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Anyone else watching this :lol This is some good shit. One insult after another.

 

[belgurdo]

Even though the guy is supposed to be this top-shit European chef who has a billion followers and subordinates, I have a nagging suspicion that him telling everyone their food sucks will get old by episode three

 

[MIMIC]

This show got REALLY old, fast. All he did was curse out EVERYONE.

It's just so over-the-top. When he started to curse out and insult the CUSTOMERS, that was just a bit too much.

This show is like rabid-Simon Cowell meets "The Apprentice," with a cooking twist.

 

[Agent Dormer]

Horrible show, but I had such a good time watching it. I like watching the poor souls get torn to shreds.

 

[sprsk]

dewberry is going to be a star

 

[Joe]

it was pretty crazy how that bitch totally bent dewberry over and railed him in the ass.

when i saw the commercials i thought the chef was TRYING to be an asshole but he genuinely seems like an asshole.

 

[belgurdo]

it was pretty crazy how that bitch totally bent dewberry over and railed him in the ass.

when i saw the commercials i thought the chef was TRYING to be an asshole but he genuinely seems like an asshole.

I get the feeling that he is of those types of guys who worked really hard at first to get famous and successful, then after a while lost his work ethic and decided to start scaring people to stay that way

 

[sprsk]

it was pretty crazy how that bitch totally bent dewberry over and railed him in the ass.

when i saw the commercials i thought the chef was TRYING to be an asshole but he genuinely seems like an asshole.

yeah seriously, she must think shes all that cause he said a couple nice things, well i got news for her.

dewberry dont go down without a fight biatch!


apparently this guy is the real deal

Great stuff, a little overproduced maybe, but that was vintage Ramsay.

I've seen three previous TV shows he's been in, Boiling Point, Beyond Boiling Point and Kitchen Nightmares.

Boiling Point and Beyond Boiling Point were cinema verite style documentaries that followed Ramsay as he tryed to win his third Michelin star, the top distinction for a chef in Europe. Since then he's done so, and several of the other restaurants he owns, which he rewards his top chefs with full partnerships in, also have won their first stars.

When he left the restaurant he was working at in 1998, the ENTIRE staff of the restaurant walked out with him, to join him at his first self-owned restaurant. So you can see he does earn respect, and rewards those who live up to his standards. He just doesn't have much time for anyone who doesn't.

Those who have seen/read A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain will know he considers the meal he had at Gordon Ramsay one of the best he's ever had.

This link on the website for Kitchen Nightmare's has some more detail on who he is, and why he is considered the top chef in Britain, and one of the top few best in the world.
http://www.channel4.com/life/micros...don_ramsay.html

This maybe sounds like I'm trying to defend him, I'm not really, I fully understand anyone who considers him a complete bastard. I think the show tonight didn't do quite as good a job as it could have, explaining who he is and what he's done.

Edit: Wow, just watched an interview with him and the co-host of Fox News in Boston. How clueless was she. They had interjected comments of her before asking each question saying stuff like 'next I asked Gordon about British cuisine and it's reputation, you won't believe what he has to say about that', then she asks the question, talking about fish and chips and so on, and he responds, extremely reasonably, saying something like 'well I don't think you can judge any country's food on stuff like that, not Britain or America or even France'.

She started with 'my first mistake was asking him about the meal I had, which wasn't very good, that put me straight on his bad side!' And he responds, simply saying the restaurant is a work in progress. He was honest that he hadn't been to Boston or heard of some of the chefs from there (like Todd English), all he said was if he was eating there, he wouldn't be eating the pizza as she suggested.

I've seen interviews where he's simply walked out, or chewed out the interviewer, there wasn't any hint of that here, and I'm simply baffled as to what he said that gave her the impression he actually didn't like her or took offense to her questioning as she claimed.

 

[quest]

The show is way over the top and I loved it. When he started to insult some customers it made me smile. When he insulted the other cooks it made me laugh. I am sure the show will get old fast but damn tonight was classic one liner after one liner. From what I can tell the guy is no phoney he is truely an asshole.

 

[LakeEarth]

Am I crazy for wanting to see this show later on when only the contestents that can cook are the only ones left? I wanna see some interesting cooking shit, not some guy yelling at people who can't.

 

[pj]

I think it's funny that he says you need good service to have a good restaurant.. and then he calls customers bimbos......

 

[WasabiKing]

It's just so over-the-top. When he started to curse out and insult the CUSTOMERS, that was just a bit too much.

All my friends who are chefs and wait staff called this bullshit from the promos. No one acts that way, cause they would never have a staff to work for them. This is just for TV.

Same for the other show with Rocco DiSpirito

 

[DarthWoo]

Anyone still watching this? Poor fat guy just got booted.

 

[Mupepe]

Hell yeah I'm still watching it, I hate Elsie. That bitch has buck teeth and is physically unable to close her big cunt mouth. I wish that slut Jessica would shut the hell up too, she sucks horribly in the kitchen and is an evil whore. Also, Jimmy was cool, he took Michael in the helicopter even after he called him a fat fuck a million times. He should not have been booted. Ralph is an old asshole who thinks he knows everything and he's a backstabber, die old man... die. God I'm glad someone bumped this thread.

 

[SolidSnakex]

I thought Jessica got what she deserved. Play the damn game right. You aren't there to help other people win you're there to win on your own. If you've got a chance to take out your biggest competition then do it because if they get the chance your ass is gone too.

 

[Mupepe]

I thought Jessica got what she deserved. Play the damn game right. You aren't there to help other people win you're there to win on your own. If you've got a chance to take out your biggest competition then do it because if they get the chance your ass is gone too.

But that doesn't mean I can't hate the slut right?? God how I hate that bitch.

 

[SolidSnakex]

I don't like her either because she didn't take the side that she should've. She had Ralph hanging them all out to dry by saying the dish was all of their decision even though every dish that they made was Ralphs idea. She should've sided with Andrew. Keep him around because he doesn't really know how to cook all that well and would be someone easy ot beat.

 

[Mupepe]

Exactly! I just hate Ralph because he didn't take responsibility and thinks he knows everything. I hate that old man. But come on, don't you hate Elsie too? And I'm sure Michael fucked with her food. hahaha, he hid it in the fucking fridge. And in the preview for next week, she was all crying "no one would even talk to me" and then she left the little recording place crying. god i hope that bitch gets kicked next. she thinks she's hot shit but she eats anus juice.

 

[shantyman]

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a great, great show. If you watch that then you'll like him.

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a great, great show. If you watch that then you'll like him.

Yes it is, the first Hells Kitchen with Ramsay in the UK was very good as well - the one with the D list celebrities.

 

[OmniGamer]

Just saw it for the first time last night...already hate Ralph. Don't like Jessica either. The guy that was up against Ralph should have brought up the fact that when Chef asked them who's idea was the Halibutt, and Ralph didn't step forward and take the responsibility...he also should have done a better job at saying how he and Jessica were mentioning menu ideas and Ralph just automatically dismissed them. He should have said to Chef the exact same things he was saying to the others.

I haven't seen Elsie enough to dislike her...she didn't bother me. I don't know why Jimmy took Michael given the way he just insults him all the time. And what was up with him just tossing the Lobster away and then not realizing that's what he did?

Ralph sucks and I hate Jessica because she did the same crap that all naive little saps in reality shows do...they think that loyalty on these shows is a two-way street. It sure as hell isn't! You're good deed today does not gurantee that you'll get the same treatment from that person tomorrow. Play the damn game!

 

[goodcow]

Haven't seen it yet, but episode three is in my Usenet queue right now.

 

[shantyman]

All my friends who are chefs and wait staff called this bullshit from the promos. No one acts that way, cause they would never have a staff to work for them. This is just for TV.

Same for the other show with Rocco DiSpirito

My only experience is in an Olive Garden (obviously not a "real" restaurant), and I can tell you it IS like that in a kitchen. Nerves are constantly frayed, and people basically scream at each other. Yelling at the customers is not real, but everything else seemed on key to me.

 

[DarthWoo]

So who watched the finale? Pretty good stuff, and I guess out of the two, I'm glad the one who won did win. Poor Jean Pierre though, always getting called the wrong name.

 

[Particle Physicist]

All my friends who are chefs and wait staff called this bullshit from the promos. No one acts that way, cause they would never have a staff to work for them. This is just for TV.

Same for the other show with Rocco DiSpirito

yeah. but this chef is known for being an asshole in the kitchen.

 

[Shouta]

So who watched the finale? Pretty good stuff, and I guess out of the two, I'm glad the one who won did win. Poor Jean Pierre though, always getting called the wrong name.

:lol I hope you intended that.

 

[Ristamar]

I never watched any of Hell's Kitchen save for the last two episodes that aired back-to-back. It was strangely fascinating. Michael needs to ditch the mullet, though.

 

[TheTurtleTitan]

It was funny how the FOX promo said, "Competition goes to an angry turn" and showed Michael saying "piss off!" to Ralph. But he wasn't yelling at him, just practicing his aggressiveness. :lol

 

[teruterubozu]

I can't believe after all that Michael decided to become Ramsey's bitch in London instead of having his own restaurant. What a tool. I'm sure that Ralph guy was like WTF???

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I can't believe after all that Michael decided to become Ramsey's bitch in London instead of having his own restaurant. What a tool. I'm sure that Ralph guy was like WTF???

if he tried to open his own restaurant it probably would have folded in 6 months anyway. Better to take the steady, more secure job with that asshole Ramsey in London, then try his own thing later.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

Just in case people didn't know, Ramsey and his reputation for being a hardass has been pretty prominent in the UK for many years. He really does run his restaurants like that, and it isn't put on for the cameras. He was acting like that long before Hell's Kitchen came along.

But Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares is a much more interesting program, imo. The format basically is that he goes to a failing restaurant and tries to turn it around. And say what you will about him, but he knows his stuff, and for as long as the people follow his advice they seem to do well.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I can't believe after all that Michael decided to become Ramsey's bitch in London instead of having his own restaurant. What a tool. I'm sure that Ralph guy was like WTF???

um. that was actually a very smart decision. he basically 1) gets steady job 2) gets paid pretty well (most likely) 3) gains experience and reputation from one of today's leading chefs.

 

[Outlaw Pro Mod]

I got hooked on this show. Ramsey owns me.

"What's this? <imitates Jessica>......GET BACK TO YOUR SECTION!"