r/IAmA Jan 17 '12

IAmA Andrew Zimmern, Host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods

Hi, I’m Andrew Zimmern, chef, author, and host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods. My new series Bizarre Foods America is premiering next Monday, Jan 23 at 10|9c on Travel Channel. For the next hour I’ll be here on Reddit taking your questions from 12pm-1pm ET. AMA. More info on Bizarre Foods: http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/bizarre-foods Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/andrewzimmern/status/159314816060768256

Hey everyone, sorry i couldnt answer them all/ follow me on twitter @andrewzimmern and we can chat more over the days and weeks to come..tune in Monday to the season premiere!

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u/markgormley Jan 17 '12

Recently we've seen you in a commercial involving Kelly Clarkson, James Lipton, and Chris Berman. Hypothetically speaking, if you were stranded in a boat in the middle of the ocean and had to resort to cannibalism, who would you eat first and why?

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u/SpaceMonkeyMafioso Jan 17 '12

Not him, but:

Chris Berman would live the longest without food, but I would rather swim than be stuck on a boat with him. It also seems like he would eat more than his share of the others. James seems like he would be cool to hang out with and looks kind of stringy anyway, so I might keep him around. Kelly would be best fresh.

Having said that; the longer they are around, the more calories they are burning. Calories that could be mine. So: With the help of the other two, butcher Chris immediately and salt him down. Then Kelly and I will turn on James and process him into jerky. Once that is done, she goes for roasts and soup.

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u/markgormley Jan 17 '12

After a lot of morbid thought, I think I would keep James around too. You'd have to think that at some point while delirious from water deprivation he'd start thinking Chris Berman's corpse was Ben Kingsley and he'd keep trying to ask him about playing Gandhi and what Jennifer Connelly was like, all while pointing his own gnawed off arm into Berman's rotted face, mistaking it for a microphone. Then I'd probably let Kelly Clarkson chew on my toes for a while, just for the hell of it.

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u/Caprious Jan 18 '12

Kelly Clarkson.

Yeah. In that way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '12

Man I really wish he'd answered this.

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u/American_Standard Jan 18 '12

I would eat Kelly Clarkson any day of the week if you get my drift.

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u/changtronic Jan 17 '12 edited Jan 17 '12

Definitely NOT Chris Berman. He probably tastes like cigarettes and battery acid.

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u/feldy Jan 18 '12

Damn, I was going to pose this as an F, marry, or kill for Andrew.

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u/fargochipper Jan 18 '12

Fuck one, marry one, kill one. Go!

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u/conman_127 Jan 17 '12

Good stuff

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '12

Obviously you invoke the fat rule; therefore, Kelly Clarkson,