Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern has been dropped from his prime time slot after making racial and culturally insensitive remarks where he asserted that Midwest Chinese food was “horseshit.”

The Discovery, Inc. network has pushed both ‘Bizarre Foods’ and ‘The Zimmern List’ to desolate Saturday morning slots.

Filming has also been stopped for both shows and is not expected to continue.

While on Fast Company promoting his new Midwestern Chinese restaurant chain, Little Cricket, the James Beard Award-winning chef threw jabs at Chinese-American restaurateurs.

While discussing the upcoming opening of Lucky Cricket, Zimmern said he wanted the Chinese restaurant at a mall in a Minnesota suburb to introduce Midwesterners to ‘hot chili oil, introduce them to a hand-cut noodle, and introduce them to a real roast duck’.

“I think I’m saving the souls of all the people from having to dine at these horseshit restaurants masquerading as Chinese food that are in the Midwest,” he said, adding that his goal is to open 200 locations across middle America.

At another point in the interview he said: ‘Someone else is going to be the next P.F. Chang’s, and I don’t want them to blow it. And is it up to me to do it? I certainly think I’m in the conversation.

“And just because I’m not Chinese, I leave that to the rest of the world to judge.”

The remarks received widespread backlash from the culinary community, who accused the chef of being culturally insensitive.

Ruth Tam writing in the Washington Post said, “He has the noble cause of ‘saving’ white people from eating bad Chinese food. When Chinese people make Americanized Chinese food for white people, Zimmern calls it ‘horses - - t.’ But when he does it, it’s ‘unique.’ ”

Eater also fumed, “Zimmern simultaneously denigrates Philip Chiang and elevates himself to the position of being the person capable of opening middle America’s eyes to the myriad regional cuisines of a vast, diverse culture.”

Eating humble pie, Zimmern responded, “I am completely responsible for what I said and I want to apologize to anyone who was offended.”

“The upset that is felt in the Chinese American community is reasonable, legitimate and understandable, and I regret that I have been the one to cause it,” he continued. “That is the very last thing I would ever want to do.”

A Travel Channel rep insisted Zimmern wasn’t given the chop because of his insensitive comments, but admitted his remaining episodes have been relegated, saying, “The shows, along with other food content on Travel, will no longer air on prime time, but on Saturday mornings in rotation. This decision came before Andrew’s comments were made.”

It is believed Zimmern’s shows on the Cooking Channel and the Food Network will continue as scheduled.