Do not mess with someone's soaps: after ABC announced it was adding a food-themed talk show co-hosted by Mario Batali called The Chew and canceling long-running soaps All My Children and One Life to Live this fall, soap fans have not been too happy.
In fact, after a video of him discussing the soap cancellations popped up on TMZ, the Batali-hate has turned into an old fashioned commenter shitstorm, both on the soap boards as well as here on Eater.
Despite the fact that Batali denied that The Chew would be any better than the canceled shows and said that "I certainly don't want anyone out of a job," soap fans are skinning him alive in the comments and asking him to abandon the project so their shows can survive. Some of them are even suggesting a boycott of ABC! Here now, the top ten craziest comments:
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