Ahh I’m hungry!!

So on Valentine’s Day I spent a good amount of time watching the food network! They had specials on how various Valentine’s treats are made General observations:

- They make cinnamon hearts by dumping pure cinnamon onto candy hearts at the end of the process. I don’t like cinnamon hearts, so when they started pouring the cinnamon I shouted NOOOOO at the screen.
- It is amazing how much candy gets made by hand!! They showed people decorating champagne truffles really really well by hand and said there are only two people there that can do it properly. WHAT IF THOSE PEOPLE DIE???
- There are people who are amazingly good at hand-flipping lollipop liquid into molds.
- Dipping strawberries into chocolate is a perfectly good waste of strawberries. Also, if the chocolate is too hot it will scald the strawberry. How do you scald a strawberry??? What does that even mean??

Then I guess they gave up on Valentine’s Day because they showed an episode about this guy that went to Ethiopia to sample their food. The entire thing was a mess. He tried to introduce it by saying that we have this impression that Ethiopia is full of starving people and terrible… and then pretty much spent an hour confirming this. I don’t think they prepared him well enough for his trip, because at one point he implied that eating rotten meat would be a little easier to stomach than their food. Basically every time he ate something, he would make this face and then try to play it off like he just doesn’t have *the palate* for it. I thought that by the end of the trip he would be so annoyed at having to eat this crap that he’d give like 100 Ethiopians diabetes by passing around a Snickers. This somehow didn’t happen… that was an interesting episode… remind me to never go there