IMHO / Cafe Society with a splash of Pit: “If Chef Ramsey were to take over a Burger King, which fictional characters from the magical realism genre would do best, and which 'Dopers would watch?”
Good effort but you forgot to include something font related.
Good point, dude, 
Ok, someone start a thread about Gaiman etc elsewhere, let us get back to **Stan Shmenge **the OP and so forth. Maybe he can answer some of our “friendly” questions.
Maybe he didn’t know that PIT threads often “come back” on the OP with a vengance.
Since this is the pit, and we have the nested quotes, I can rectify.
Fuck Fonts and Serifs they rode in on.
No, but Hamlet did.
Oh, he knew.
Good, good. They’d just better watch their backs!
What the fuck is this? Come HERE… this Wellington is fucking RAW!!!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a Burger King crown.
I would have expected someone on these boards to know what pop culture means even if they didn’t appreciate it or follow it. Not knowing the definition and not understanding that Neil Gaiman very clearly falls well within it is just a startling display of illiteracy. 
Sorry dude.
For the record, I watch Hell’s Kitchen, occasionally eat at a Burger King, have read only a few things by Neil Gaiman but so far have found him to be vastly overrated (it’s unfortunate when good authors end up being disappointing reads solely in comparison to their ridiculously overhyped reputations), am proudly lacking familiarity with a lot of meaningless pop culture trivia (for example, if Snookie is a character on The Housewives of Jersey Shore or TrueBlood), would love to see the Helvetica documentary sometime, think “trailer trash” comments are ignorant and trollish, enjoy some comic books but realize that they’re not for everyone, sometimes use run-on sentences intentionally, and think anyone who would dismiss my intelligence or worthiness as a human being based upon any of those things is just generally clueless.
I’m just amazed that someone on the SDMB admitted to eating fast food without apologizing. Sure, we get cop outs like “Ew I only eat Burger King like once a year if I absolutely must, and even then I only get down half of a burger and some water before I puke”, but never anything like this. On the SDMB, outside of a very few fast food threads, eating fast food is a shameful experience that you should never, ever talk about.
This is a momentous occasion.
Hey, I eat at Burger King every Christmas Eve.
It’s a tradition. 
I love In&Out, and if there was one nearby, I’d eat there once a week. As for the Big Chains, no, I eat there only rarely.
Let’s try and derail this train wreck further.
I freely and wholehearteadly admit that I eat fast food regularly. From all and sundry chains both foreign and domestic 
Is it good for me? No. Is it great tasing food? it has it’s moments, but not normally no. But I eat it anyway. Why - for the very reason it was invented it’s quick and easy, and does the job. And sometimes after along hard day at work the last bloody thing I feel like doing is cooking. Even though whatever I home cooked would be far more nutrious, and far far more tasty.
How’s that. I’m a doper and freely admit to regularly eating fast food.
That’s exactly what it is and I say that as a fan of the show.
Gordon Ramsay is playing a character, that of the easily-offended, hair-trigger tempered celebrity chef. He’s playing it up for the cameras at the direction of Fox, hence all the screaming and yelling. The diners are encouraged to complain or send food back if anything is wrong with it. The jobs the chefs are offered are vanity titles for line cook/overpaid kitchen monkey (for example last season the prize was “head chef” at the Araxi restaurant in Whistler for the 2010 Olympics. One thing- Araxi already has a head chef who is well established there! James Walt didn’t give up his hard earned top spot there so the winner of a reality show could run the place, especially at that time!) Comparing Hell’s Kitchen to a real restaurant is just silly.
A lot of people hate on Gordon Ramsay because they see him screaming and pitching fits on this show and they assume that that is who he is rather than the character he is playing. But check out Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares sometime. In the episode “Piccolo Teatro” he rescues a little vegetarian restaurant in Paris, literally throws out the crazy old chef, mentors the young enthusiastic new one and runs the restaurant singlehandedly to prove to the owner that she could make money by doing a very simple lunch service. Through the whole thing the owner is lazy and disinterested, worried more about her cats than the fate of her business. So even though he leaves her with the means to make all kinds of money plus a talented young chef, she ends up shutting the place down because she finds it too stressful to deal with. Ramsay comes back and tells her off, very politely but firmly. He doesn’t scream or yell or get in her face. He just concludes with “What a shame” and takes her talented new chef with him when he leaves.
and if any Kitchen Nightmares episode deserved Ramsay pounding his fist in a plate of food and screaming “Stupid Donkey!” at someone it was that one.
You should still watch the film–there are interviews with people who dislike Helvetica, too.
If he didn’t know, it wasn’t from a lack of experience of it happening before.
Then I would firmly agree that **Hamlet **doesn’t know from “high-brow” literature.
1.) Neil Gaiman is not pop culture. He’s very popular in the subculture of comic books and (urban) fantasy fiction. And I say this as someone who used to read a shit-ton of comics and fantasy. If you go up to a hundred people on the street today and ask whether they’ve heard of Lady Gaga and/or Neil Gaiman, I bet you dollars to donuts way more will have heard of the former than the latter. In fact, let’s have a little test. (And I’m putting myself at risk here, since our little community tends on the whole to be less invested in pop culture and more invested in subcultures like Gaimain is known in.)
2.) Not a dude.
Google news search for Lady Gaga: 9,848 returns
Google news search for Neil Gaiman: 198 returns
Lady Gaga has almost *fifty times as many *news stories.
Spell it “kneel gay man” and I bet you’ll get a lot more hits.