# 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:** 3
**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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/41 "2015-09-15T22:14:56Z")
In the “What’s Cookin’” episode of _Tales From the Crypt_, the cook served Meat Loaf. Note the capital letters. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/42 "2015-09-15T22:28:49Z")
Basil: I fought in the Korean War, you know. I killed four men. Sybil: He was in the Catering Corps. He used to poison them. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/43 "2015-09-15T23:21:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Oooh, and _The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover_, where the Lover, IIRC, is baked and force-fed by the Wife to the Cook. > > Yeah, jolly film. > > Damn, ninja’d, though I’m not sure who did the cooking. But I do recall that the wife made her husband eat some. Shakespeare homage. Titus Andronicus bakes the two sons of Tamora and feeds the pie to their mother. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/44 "2015-09-15T23:58:48Z")
In Criminal Minds episode “Lucky,” a cannibalistic serial killer runs a restaurant and feeds one of his victims to the search party looking for his last victim, in the form of chili. In The Mentalist episode “Red Herring,” a sous chef kills her boss during a cooking competition by spiking her pepper with ricin. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/45 "2015-09-16T00:05:00Z")
Was the killer in last year’s, Adult Swim’s “Too Many Cooks” that exploded the internet actually a cook? I know he ate some people bits. I’d look it up and watch it again, but then I’d be singing that damn song for the next week. Actually, it might be too late to avoid that, even without looking it up. ---
**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 16, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/46 "2015-09-16T00:59:49Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > In The Long Kiss Goodnight, the main character displays knife skills in the kitchen that are clearly a chef’s knife skills. While the director probably intended to show, simply, that she was good with a knife, there’s not much similarity between knife fighting and dicing an onion. What if the onion was a terrorist organization? Many layers, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/47 "2015-09-16T04:32:21Z")
Just for fun, real life: [http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/a-fannie-bay-pizza-cook-threatens-co-worker-with-scary-topping/story-fnk0b1zt-1227527844606](http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/a-fannie-bay-pizza-cook-threatens-co-worker-with-scary-topping/story-fnk0b1zt-1227527844606) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/48 "2015-09-16T04:40:03Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Here’s the challenge: find references to characters in TV shows and movies . . . [Do webcomics count?](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080314#.VfjyipdezOQ) ---
**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 16, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/49 "2015-09-16T17:25:24Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Well she also cusses like someone who worked in a kitchen. 🙂 Nah, she’s all “Oh, phooey, I burned the darn muffins.” If she walks into a _bar_, though… ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/50 "2015-09-16T17:49:17Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > One of the finest Nero Wolfe mystery novels by Rex Stout is 1939’s TOO MANY COOKS. A famous chef is murdered by another famous chef at a famous chef contest. > > No human flesh is consumed, though. Wolfe would have said “Pfui” to that. Another Stout chef-murderer can be found in the short “Fourth of July Picnic.” ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/51 "2015-09-16T18:00:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Law and Order Criminal Intent episode “Death Roe”. Not only is the chef the killer, he has an incestuous relationship with his daughter, and ground up his victim and fed him to the employees. Excelllent performance from the late Chris Penn (brother of Shaun). Clint Eastwoods character in the Eiger Sanction John Waters film Desperate Living a queen is cooked and consumed by her subjects. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/52 "2015-09-16T18:22:35Z")
in [Mongol](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/?ref_=nv_sr_1), Genghis Khan’s father, a lesser Khan, was offered some food by some nameless tribesmen and obliged by custom to eat it. They were assassins and he died. Bruce Glover and Putter Smith were hit men posing as waiter/sommeliers in [Diamonds Are Forever](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066995/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73). Danny Aiello in [Léon: The Professional](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/?ref_=nv_sr_1) was a restauranteur and a banker for criminals. He also tried to kill Natalie Portman, so he counts. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/53 "2015-09-16T18:40:29Z")
Clemenza in The Godfather. Cooked up a mean spaghetti. The secret was sugar and wine, iirc. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/54 "2015-09-16T19:09:33Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Clemenza in The Godfather. Cooked up a mean spaghetti. The secret was sugar and wine, iirc. Garlic sliced so thin that it would disolve in the sauce. 🙂 ---
**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 16, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/55 "2015-09-16T19:25:13Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Garlic sliced so thin that it would disolve in the sauce. 🙂 [Ray Liotta as Henry Hill] He used a razor blade to cut it so thin that it practically _liquefied_ in the pan.[/RLaHH] ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/56 "2015-09-16T20:47:49Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Excelllent performance from the late Chris Penn (brother of Shaun). > > Clint Eastwoods character in the Eiger Sanction > > John Waters film Desperate Living a queen is cooked and consumed by her subjects. Chris Penn is dead? (checks wikipedia). Wow, nearly 10 years. And his brother’s name is spelled “Sean”, and pronounced “Sin” (at least according to the Church lady). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/57 "2015-09-16T21:04:56Z")
Bob Hoskins in **Felicia’s Journey** - it was fairly heavily implied that he had killed a bunch of young women in the past. ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/58 "2015-09-18T00:27:25Z")
**Murder Under Glass, Columbo** - restaurant critic and amateur chef Louis Jourdan bumps off a restauranteur who’s threatening to expose Jourdan’s blackmailing. His preparation of _fugu_ requires some serious cooking chops, as does his use of the fish’s toxin. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CChv6tMd4) ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/59 "2015-09-18T02:05:09Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > One of the finest Nero Wolfe mystery novels by Rex Stout is 1939’s TOO MANY COOKS. A famous chef is murdered by another famous chef at a famous chef contest. > > No human flesh is consumed, though. Wolfe would have said “Pfui” to that. Now that I think of it, it was the NY hotel owner (Liggett?), not one of the chefs, who was the murderer. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/60 "2015-09-18T03:16:15Z")
Bender’s cooking in _Futurama_ was bad enough to cause his mentors stomach to explode, I guess that would count. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350.md?page=4)