He also said: "I promise you this, that the minute I found out about it, then my main focus was making sure that we get the thing fixed... I'm outraged by this in part because look, I'm a public figure, if a future administration is starting to use the tax laws to favor one party over another or one political view over another, obviously, we’re all vulnerable."
I still want a special prosecutor because I just don't trust them not to cover up. The minute I found out about it, then my main focus was making sure that we get the thing fixed. I don't think people believe that. I don't believe it. And when was "the minute [he] found out about it"? He keeps making statements about finding out things around about whenever we do... which is absurdly self-serving, as if the only problems are public relations problems. Apparently, nothing exists for him until we learn about it!
The absurdity is hilariously depicted in this "Daily Show" clip:
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Poster Boy for Low Information voter.
He has competition from Eric Holder, but He Won. So he's It.
Restaurateurship à la Ritmo?
Chef Shit du Jour said:
Blah blah blah.
Are you about done, yet?
Funny how you confuse the word "clientele" for "employees". Also, I already noted that they didn't share your execrable politics. If you can even call them that. The closest you come to a well-defined political conviction is something with the intellectual consistency of grits.
Please consider going away. And an alternate profession. Someone whose mind fixates that fixedly on the fecal should be kept far away from food.
That's exactly what I'm talking about, Chip. Chef's invective and disdain for any sort of tasteful treatment of anything is the perfect complement to those two douchebags in Arizona.
I was actually hoping to get Chef's take on that show.
About halfway thru the first clip I was feeling sorry for them. Clearly a couple of control freaks who should scale back to running a nice coffee and pastry shop. But then...wow. BTW, apparently Amy's trying to bargain a reduced sentence for her conviction for filing a fraudulent loan application, and running a successful biz is a key part of her motion. That may help explain some of her craziness.
But even for normal people the stress involved in running a restaurant has got to be immense. Chef has got to be a pretty cool guy to survive in the biz.
About halfway thru the first clip I was feeling sorry for them.
I never did . I could tell that chick was shit-balls-crazy from the first time I saw her eyes.
The second was the cats-as-kids thing. That never turns out well.
In retrospect, yes, I should've paid more attention to the kiddie-cats thing.
Ramsay's a really tough guy/critic but obviously he must know his stuff. I watched the 2nd clip, it was enough to show me what I needed to know. Really sad already all the way around and yes they must be control freaks. Narcissistic, too - the poor woman doesn't even realize how her cosmetically perfected looks are a reflection of her (and probably a good third of America's and half of Arizona's) fixation on image. Taking tips is something I'd never heard of before. How anyone could think a 100-person turnover is normal/ok is beyond me.
Yes the business has to be difficult. So does any. Not sure about Chef's business, but of course I'm always willing to give anyone the benefit of a doubt. The other issue, as I see it, is that Americans have some of the worst taste in the world. Mass consumerism is not the thing of refinement. "Bistros" like "Amy's" must be dime a dozen. I'm sure that tons of Americans are ok with eating very mediocre things. And the market is king here, so if any of them survive, it's not really acceptable to complain. What a country.
My complaints earlier were pretty straightforward about simple misreadings. Chef may or may not have good taste (which is always an opinion, anyway), and I can give some leeway here and there on attitude. But we're not judging cooking - and it's pretty standard to recoil at insinuations, in jest or otherwise, of taking revenge in a biologically, er, personal way on a restaurant-goer. Chef says that's SOP in the biz, but I'm hoping for better. Oh well.
If I can see the humanity in Ramsay then I'm sure my bar is one that even Chef can meet.
In any event, the difference between busting balls and worse digs should be obvious, but cooks can be passionate, if intense people. Perhaps something got lost in translation along the way. So it goes.
From a marketing/business perspective, Ramsay was right that she was all over the place. 65 items was too much. If she's good at the desserts, why not just keep it at that? Branding was way too damn messy to interject pizzas and (the freaking ubiquitous) pastas into the mix. European? Come on. That's a typical American's cheap knock-off attempt at understanding anything about Europe. It might as well have been Digiorno. Obsessions with pasta in general, even in my neck of the woods, are out of control. If you want pride in Italian cooking, try some of that way underappreciated rustic stuff. You can only go so far with unremitting refined carbs, tomatoes and cheese. The coal oven fired joints manage to specialize well in it but unless you're supplementing a corner store, that's as far as it needs to go.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 after seeing the poor bitch's menu.
The upshot of a show as chaotic and attitudes as unrelenting as that? It gives you hope. The spirit of redemption is everywhere in America, and just waiting to reveal itself around every corner. And if not? Ca va.
Thanks for the link/clip. Interesting opportunity for commentary of all sorts.
One thing I wondered about in watching the second clip was the influence of the camera on the diners. I mean, I've eaten in some crappy joints but I've never seen that much food being sent back uneaten. Like that salmon filet--one bite? Really? After being made to wait for apparently an hour or two for your food? Who does that? Maybe someone who's gotten some hints from Ramsay that this is expected?
None of that means that they're not both nuts, of course. But we know there's nothing particularly real about reality tv, either.
"Shouldn't there be a special prosecutor in the IRS case?"
Yes ,Ann , there should be. I'm calling my representatives this morning.
Chip S. said...
Restaurateurship
My oldest daughter has met him on several occasions.
She has tried out for some sort of amateur cooking show where he is one of the judges.
She says he is really nice in person ans very encouraging.
"I'm a public figure, if a future administration is starting to use the tax laws to favor one party over another or one political view over another, obviously, we’re all vulnerable."
-- I'm concerned about the -current administration.-
"Hey, Scooter perjured himself to protect big DICK Cheney...he had a conviction coming to him. "
Obviously Cookie missed the interview with the jury foreman where he admitted that the jury didn't think Libby was guilty but would take him since Cheney or Rove weren't available.
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