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"Think about it: There are three possibilities, right? 1) Alex may indeed knowingly have stolen Ed's pea puree and used it; 2) Alex may have made his own pea puree and been wrongly maligned by his co-contestants; or, 3) Alex unwittingly may have mistaken Ed's pea puree for his own and taken Ed's, but truly believing that he was using his own. In two of the three possibilities, Alex did not intentionally commit any wrongdoing."
-Tom Colicchio does a terrific job of explaining why I don't watch "Top Chef" "Pea-Gate," which has rocked the "Top Chef"-watching world.
There was a second peapod behind the glassy bowl.
I also took a pea earlier.
Isn't #3 kind of ridiculous? Like, he was incepted with the idea that he made a pea puree the day before, but he really didn't. I liked the movie and all, but it can't really be a go-to excuse from now on. And we can just keep going and create even more reasons for why Alex did not intentionally do it. Maybe there was just extra Swanson pea puree sitting there so Alex used it. (Maybe I am too invested in the TV.)
# 3 is stupid, if that were the case, then wouldn't Alex's puree be sitting there waiting for Ed?
I think there are really only 2 options. 1.) Alex stole the puree. and 2.)Ed forgot his back at the studio and instead of using footage of Alex in the process of creating his, or of showing footage of the lonely container of Ed's puree back in the TC kitchen, Bravo chose to make a controversy so that people would have something to talk about other than how much the show sucks this season and all the chefs are boring as hell. (this is also why they are trying to turn Ed and Tiffany's friendship into a repeat of Hosea and that less-than-talented-whiny-chef who only made it as far as she did because they made out on camera.)
Notwithstanding "we judges absolutely never have access to behind-the-scenes conversations or goings-on," was Colicchio in the kitchen the entire time??!
wasn't, rather
God. Aren't there cameras everywhere? Can't they roll back the tape to at least solve the case of the Pea Puree? This is Real World Season Two stuff.