# Hell's Kitchen, and it's viewers. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096 "2010-10-14T05:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/141 "2010-10-21T22:08:58Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Hey, remember when this thread used to be about “Hell’s Kitchen”? And now it’s all about García Márquez and Rushdie. That’s pretty magical! Cite? ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/142 "2010-10-21T23:32:00Z")
While I do find it odd that they may have been homeless and went into the restaurant to catch up on their favorite tv shows, it seems to me your biggest problem with the woman was her enjoying of the show. It sounds like her situation sucks - although probably self inflicted, she still has the right to some enjoyment. Obese and homeless? Sound terrible, and is probably part of the reason you were so quick to judge her. If an attractive stay at home mom came in with her kids intent on watching her favorite show in the Burger King I have a feeling your words wouldnt be so harsh, it you even particularly remembered the incident. ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/143 "2010-10-21T23:37:44Z")
> [@may\_be\_ignorant](#): > > While I do find it odd that they may have been homeless and went into the restaurant to catch up on their favorite tv shows, it seems to me your biggest problem with the woman was her enjoying of the show. It sounds like her situation sucks - although probably self inflicted, she still has the right to some enjoyment. Obese and homeless? Sound terrible, and is probably part of the reason you were so quick to judge her. If an attractive stay at home mom came in with her kids intent on watching her favorite show in the Burger King I have a feeling your words wouldnt be so harsh, it you even particularly remembered the incident. Perfect username/post juxterposition. Why do I try?😛 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/144 "2010-10-22T02:20:50Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > Perfect username/post juxterposition. > > Why do I try?😛 Actaully, it’s nice to see someone try to get the thread back on track. ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/145 "2010-10-22T02:26:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Actaully, it’s nice to see someone try to get the thread back on track. To anywhere in particular, **TSS**? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/146 "2010-10-22T03:22:27Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Hey, remember when this thread used to be about “Hell’s Kitchen”? And now it’s all about García Márquez and Rushdie. That’s pretty magical! Gordon Ramsey cooks a mean Salmon Rushdie. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/147 "2010-10-22T11:46:19Z")
> [@AutumnLeaves](#): > > I work at a two-Michelin star restaurant. I work three days on, three days off. So which day of the week does being a cook delete? (I hope it’s Monday.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/148 "2010-10-22T11:57:56Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > So which day of the week does being a cook delete? (I hope it’s Monday.) 😃 LMFAO, “STIMPY YOU EEE-DIOT!” He didn’t say he works 6 days a week… he said he works 3 days on and then 3 days off…repeatedly. Similarily, back on the 80’s,I used to work a 10 on/4 off schedule. How do you think I fit that in? It’s a rotating schedule! Buy a calendar, look at it, then come back and read it again.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/149 "2010-10-22T13:51:21Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Hey, remember when this thread used to be about “Hell’s Kitchen”? And now it’s all about García Márquez and Rushdie. That’s pretty magical! Well, Rushdie used to be married to Padma Lakshmi. So there’s a kinda connection to TV “reality” cooking shows. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/150 "2010-10-22T14:28:38Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Well, Rushdie used to be married to Padma Lakshmi. Whoa. I’ve gotta become a writer. Wait, I am a writer. I’ve gotta become a \*better \*writer. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/151 "2010-10-22T15:07:26Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I told you you shouldn’t have hit-and-run that dude in the yellow raincoat. In my case, it tends to be more of a punch-and-flee. > [@adhay](#): > > Obfuscate? What did I obfuscate? > [@](#): > > Live forever as you are. Like it? Young, attractive, intelligent, amusing, and arrogant? You bet your ass. > [@adhay](#): > > Perfect username/post juxterposition. He does that a lot, actually. We really should thank him for picking such an informative username. Also, the word you’re looking for is “jux **ta** position.” > [@kidchameleon](#): > > Gordon Ramsey cooks a mean Salmon Rushdie. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/152 "2010-10-22T15:44:01Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > And no one really thinks any Gordon Ramsey show is actually true to life. Lies! That one time when Gordon was trying to save that one restuarant and he rode around on his flying unicorn around town to advertise the restuarant is absolutely true. I was there. The flying unicorn pooped on me. ---
**Author:** ![AutumnLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@AutumnLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AutumnLeaves)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/153 "2010-10-22T22:21:19Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > LMFAO, “STIMPY YOU EEE-DIOT!” > He didn’t say he works 6 days a week… he said he works 3 days on and then 3 days off…repeatedly. Similarily, back on the 80’s,I used to work a 10 on/4 off schedule. How do you think I fit that in? It’s a rotating schedule! > Buy a calendar, look at it, then come back and read it again.😃 She, actually, but yes, I didn’t think I needed to explain what three days on, three days off meant. Thanks for doing that for me as it did, in fact, seemed to be necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/154 "2010-10-24T10:59:21Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > Dude, I picked the most obscure, boring-sounding, pretentious asshole target market documentary I could think of and leave it to my fellow Dopers… Not only did many of you get the reference, but you’ve seen the damn movie. In the theater. With popcorn and fake butter, I hope. 🆒 Oh, poo! :mad: Now I’m mortified to admit my riotously giddy anticipation of the sequel, [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium] **Cooper Old Style—_The Forgotten Sibling_** [/FONT] ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/155 "2010-10-25T05:37:13Z")
I used to think Gordon Ramsey was a piggish, uncouth asshole whom I would slap in short order if I were ever on the receiving end of his disrespect. Then I found out that he allegedly had lied about using animal-based stocks in vegetarian dishes, and has served ham to dimwitted, unknowing vegetarians. He then became my culinary idol. ---
**Author:** ![AutumnLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@AutumnLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AutumnLeaves)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/156 "2010-10-25T12:21:08Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > I used to think Gordon Ramsey was a piggish, uncouth asshole whom I would slap in short order if I were ever on the receiving end of his disrespect. > > Then I found out that he allegedly had lied about using animal-based stocks in vegetarian dishes, and has served ham to dimwitted, unknowing vegetarians. > > He then became my culinary idol. Oooh, aren’t you just so _edgy_. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/157 "2010-10-25T15:13:46Z")
Do you also waylay men on the street with payot to shove bacon in their mouths? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/158 "2010-10-25T15:25:25Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > I used to think Gordon Ramsey was a piggish, uncouth asshole whom I would slap in short order if I were ever on the receiving end of his disrespect. > > Then I found out that he allegedly had lied about using animal-based stocks in vegetarian dishes, and has served ham to dimwitted, unknowing vegetarians. > > He then became my culinary idol. I’ve seen the ham episode of Kitchen Nightmares, unless you’re talking about an ongoing thing at a restaurant and not the specific occasion I’m thinking of. He had the chef and sous chefs at the restaurant make vegetarian pizzas and one of the sous chefs put ham on hers. He pulled some people off the street at random and asked them to taste them. When the one guy said he was a vegetarian, he said they were vegetarian because he believed they were. Then after they ate the pizzas, the sous chef corrects Ramsey, off camera I think, and he tells the vegetarian that his favorite one had ham in it. He sort of made a joke out of it because the vegetarian picked the ham pizza as his favorite but I don`t think there was any deliberate trickery. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/159 "2010-10-25T15:51:02Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > I used to think Gordon Ramsey was a piggish, uncouth asshole whom I would slap in short order if I were ever on the receiving end of his disrespect. > > Then I found out that he allegedly had lied about using animal-based stocks in vegetarian dishes, and has served ham to dimwitted, unknowing vegetarians. > > He then became my culinary idol. Jeez, that would be a totally dickish thing to do – lie to people about what’s in the food you’re giving them. Aside them them being dimwitted vegetarians. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/160 "2010-10-25T15:58:25Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Do you also waylay men on the street with payot to shove bacon in their mouths? :rolleyes: But see, in one case you have a group of fussy, humorless religious zealots, and in the other you have orthodox Jews… Kidding, of course. Unless you’re talking about militant vegans, which, come on— they even find \*themselves \*annoying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096.md?page=9)