"Crazy" Amy Bouzaglo of Amy's Baking Company

We were there with front-row seats when all the drama began back in 2010. Since that time, when a local business owner totally flipped her shit over a negative Yelp review, the Amy's Baking Company drama has combusted and set off a national media firestorm.

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- Amy's Baking Company - A History of Kitchen Nightmares

And as with all human train wrecks that garner such large-scale attention, people have taken to the Internet to put their own spin on things. So now we present: seven Amy's Baking Company parodies in various social media and multimedia forms -- and unless you're allowed to drop f-bombs and make death threats at your place of employment, this is definitely not suitable for work.

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JK Grence

Just say no.

Part of writing this column, and of bartending, is keeping abreast of booze trends. One would have to live under a rock to not know that flavored vodka is massively popular. Take a look at almost any back bar in town, and there's a wide array of flavors from classic (vanilla, citron, orange) to creative (passion fruit, cucumber, huckleberry) to "Are you fucking kidding?!" (PB&J, glazed donuts, Swedish Fish). Who the hell comes up with these? Do they start focus groups by getting everyone stoned out of their minds?

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Pardon me, I'm getting a little tangential. This week, my booze screed covers what I believe to be one of the most insidious marketing ploys I've seen in a long time: Reduced calorie vodka. French brand Voli was the first on the scene a couple of years ago, but they barely made a splash. Now, spirits giants Diageo and Beam both have energized their marketing juggernauts.

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Heather Hoch

There's a lot of options to spice up your fridge selection at Ranch Market.

The Spot: Ranch Market, Open daily from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m.

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Pizzeria Bianco and Cibo may be downtown's mainstays for top-notch pies, but on Tuesday, May 28, another pizza powerhouse will enter the ring: Pomo Pizzeria.

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Known for its certified authentic Neapolitan pizza, Pomo is relocating from its former home at The Borgata of Scottsdale shopping center (set to be demolished this summer in lieu of a condominium complex) and moving downtown to 705 North First Street, in the former home of Sens Asian Tapas.

And Pomo's brand-new 6,500-pound oven? That's coming, too.

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Schnepf Farms' fresh peaches are ripe for the picking.

Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? We've got you covered. Check out what's on our plate.

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Schnepf Farms Peach Festival

Sweet, sticky peach juice will be running down a lot of chins this weekend at the Schnepf Farms Peach Festival in Queen Creek. There will be plenty of ripe peaches to pick from the orchards, with hay rides to get you there, and if you'd rather just enjoy the fruits of the farm, you can fill up on peachy pancakes, peach pies, and other treats at the Peach Sampling Pavilion. There will also be live music, craft vendors, and contests. The festival runs from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and admission is free for all ages. Can't make it this weekend? Schnepf Farms will host the hoopla again from Saturday, May 25, to Monday, May 27.

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It's the end of an era for Norma and Victor Guerrero.

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The husband-and-wife team behind Guerrero's Mexican Food, 2148 East Apache Boulevard in Tempe, have decided to retire and close the business they started in July 1982.

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Jeff Warren

After the BP oil spill in 2010, the company created a $300 million fund to promote Louisiana tourism. Now a chunk of that change will go to Bravo's Top Chef.

Remember when BP dumped a crapload of oil into the Gulf? Well in a giant statement of "sorry 'bout it," they created a sizeable fund to help boost tourism in the state of Louisiana over 18 months. And if you're curious where all that money went at least part of the answer is to Bravo's hit TV show Top Chef.

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Top: New Times archives, Bottom: Still from Kitchen Nightmares

Confused and angry Kitchen Nightmares viewers have been calling -- and yelling at -- the wrong folks.

This time, it's not as easy as ABC.

Imagine what it would be like to have a Phoenix business with an all-too-similar name to Amy's Baking Company, and you'll feel ABC Cake Decorating Supplies' pain.

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- Amy's Baking Company - A History of Kitchen Nightmares
- ABC Cake Decorating Supplies in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped and What We're Still Lusting Over

In fact, over the past few days, the owners and staff at ABC Cake have found themselves fielding angry phone calls meant for Amy and Sammy Bouzaglo.

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The Amy's Baking Company shit show is drawing out Phoenix's cast of characters like moths to the flame. It's probably only a matter of time until Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Russell Pearce get involved.

After the ABC Kitchen Nightmares disaster (or could it actually be a blessing in disguise?), Valley PR man Jason Rose announced via press release that his company will be overseeing a "grand re-opening" of the Scottsdale restaurant.

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And if that wasn't enough to make your head explode, the Reverend Jarrett Maupin will be emceeing the event, according to recent announcements Rose made on Twitter.

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Seemingly moments after most of us were making Amy Bouzaglo's cat impersonation ("Meow, meow, meow -- meow, meow!"), uttered on last Friday's season finale of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, the ringtone on our cell phones, the Internet decided to blow up, bonkers-style.

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Following the airing of the show, in which Ramsay, for the first time in the show's history, walked out of the restaurant after declaring Amy, who runs Amy's Baking Company with husband Samy, a "lost cause" in addition to revealing several other insights (Samy taking his servers tips being one of the biggest) the restaurant's Yelp, Facebook, and Twitter pages exploded with angry comments.

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