as an aspiring chef, im getting a kick out of these...wait...bewbs?

I gotta say that's one bad ass chef. I'm seeing it in my head to the Team America theme. DA DA-DA! Badoom/chik, badoom/chic DA DA_DA!

If it were someone else, it would potentially be cool.

As the article amply illustrates, though, Gordon Ramsey is a grade-A dick.

What the fark is a 6-foot crab? Isn't that sort of like grabbing Alien?

FTA: It is a rare moment of chagrin for the chef who delights in other people's discomfort.

Maybe he can be cured?

Ah, reminds me of the good old days.

I worked in a gas station once, and one of the regulars came in and gave me a deer shoulder once. Stabbed it and put garlic, rosemary and thyme in the cuts, Oven bag, a bottle or two of pear cider, 300 degrees, wait till it's done, delicious.

Why do I get an image of caveman walking through the place?

Lamb chops, eh? Good thing no one ordered steak. Although it would have been funny to watch him drag a dead horse through the restaurant.

/dnrtfa

Approves

Many people don't want to think about where their food comes from.

No one would flinch around here if that happened, unless it was out of season.

BTW, 6ft crab probably means Alaskan King Crab.

Yes, excuse me. When you are done with that thing, please send a rare chunk of its ass to my table with a morrel demi glace and whatever you think would go well with it. Thanks. I'll drink your bourbon until it shows up.

Why do I get an image of caveman walking through the place?



Hey, watch it!

Didn't Errol Flynn do that in an old movie?

*Grabs the chef as he walks by*

If that's for tomorrow, I'm leaving now.

I intend to! But not until it's cooked!

"Firt yu kill de deer, den ya cut it head off."

At least its fresh...hopefully.

Oh it was Gordon farking Ramsey. Well no surprises there then. The guy rocks.

That's some pretty poor mise en place.

I intend to! But not until it's cooked!

Excellent Trek reference. I bow in your direction.

And allow me to follow that up with a Mel Brooks reference.
"King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!"

/a toll is a toll and a roll is a roll

Hope he used a freakin' 12-gauge.

That sure is a scrawny deer

I'm not sure when this happened, but when did eating bizarre and/or spoiled food become a test of manliness?

Seems more like a test of abject stupidity.

Ah.. right, I get it now.

He has also been branded sexist for claiming "women can't cook".

That doesn't include sandwiches, right?

"Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water - BAM. A farkin' bullet rips off part of your head."

From the article:
As he unveils the plate, Ramsay challenges May: "This is basically rotten shark. You have to eat it without being sick - that is the true definition of a proper man."

By this test I think you'd have to have some sort of congenital tongue defect to be a proper man.

My wife and I got some shark steaks that were a little past their prime once. Tasted like tuna in a week-old urine marinade.

As he unveils the plate, Ramsay challenges May: "This is basically rotten shark. You have to eat it without being sick - that is the true definition of a proper STUPID man."

Well, if you're going to eat meat, you should be comfortable with where it comes from.

/I'm very comfortable.
//Yum

I loves me some Gordon Ramsey... I mean, fresh meat... I mean, food. Yeah, that's it. I love fresh food. Uh-huh.

I'm not surprised he hurled after eating the rotten shark. During an episode of Kitchen Nightmares he hurled after nibbling a bit of out-dated snails or something, after telling the second-rate in-house chef that they smelled funny. Why he tasted them, I don't know. His balls are bigger than his brain sometimes.

My thinking is that truly great chefs have very sensitive senses, which is what puts them above the average. Regardless of what he says or drags through his restaurants, I'll eat whatever he cooks any day. Hands down it'll be better than any slop I can toss on the table, and I'm a fair cook myself.

Just knock the horns off, wipe his butt, and trot him through a warm kitchen.

Rare.

Yes, people who eat things are like a caveman.

Where I live this would not be out of place.

Analgesic 2007-05-04 10:47:38 AM
"Good thing no one ordered steak. Although it would have been funny to watch him drag a dead horse through the restaurant."


I thought our steaks come from cows. Although I am sure one could get horse steaks. Who eats that, though? Maybe it's a cultural thing in other parts of the world. Maybe in India where they don't eat cow? I'll shut up now so no one thinks I'm beating a dead horse.

Unless it was taken out of season, nobody here would flinch. mnmnm deer jerky = tasty.

/small town Iowa

Try China some time.

Live animals in cages outside - you pick what you want to eat.

I was in Beijing, getting ready to order the Beijing duck, when the chef came walking through the restaurant with a couple of sticks with half a dozen ducks strung on it.

Kinda... well, surprising, I guess is the word.

Sugarloafer
I think the french do. A friend went to Paris once and she's quite the horse lover and saw a shop with a nice painted horse sign outside and thought "Nice, riding equipment store". But it wasn't :)

And I saw some prime horse fillets pass by when I worked as a forklift driver in a slaughterhouse here in Sweden (packed in vacuum bags like ox fillets). Asked on of the guys who said it was nice with a slight nutlike flavour to it. I'd eat it (couldn't nab one since I only saw a couple over the 3 months I was there).

Sugarloafer
Heh. Apparently I have eaten horse meat. We have sammich meat that's called "Hamburgermeat" which is basically smoked horse meat most of the time. Didn't actually know that... but not that it bothers me :) It's yummy.

Pic of said meat on a sammich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Horsemeatsandwich.jpg

/damn
//now I'm hungry
///I could eat a horse
////well at least a part of it on a sammich

Gordon Ramsay is not as terrible as he might want you to think.

Sugarloafer

Sorry, I was making a dual snide remark (I don't think it properly counts as a double entendre). First that the chef used substandard cuts (or in this case, the wrong damn animal) for his premium meats. And second, that most people who eat meat are uncomfortable seeing exactly where it comes from.

So, no hidden cultural differences. Just a missing /snark slashie I guess.

I like to know where my food comes from so I would have no problem with this. Just last month I went to a farm and whacked 11 lambs. The BBQ season will be great this year!