you are cordially invited to my bean fest.

i would have guessed that "dinner party" and "cheap bastard" were kind of mutually exclusive, but the existence of good deal with dave lieberman has proven me wrong. i haven't seen dave hanging out on the tv schedule lately, but apparently it's one of the few shows the food network has recorded in hd.

(btw, thank you, time warner, for proffering the dog whisperer in hd so i can see the gingivitis of demon chihuahuas, but remaining so staunchly committed to excluding non-hd bravo)

so the first episode of good deal that i watched featured a three-course dinner party based entirely on canned beans. i mean, they are only 64 cents a can. and that's right, you too can make vanilla and cannellini bean ice cream and (proudly) serve it to your friends, courtesy of this recipe.


yummy. but cheapness aside, would you seriously want to attend a dinner party where you're ingesting bean course after bean course? maybe my gi tract is wimpy, but i'm pretty sure i couldn't (physically) handle it.

ok, so that epi ends and so what's up next for dave and his lucky friends? that's right, an episode called yesterday's bread. he is now feeding his guests a dinner party menu based entirely on resurrecting stale bread. i'm not sure whether i would be less offended by an invitation to this party or the bean fest.

how does this guy still manage to entice his friends to come over and eat his (cheap ass) food?


oh right. because he looks like that.

i'd like to see guy fieri try to get away with shit like this.