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Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double Percy Foster dies in badger den (Original Post) Major Nikon Jun 2013 OP
I'm going to hell for this, but everybody dance! Systematic Chaos Jun 2013 #1
Badgers? We Don't Need No Stinking Badgers! Brother Buzz Jun 2013 #3
It took everything I had to exit that link. I was sucked in. :) nt Mojorabbit Jun 2013 #15
Where's a dachshund when you need one TrogL Jun 2013 #2
When it's time for you to go out of this world, you might as well go out with style nt MrScorpio Jun 2013 #4
it's like MadLibs Heddi Jun 2013 #5
^^THIS^^ krispos42 Jun 2013 #8
Gordon Ramsay is at the top of my never to do "bucket" list. A Simple Game Jun 2013 #6
It's okay. Chan790 Jun 2013 #7
I now sit here and wonder how I could have been so wrong about Mr. Ramsay. A Simple Game Jun 2013 #9
I haven't met him OriginalGeek Jun 2013 #10
The abuse and potty mouth stuff is his schtick. KurtNYC Jun 2013 #18
I don't expect Grandma's love to be the main ingredient when I eat in a restaurant A Simple Game Jun 2013 #20
This is what I've heard of him too, from the very little I've heard. nt. Locut0s Jun 2013 #16
Damn that makes me happy for the chef I worked under in culinary school the worst I got was a clip Arcanetrance Jun 2013 #19
Hmmm... Dr. Strange Jun 2013 #11
hmmm TZ Jun 2013 #12
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the badger was down. Dr. Strange Jun 2013 #13
This thread is too bizarre to comment on Tom Kitten Jun 2013 #14
When real life is stranger than the internet. You know you are in trouble... Locut0s Jun 2013 #17

Heddi

(18,312 posts)
5. it's like MadLibs
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 04:27 PM
Jun 2013

it's like mad libs:

Gordon Ramsey's __(adjective)__ __(type of movie)__ double, __(Name of person in room)__, dies in __(type of animal)__ __(room in house)__

11 words I never thought I'd see strung together in a sentence, much less in a newspaper headline....

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
6. Gordon Ramsay is at the top of my never to do "bucket" list.
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 10:12 PM
Jun 2013

A never to do "bucket" list is much larger than a to do "bucket" list, but much cheaper to complete.

I have sworn to never eat in one of his or any other restaurant he has set foot in. I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat something that mean spirited man has even been near. His secret ingredient most certainly isn't love. I can not imagine him as a supervisor over any kind of work crew. I have worked places that if he used the same attitude he uses on tv, he would have never walked out of alive. He seems a truly evil man and enjoys it.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
7. It's okay.
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 11:30 PM
Jun 2013

I've eaten in many of his restaurants and it was exquisite so I'll eat in the rest and eat for both of us.

Also, he's an incredible teaching chef...his main restaurants in London? The ones he spends significant kitchen time in? People have been known to pay to get on his kitchen staff and work for free for the opportunity to learn under him. Most of his kitchen staffers love him. Further, he's not that mean-spirited, I've met him, he's just foulmouthed. The chef I apprenticed under that flung a saute pan full of hot olive oil off the range top at the back of my head...he was mean-spirited. Ramsey just doesn't tolerate laziness, apathy, people who disrespect their customers by knowingly serving crap, people who don't want to get better and people that waste his time.

Oh...you don't want to eat anywhere I cook either then. For the most part, if you're looking to only eat places where there aren't chefs that are foulmouthed and temperamental and get on underlings for having a shitty lazy attitude, you're pretty much confined to places that don't have chefs....like McDonald's.

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
9. I now sit here and wonder how I could have been so wrong about Mr. Ramsay.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 12:34 PM
Jun 2013

Let me see: He goes on tv and acts like a jerk, Many of his makeovers go out of business, most of his "creations" seem to be barely edible, and according to someone on the internets, 'he's not that mean spirited, he's just foulmouthed."

The last one almost put me over the top, in laughter that is.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
10. I haven't met him
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 02:01 PM
Jun 2013

but everything I have ever read about him pretty much supports chan's assessment. They say he plays up the righteous indignation for TV because people watch that more. If the idiots he tries to help would stick to his plan they would probably not go under. What creations are you talking about? How can something you see on TV "seem" inedible? Mostly he just makes simple, fresh food with attention to detail and years of experience and flawless technique. It all "seems" delicious to me.

I'd happily pay good money to eat with him and/or food made by him.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
18. The abuse and potty mouth stuff is his schtick.
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 07:28 AM
Jun 2013

The restaurant make over thing is a fraud but so is most "reality TV." How come every restaurant on that show has a disgusting walk-in? Have they NEVER seen an episode of "Kitchen Nightmares" before they sign up? And they close like clams after the show is taped:

https://sites.google.com/site/ramsayskitchennightmares/

I have worked as a lead cook and line cook in open kitchens and they were cleaner and much more civil than the kitchens which cannot be seen into by the diners. Screaming at each other is bad management and like you, I don't want to eat food that has come out of that environment.

As TV goes it is entertaining but I question Ramsay's expertise when he tells owners that 'truffle oil should not be paired with garlic' (since when?) or that their interesting ethnic menu should be changed to his standard, boring set of:

- beef wellington
- scallops
- risotto, and
- cod

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
20. I don't expect Grandma's love to be the main ingredient when I eat in a restaurant
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:47 AM
Jun 2013

but I don't want to eat in a place that if the guy that spent 1/2 hour preparing the salad for the shift doesn't dare tell the boss he sneezed in it. I want him to be able to toss it out without fear for his job, not keep quiet and toss it into my salad bowl instead.

I am a person with no formal training but know that I haven't had a restaurant meal in the last ten years that I couldn't have done better myself. It's not that many of the preparers aren't capable, most probably are. It's that in a restaurant the need for speed often hinders the quality of the food, and causes an over reliance on salt which often ruins perfectly good food instead of using herbs and spices which often need time to infuse the food with their flavors.

I agree that Ramsay's food is boring and his bluster seems to be an attempt to make up for his boring food. And yes it is a reality show, which means that 99% of it is staged.

On edit:
I haven't worked in a restaurant but I have been a supervisor and a quality control manager. You do not get the best out of people by intimidating them. People will hide defects from you that are often caught by the customer when they work in fear. The customer may not say anything at the time, but will spread the word. Give a customer a good deal and they will tell one person, screw a customer and they will tell one hundred people. He knows nothing about business, and it seems very little about food. If that's not true, he's a fool for portraying that image on television.

Arcanetrance

(2,670 posts)
19. Damn that makes me happy for the chef I worked under in culinary school the worst I got was a clip
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 08:14 AM
Jun 2013

board thrown at me.

Dr. Strange

(25,898 posts)
11. Hmmm...
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 03:57 PM
Jun 2013
In a recent interview Foster spoke of his excitement about his growing career as Ramsay's double.


Apparently, he was giving up his previous occupation: drummer for Spinal Tap.

Dr. Strange

(25,898 posts)
13. I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the badger was down.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 04:28 PM
Jun 2013

I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a Gordon Ramsay porn dwarf double. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of his object.

Tom Kitten

(7,339 posts)
14. This thread is too bizarre to comment on
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 08:37 PM
Jun 2013

But I will anyway...

I'm sorry but Gordon Ramsay had a dwarf porn doppelganger? In other words he had a dopplegangerbanger? What was his doppelganger doing down in a den of badgers about to gassed? What about the diamond studded soda streamer gadget? Is it possible he had it with him and was trying to squirt soda at the badgers to try to scare them away before they got gassed?

And people just comment about how awful that swearing Gordon Ramsay is But no he is a great chef and if people just followed his advice they'd still be in business? WTF, man.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
17. When real life is stranger than the internet. You know you are in trouble...
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 04:56 AM
Jun 2013

These sentences:

A DWARF porn star who was Gordon Ramsay's double

Percy Foster's 107 centimetre (3'6&quot body was discovered in a badger's den

the 35-year-old was found, "deep in an underground chamber by Ministry of Agriculture experts ahead of a planned badger-gassing program."

"Porn lookalikes get more money than normal actors. Dwarf lookalikes are as rare as hen's teeth


My brain just stopped working...

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