Top Chef: quite highbrow
Ingredients are wordy
Makes for hard haiku

Quickfire challenge:
Bring sexy back to salads
45 minutes

Long time for salad
Season 2’s Sam is guest judge
HE brings sexy back

No hot messes here
Their salads make me hungry
Distracted by Sam

Andrew: Thai mango
Dale goes Asian – what a stretch!
Richard : Fresh and Clean

Sam is quite reserved
(Have I mentioned his sexy?)
Gives little feedback

Spike: Sensual beef
Stephanie’s pear salad lacks
Antonia: poached egg

Sam’s ready to rule
Dislikes: Stephanie, Richard
Lisa’s is the worst

Now for his top picks
Dale, Antonia’s oozy egg
Spike’s sexy beef wins

No immunity;
Spike wins challenge advantage
Will he use it well?

Fast food parades out
The typical lunch of cops
My arteries clog

The challenge: healthy,
Filling boxed lunch for cadets
Protein, grain, veg, fruit

Spike’s won a great coup!
10 more minutes and control
Can block others’ choice

Spike: evil bastard!
Chicken, ‘maters, bread, lettuce
Cock blocked for the rest

His choice is a wrench
Results in creative picks
Bison, barley, raw

Kitchen is humming
Spike gloats, displays his “prizes”
Looks of death abound

10 minutes remain!
Lisa’s burner is on high
Lisa cries chef foul!

“My rice! Sabotage!”
Dale, “Dumb bitch, did it yourself”
No sympathy here

Off to serve cadets
Boxes must have instructions
Cadets microwave

Really good dishes!
Antonia does curry beef
Dale goes Asian – YAWN.

Andrew goes too far
From fast food to raw food? Hm.
Tiny portion too

Creativity
Has paid off. Steph’s barley soup
Gets mad rave reviews

Richard’s creative
Who doesn’t like burritos?
Adds a healthy twist

Spike will not make friends
Use of his choices is sad
Looks like afterthought

Andrew’s dish is flawed
Required grain is missing!
Lost his instructions

To Judges’ table
Who is on the chopping block?
Sam is still sexy.

The two favorites:
Healthy, tasty, and filling
Stephanie and Dale

Dale’s victorious
He certainly knows Asian
“I’ve five wins,” he preens

Onto the worst now
Raw, bland, boring, poorly cooked
Andrew, Spike, Lisa

Tweak’s belligerent
“I elevated the task!”
“Raw food is the best!”

Lisa can’t take the heat
“Andrew, didn’t use a grain!”
Judges know, you rat.

Tweak freaks out, of course
“You’ve thrown me under the bus”
L: just play by rules

L seems to forget
The time she and Antonia
Did just the same thing

Spike spurts denials
I thought out my dish, played fair
“Oh, it was bad, too?”

Andrew, pack your knives
No culinary boner
We will miss you, kid.

Next time on Top Chef
Restaurant wars are back! Yes!
Not the same without.