The one hundred and fiftieth TV show: #800 Man v. Food

The concept of Man v. Food can be described as the Travel Channel doing a food show - host Adam Richman travels around the US and in each city visits a couple of restaurants and, at the end of the episode, takes part in a food challenge. Usually it's eating a lot of food (17 hot dogs in an hour, a truly pizza and so on), but in others it comes down to eating the spiciest meals. It's a good concept, not to be watched when you're hungry because this will make it worse. This is especially the case in the main part of the episode, when you get a bunch of cuisines on show and see how these are made. The challenge at the end of the episode can be interesting for a bit, but feels like it stretches out a bit too far and at times just gets gross. The food still looks good, but you ask yourself what the point is - why eat this much food when it just makes you sick.

Still, weird intermissions aside, it's a nice, simple food show mostly focused on common food - sort of American, in that it needs to have made it over there. It's a perfect show to have on during dinner, as long as they don't go too far on the gross side, which is the risk.