person on a team be in the winner's ring, and the other on the bottom, because it's allowing the judges to really call people on bullshit.

Totally. ESPECIALLY because jackass what's his name EXPLICITLY said he was going to coast and let Ra'mon do all the work!

I was kind of hoping that Sexist McDouchebagface would go home this week on TC, but Preeti was pretty clearly doomed from the get-go. She seems like a very nice person, but she has zero palate.

And agree with the WTF re: pasta salad. It looked like something you could get at any supermarket deli counter in the country.

(And really, Dear Every Cheftestant Ever: DON'T MAKE SALAD!!! The judges do not like it!)

I'm glad Ra'Mon won but I hated his avant garde look. A lot. Also glad to see the back end of Mitchell. I cannot believe he just flat out admitted he had a plan to ride Ra'Mon to the victory.

I do not get the Fatma/anonymous horse face girl beef at all, but I do know that if I apologized to someone and they continued to carry on as horse face girl had done, that would be the end. Fatma is a better woman than me, because I would've just gotten up and walked away from her. Left her neighing to the air.