Your WTF?! moment from Top Chef

[telophase]

Judge, to contestant: "So, Casey, since you're from Texas I guess you're familiar with elk?"

OH YES, THE GREAT TEXAS ELK. I CAN'T WALK AROUND OUTSIDE WITHOUT TRIPPING OVER AN ELK. WHEN I THINK OF TEXAS GAME MEATS, I THINK OF ELK.

Comments

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

WTF?! HAhahahaa XD
I mean, whut?!
Is that like saying, "Well, Tammy. You're Canadian so I guess you're familiar with Caribou?" BECAUSE WE EAT IT HERE ALL THE TIME!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No - the elk's range is in the Rocky Mountains and parts north. :D

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

No! No! You've forgotten those great thundering herds of elk that would cover ten square miles of the vast Texan plains befre the white man came.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

How could I forget the giant Texas elk, beloved of cave paintings, myth, and legend!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

HAAH! That's what I thought but then I was like, "Now Tammy, you're not entirely familiar with that part of the States. Maybe they have... special elk there. That like open plains. OR maybe they farm them?"

XD

[errantimpulses.livejournal.com]

Whaaaat? There's kangaroos there, too, I hear.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And three-toed sloths!

[flamika.livejournal.com]

....there are elk in Texas?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY MY POINT

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

It may not be very 'Texas', but to be fair, she did also say that her family hunted elk and that she was very familiar with the meat.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it doesn't excuse Colicchio's inane statement, since there are no elk in Texas. :)

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Aw c'mon! You're telling me that you've never engaged in any completely erroneous assumptions about New York City? ;-)

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I like how Casey's family apparently has some connection to every kind of food and cooking, ever.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

...

I have to think to know what an elk looks like.

I'm sure they thrive near deserts...

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Elk?

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

DOGS! DOGS IN ELK!! :-D

(Well, *someone* had to say it!)

[derjmeister.livejournal.com]

Was that more or less WTF to you than Colicchio's wondering why Hung did not showcase his Vietnamese heritage in this EC? I'm inclined to say less because I don't think there are elk in Vietnam, either. And I realize that Texas is a country, but it's closer to a country where there are elk.

(GO DALE GO)

[the-z.livejournal.com]

Psh, on our drive down to A-kon, we practically have to wade through elk on our way in.



...OH WAIT DUR THAT'S RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC!


fyi, judge, those are armadillo on the road... To my knowledge, they're not a Texas delicacy either.

[inkblot14.livejournal.com]

Wait...you mean...

you mean you didn't...


you didn't Google this first!?
XD

http://www.texaselkcompany.com/

and...
(http://www.texasbuckhorns.com/elkhunting.htm)

[inkblot14.livejournal.com]

Mind you, what I'd really like are some Texas Long-Elk. With horns that go straight out sideways.

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

Which someone would promptly shoot in order to take the head as a coat rack for their roadhouse (or roadhouse-themed restaurant, soon to have franchises across the state).

[mundeemo.livejournal.com]

I have eaten elk fried steak at a big game restaurant but that was five years ago. WTF Casey, I had respect for you now it's Dale all the way.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I presented a friend from Texas with a cookbook titled Elegant Elk, Delicious Deer. He liked it....