Casey Thompson Named Dallas' Second-Best Salad-Tosser

All for charity, of course, possums.

The American Institute of Wine & Food recently held its 16th annual fundraiser in Dallas, a Caesar salad competition. And it seems Casey's beaver boots were made for tossing, for she won second place in the competition, right behind another woman, Janice Provost.

As the bloggers at The Dallas Morning News put it, "it's nice to see women dominating the winners." Quite an image, ain't it? We certainly agree with the sentiment, though.

Congratulations, Casey, on winning for a good cause ("And Caesar salad doesn't have onions, right?" Miss XaXa helpfully observed.) After all, didn't that ole cholo Jesus once say something about rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's?

Deriven to Distraction: Another Casey Thompson Highlight?

That's the question we had, possums, when we happened upon Robert Wilonsky's blog for The Dallas Observer, specifically an entry entitled, "Casey's Recipe: Season with Teardrops."

Wilonsky expressed his displeasure with Casey for blowing the Latin Lunch challenge and with Tre Wilcox for doing the same with the barbecue challenge: "They live in Dallas, sure, but do they ever eat here?"

But Wilonsky reserved the majority of his snarking for Casey's lachrymose tendencies:

But what wasn't surprising was that once more, Casey made Lia's exit all about Casey. As she did last week, she turned someone else's misery into her own camera time. Instead of letting Lia tell the rest of the so-called cheftestants she'd been trimmed and discarded, Casey walked ahead of her: "The very talented and inspiring chef Lia is going home," she uttered between teardrops, and, as the missus pointed out, "Casey always makes it all about Casey." Because, yeah, while the sentiment was nice and all, all the other chefs get to say their own goodbyes without the need for a stand-in.

So imagine our curiosity when we saw the following comment left on Wilonsky's blog:

"Casey Thompson says:
You seem to know the whole situation! I didn't know that such pertinent information could be deriven from tears! Wow.
Posted at: July 21, 2007 11:53 AM"

Is that the real Casey? Was she joking? Was she being sarcastic? What derove her to it? Only her hairdresser knows for sure.

When It Comes to Highlights, Amuse Biatch Is More Goofus Than Gallant

Update--Here's an explanation from a commenter:

"I'm assuming the reference to Casey's bad highlights has to do with the fact that only the top and face-framing side’s [sic] of her hair are highlighted. Any good stylist (I consider myself one) would ask a client requesting highlights if they pull their hair back. If the answer is yes, highlights would be applied to the sides, and undersides near the back of the neck. This way, when the hair is pulled into a ponytail, you will continue to see the highlights. Not the light strip of streaks on top (known as skunk strip) Casey sports on the show. Hello, hair coloring 101."