Zesty Gourmand

### Goals

Make sure that the restaurants would be remained in meeting her standards, including shutting down restaurants that refuse to conform to her said standards (failed).

### Crimes

Slander
Fraud
Corruption
Abuse of Power
Blackmailing

### Type of PP

Fraudulent Food Critic

Zesty Gourmand is a one-shot antagonist appearing in the Season 6 episode *Spice Up Your Life* and is a famed food critic known for the so-called three hoof rating system, which the restaurants in Canterlot conform to to entice the upper class ponies into going to the restaurants because they refuse to go to restaurants that have been unrated or have low ratings.

She is voiced by Fiona Hogan.

## What Makes Her Pathetic?

* For starters, is not even a real food critic with it being unknown how she got into her high influential position but still strictly mandates the following of her three hoof rating system otherwise restaurants will be closed, limiting competition to only competing against identical businesses that serve the same standardized food.
* The food is extremely bland and all looks the same, with extremely small portion sizes with her making people believe that the only restaurants worthy of visiting are the ones with three hooves as they are the "best of the best" despite the aforementioned abysmal food, and will shut down any restaurant that is non-acquiescent to the three hoof rating system that requires the cuisine, decor, and presentation to all be the same.
* Outright refuses to actually try the food she is judging, proving how much of a hypocritical bigot she is as she is willing to criticize others for taste testing while she never tries the food herself, meaning she is a fraudulent and ostracizes any restaurant not identical to all the other restaurants even if they have good food, also proving how close-minded she is.
* Her defeat is played for complete satisfaction, as not only are restaurant proprietors now embracing being idiosyncratic, they no longer care about the three hoof rating system, abolishing their meekness they once had and damaging her reputation, diminishing the once illiberal authority she had.

## What Makes Her a Pinhead?

* Somehow was able to convince the ponies that she was a legitimately excellent food critic despite the food being bland and being small in portion size, and the only reason she is successful until the end of the episode is because of how conformist the upper class ponies are, wanting to go to "trendy" restaurants and refusing to eat anywhere else, plus having the authority to cause non-conformist restaurants to close down.
* Damages her reputation twice by not actually trying the food at both times she is in The Tasty Treat restaurant, first by not trying the curry that accidentally got spilled onto her face, instead denouncing the restaurant and angrily storming out, then by openly refusing in front of several other ponies to try the food in the popular restaurant "grand re-opening" and angrily storming out.
	+ The second one causes her reputation to begin diminishing as Pinkie Pie and Rarity convince several restaurant owners to make the food they want and choose the decorations they want to individualize their restaurants, causing restaurants to begin to no longer conform to the authoritarian three hoof rating system that squandered creativity.

## External Links

* Zesty Gourmand at the Hate Sink wiki
* Zesty Gourmand at the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic wiki