Man v. Food

We don't have cable or satellite at our house. We just have a digital antenna that accesses the free channels (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, etc.). Then we also have a TiVo box, that costs $10 a month, to record our favorite shows (which are all on the network channels anyway), and we also subscribe to Netflix, which for $10 a month, gets us pretty much any movie or show we want from any other channel anyway.

Last month I was looking through the Netflix instant lists, and came across a show I had never heard of - Man v. Food. It's a show created by the Travel Channel. Travel plus food plus man? I love all three of those things! It's like this show was written for me! I started with season one, and pretty quickly blew through all three seasons. About halfway through season two, my husband sat down and watched a couple with me. During one of the shows, he turned to me and said, "You have a crush on Adam [Richman, the host], don't you?" I'm pretty sure I blushed. I mean, he's so friendly with people! And he has been to all these cool cities across the country, and eaten at all these cool places. Did I mention he's friendly?

One day I want to be at a restaurant when he is taking on their challenge (the premise of the show is whether he can beat the challenge at particular restaurants, whether it is eating the 5 lb burrito, or the hottest buffalo wings ever made - stuff like that). At the end of level three, he was at a restaurant in Ames, Iowa, and I got SO excited because we lived in Ames three years ago. Then when I looked the restaurant up online, I learned that it is located DIRECTLY in our old back yard, but the restaurant opened after we moved. I was SO bummed.

One day I will be paid to fly places to eat food. One day.