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Next Food Network Star? El Chefe Hosts ‘Ghetto Pothead Cooking Show’

10/9/08 at 10:55 AM

In what is easily the most curious cooking show to hit YouTube since Gourmet Dude, and the most inspired combination of weed and food since Eat Under the Influence, a self-described “crazy NY Latino cook, El Chefe,” hosts “Pots & Pans,” a “ghetto pothead cooking show” in which he shows how to fight the munchies by making a highly improvised “Lucky Charm Burrito” that, yes, combines Lucky Charms, habichuelas, and “some lasagna from an ex-girlfriend.” (“I was cheating on her with her mother, and her sister, and one of her cousins,” El Chefe laments, “but it’s going to be good, I know, because her mother can cook.”) This guy is definitely the anti-Martha: “What I like about the Pillsbury is, for me, it has more chips and it’s cheaper, and right now I don’t have that much money. I used to sell weed but I can’t sell that anymore — I got like five kids to feed and it’s crazy.” He promises to talk about all that on another show — and we're looking forward to it!

POT & PANS - ghetto pothead cooking show (episode 1) [YouTube]

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