# Cooks who Kill! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350 "2015-09-15T13:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/1 "2015-09-15T13:00:59Z")
Here’s the challenge: find references to characters in TV shows and movies that are professional or noted amateur cooks - who are also killers. Good guys or bad guys, doesn’t matter. For example: in _Under Siege_, Steven Segal plays a navy cook … a former S.E.A.L. … who kills a whole wack of terrorists. Any other examples of chefs who dish out death as well as hors d’oeuvres? Edit: answers are for a little project for a chef who is a friend of mine … ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/2 "2015-09-15T13:13:41Z")
Would _Sweeney Todd_ count? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/3 "2015-09-15T13:13:58Z")
Silence of the Lambs ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/4 "2015-09-15T13:16:27Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Would _Sweeney Todd_ count? Well, Mrs. Lovett is the cook … I guess she counts. Did she actually kill anyone, though? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/5 "2015-09-15T13:18:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Silence of the Lambs … with fava beans and a nice Chianti. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/6 "2015-09-15T13:25:22Z")
He didn’t succeed, but Chef Louis (Reme Auberjonois) in **The Little Mermaid** clearly had crustaceacidal intent. It’s no excuse that his job is killing sealife. Steven Segall operated the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/7 "2015-09-15T13:41:25Z")
There was an episode of Archer where the celebrity chef was in the pay of the Russians and poisoned someone that Isis had been paid to protect. Actually, now that I think of it, there were two episodes where the cook killed someone Isis was protecting/trying to impress. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/8 "2015-09-15T14:00:01Z")
Not exactly relevant, but mention must be made of the book _Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe_ (one of the earliest of the mystery-with-interspersed-recipes) by Nan and Ivan Lyons, and the movie made from it **Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?** \* from 1978. It turns out that no murderous chefs were involved (I won’t say who the actual murderer(s) was(were)), but certainly they came under suspicion. I should also mention the episode of Alfred Hitchcock, “Lamb to the Slaughter”, based on the Roald Dahl short story, in which there definitely IS a chef with murderous intent (and action). Notably, in both these examples, the rotund Robert Morley appears to be the victim. - I notice that the film title contains a question mark. What about all those people who claimed that there was some sort of curse of titles with question marks, which prevented _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ from having one? On the other hand, maybe if they’d left it off, _Great Chefs_ would’ve had better box office. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/9 "2015-09-15T14:03:11Z")
Long John Silver was sea-cook on two ships. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/10 "2015-09-15T14:23:08Z")
How about Jeffrey Dahmer? Would he count? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/11 "2015-09-15T14:38:33Z")
The cook’s assistant in _The Hunt for Red October._ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/12 "2015-09-15T14:46:38Z")
Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore: Chefs do that! ---
**Author:** ![PlumBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@PlumBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlumBob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/13 "2015-09-15T14:46:53Z")
Lunch Lady in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. > **[Unidentified lunch lady](https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Unidentified_lunch_lady)** > > “Vermin! You're all vermin. You come in here and you eat, and you eat. Filth!” ―Lunch lady\[src\] An unidentified woman worked as a lunch lady at Sunnydale High School. In 1999, the lunch lady attempted to kill the student body by putting rat poison in... ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/14 "2015-09-15T15:16:07Z")
Typhoid Mary? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/15 "2015-09-15T15:29:11Z")
Paul and Marie Bland are serial killers in _Eating Raoul._ He’s a wine dealer and she’s a nurse, but they are amateur cooks who plan to open a restaurant (which they eventually do). Gus Fring in _Breaking Bad_ prides himself as an amateur chef, especially of Chilean seafood soup. Paulie in _Goodfellas_ and Clemenza in _The Godfather_ give cooking tips while preparing spaghetti sauce for their fellow gangsters. In _Fried Green Tomatoes_, the killer turns out to be Sipsey, the cook/ ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/16 "2015-09-15T15:35:58Z")
The chef who gave Homer Simpson a poisoned eclair? Lisa: Dad, don’t eat that! It’s poisoned! Homer: Eh, I’ve had a good life. _(prepares to bite into it)_ Lisa _(desperately)_: Um, ah… It’s LOW FAT! Homer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! _(throws eclair. Explosion follows.)_ Chief Wiggum: Boy, it’s lucky that thing landed in this smoking crater over here! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/17 "2015-09-15T15:37:54Z")
Awesome killer cooks. 🙂 Keep 'em comming! I thought of a somewhat obscure one: in one of the _Sharpe_ episodes, there is a French cook who leads a group of murderous deserters (not “dessert-ers” :D). He’s shown killing a soldier at the start of the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/18 "2015-09-15T15:46:04Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Well, Mrs. Lovett is the cook … I guess she counts. Did she actually kill anyone, though? 😃 If Mrs. Lovett counts, then you would have to include Richard Boarst, the cook in _The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover_ as an accessory to murder. Maybe you want a subcategory of cooks who cook people, even if they didn’t murder them themselves? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/19 "2015-09-15T15:53:40Z")
On the Simpsons _Treehouse of Horror V_, Lunchlady Doris together with the other staff of Springfield Elementary kill and cook students to serve them in the cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/20 "2015-09-15T15:57:19Z")
There’s the old _Eating Raoul_. Maybe not really a professional chef, IIRC, but close enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350.md?page=2)