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This pretty much applies to anything originated in the UK and redone in the US by Choson 06/17/2009, 12:32pm PDT
Zsenitan wrote:

Horrible Gelatinous Blob wrote:

I can't even watch US Kitchen Nightmares anymore, and I'm slavishly devoted to Ramsay.

Yes this. The UK one has larger balls and less of a puling obsession with a happy-looking ending.



Takes the kid out and trashes him at soccer on top of everything else!


For a nice anti-Ramsay series, check out "Cook on the Wild Side", which is hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (yeah, quite) and is basically a super-personable nebbishy British chef going around the dells and dales and twee little canals of Britain foraging and rustling up whatever food he can get from hedgerows, forests and marshes and then cooking it all up in his "gastrowagon" (a modified jeepy-truck that has a pretty decent kitchen in the back). Usually he fails completely and ends up frying up his bait or eating insects. I've been watching this so I know how to cook all the grasses and roots I'll be gathering in case of homelessness. I found Hugh through watching "The F Word", which is Gordon Ramsay's attempt to be Jamie Oliver and make nice with UK celebrities most of whom you've never heard of, where he was giving Ramsay tips on how to fatten up his backyard-raised turkey.

On a related note, if anyone wants to drop 50 CAD on an interesting DVD, Martin Picard, the chef who runs Au Pied Du Cochon in Montreal (basically a restaurant devoted to gluttony), did a series on Radio-Canada (CBC French) called Martin Sur La Route where he did the same kind of thing. I've only seen bits of it but I suspect it's about as different from "Cook on the Wild Side" as a fat Quebecois chef would be from an English upper-class quasi-hippie. It's impossible to find in torrents.
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Kitchen Nightmares by Rafiki 06/17/2009, 10:52am PDT NEW
    Ignore US Kitchen Nightmares, go directly to UK Kitchen Nightmares by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/17/2009, 12:12pm PDT NEW
        Re: Ignore US Kitchen Nightmares, go directly to UK Kitchen Nightmares by Zsenitan 06/17/2009, 12:19pm PDT NEW
            This pretty much applies to anything originated in the UK and redone in the US by Choson 06/17/2009, 12:32pm PDT NEW
        did I accidentally wander into the chef's apartment? NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/17/2009, 12:23pm PDT NEW
        I'm glad I didn't have to say this. Uncensored swearing alone makes it better. NT by Fussbett 06/17/2009, 12:32pm PDT NEW
        Great show, but why do they always have to film Gordon changing his shirt? NT by Jerry Whorebach 06/17/2009, 1:24pm PDT NEW
            It's in his contract, I'd wager. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/17/2009, 6:18pm PDT NEW
    It was lame by Mischief Maker 06/17/2009, 7:29pm PDT NEW
 
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