Food Network’s Alton Brown apologizes for joking about Holocaust reference – Deadline

Food web Good food and Iron Chef America Host Alton Brown today apologized for a series of references to the Twitter joke about concentration camps and the Holocaust.

Brown, 58, defended his comments at first, then admitted they were “in bad taste.”

In his tweet that sparked an uproar, Brown asked, “So when they move us to the camps do you think they’ll let us choose the state? I’m going to ask Kansas because the sky is so beautiful over there… on the wheat, ”he wrote.

He later added: “Do you think the camp uniforms will be striped, like those at Auschwitz, or that the checks will be in fashion?” He then said he had “no gold fillings” when a Twitter respondent said the uniform would depend on his personal wealth.

“I apologize for the offhand reference I made to the Holocaust in my tweet last night,” Brown wrote. “This was not a reference I made for a humorous effect, but rather to reflect how deeply I am afraid for our country. It was a very bad use of judgment and in bad taste.