Guy Fieri Actually Had a Pretty Classy Clap-Back for Anthony Bourdain

He also admitted Donkey Sauce is literally just aioli.

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Aioli is a mayo-like Mediterranean sauce made from garlic and olive oil. Donkey Sauce is an aioli-like sauce made from garlic and mayonnaise, among other ingredients. So, Donkey Sauce is aioli, but with a snazzier name. Its creator, the blonde-tipped Guy Fieri of Guy Fieri fame, even agrees, finally. Glad we're all on the same page.

Fieri owned up to the categorization of Donkey Sauce in a new interview with Thrillist:

If we called it aioli, does that make it sexier? It's aioli. This goes back to that exact comment that I said in the beginning: it's about moderation. I called it Donkey Sauce because you have to make fun of it. It's a quintessential ingredient in so many aspects of food, yet probably not the most beneficial except for flavor, probably the least beneficial, but it does have its place.

Donkey Sauce was named Donkey Sauce because, long story short, Fieri once said, "You have to put sauce on the burgers or you're a jackass," and another chef with a "thick accent" asked what a jackass was. A jackass is a donkey, and the sauce was branded as such, according to Eater. Now, with this new rebranding, Donkey Sauce is the new and improved "sexier" aioli.

And, according to Fieri's interview, there's nothing you can really say to criticize it, or him. Thrillist asked Fieri about The New York Times and Anthony Bourdain, who have been known to drag Fieri's name through the mud on multiple occasions—Bourdain once blamed Fieri for turning Times Square into the "Ed Hardy district" by opening Guy's American Bar and Kitchen there. Fieri replied:

Everybody has an opinion. I would be the last person to go around and tell people not to have an opinion. I'm not super flamboyant about expressing mine about other people. Ya know? ... You gotta know me to be able to tell me what you think I should be doing, because if you get thrown off by the fact that I have bleach-blonde hair and tattoos, and listen to rock and roll, gettin' Sammy Hagar, and that's where your premise is going to come from, then you really don't know me well enough to tell me to do anything or really have a position that you should be making an opinion about me.

Who looks like a jackass now?

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