# Resume: Impossible - Chef Robert Irvine dropped from Food Network **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083 "2008-03-04T19:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/21 "2008-03-05T05:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] didn’t this just happen to them with “The Next Food Network Star”? Why don’t they have some intern going through resumes right now, double checking everyone? Getting caught twice is just silly. [/QUOTE] What was that story? I think I missed it. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/22 "2008-03-05T07:01:58Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] What was that story? I think I missed it. [/QUOTE] From [realitytvworld.com](http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/report-next-food-network-star-finalist-lied-about-military-schooling-5467.php) . ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/23 "2008-03-05T07:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=Caffeine.addict] He’s a Knight Commander? The Queen gave him a castle? You have got to be kidding me. [/QUOTE] It sometimes seems that the best way to fleece rich, dumb Americans is to speak in a snotty British accent and claim to be an aristocrat of some sort. Centuries of rhetoric about American democracy and meritocracy get thrown out the window when some of these moronic social climbers get within fifty feet of anyone claiming to be nobility. It’s pretty funny, really. Members of the American military are pretty good at weeding out the fakes and the coat-tail riders. Maybe some other people should take lessons from them. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/24 "2008-03-05T16:55:58Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] imagine _Good Eats_ without Alton Brown [/QUOTE] Hush. Yo. Mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/25 "2008-03-05T18:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky] Good riddance. He’s an abusive prick, IMHO. But geez, the guy gets all the way into his 4th season before they find out? Weird. [/QUOTE] Really? I’m dissaoppointed with this because I found him to be very likable on the show and it was a very original premise. I thought he was a hoot. He never berated anyone that I ever saw. He only acted like he was the head chef of a kitchen that needed to server 500 people in 4 hours. Have you ever worked in a busy large scale kitchen before? On edit from the article, what does this mean? “He promised chef’s tasting menus’s…” What is a chefs tasting menu? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/26 "2008-03-05T20:19:25Z")
I can’t see why they would care about this assuming his ratings are good. Does anyone think this is just being used as an excuse to fire him, the real reason being something that went on behind the scenes between him and the network? Some kind of negotiation gone terribly wrong or something? -Kris ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/27 "2008-03-05T20:26:05Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] What is a chefs tasting menu? [/QUOTE] I don’t know if having “chef’s” in front changes it or not, but I found [tasting menu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasting_menu) on Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/28 "2008-03-05T20:42:05Z")
I hate that show. Good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/29 "2008-03-05T20:49:30Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] What is a chefs tasting menu? [/QUOTE] Instead of reading the menu and ordering, you allow the chef to choose and prepare a series of dishes to show off his skill and specialties. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/30 "2008-03-05T22:16:15Z")
Clarification: a series of _small_ dishes. Instead of three or four courses, you get eight or ten (or more: I did sixteen once, and I know of a couple of places that do more than twenty), but they’re all very small. Some of them will be about a quarter the size of a regular course; some will be just a single bite or swallow (like a taste of soup in a shot glass, or one frog’s leg). ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/31 "2008-03-06T00:36:26Z")
From the article: [QUOTE=Wendy LaTorre] “He said, ‘Sir Robert Irvine, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order,’” she recalled. “He said there were five levels of knights, and KCVO is the highest level of knight you could be. The queen handpicks you.” [/QUOTE] I’m not sure who should be more embarrassed: Irvine for making such an obvious error of fact [by not getting the facts of the Royal Victorian Order right (the Knight Grand Cross is the highest title in the RVO)](http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/cuhags/orderofc/rvo.htm), or LaTorre for being too stupid/lazy to do the small amount of research it took to find this information. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083.md?page=1)