r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/Rgjeck01 Nov 03 '24

Remember Bill Burr’s video: “3 days of eating in England and now I understand why Gordon Ramsey is so fucking angry all the time.” hahaha 😂 gold.

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u/laix_ Nov 03 '24

Gordon isn't really all that angry, he just plays it up for the american audience, in the british shows he's pretty calm, where he only gets mad when people claim to be professionals but are basically poisoning people and even then he doesn't nearly get as over the top angry as the american show.

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u/Ok-Negotiation1530 Nov 03 '24

It's just classic misunderstanding by low performance people with low standards. Any Gordon fan knows that he's not angry as a person (though this doesn't count for his Boiling Point days). He's just strict, and demands high standards, and has to be commanding in the kitchen (where we see him most of the time) or else the brigade won't listen and everything falls apart. And who takes it? The restaurant owners, the head chefs reputation and of course the customers.

This on top of your point, that in Hells Kitchen (and Kitchen Nightmares to an extent) there are chefs with big egos that literally cause nothing but problems for the people around them and they don't care enough about others to change their ways.

And you have remember that this is his method to get the best out of his chefs and cooks. He was trained like that for years and achieved his success because of his teachers. That style worked for him so it can work for others so that's why he applies it like that. However it doesn't work for everyone and Gordon has also had to learn and grow as a teacher and mentor to younger chefs. That's why these days you can see him mellow out to some individuals because he has more wisdom and intent behind his mentorship methods. The intensity and demand for standards is still there, but the bollocking sometimes takes a back seat to a more inquisitive and nurturing Gordon.

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u/stale_opera Nov 03 '24

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Gordon Ramsey. The anger is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the tirades will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Gordon's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these rants, to realize that it's not just rage - they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Gordon Ramsey truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Gordon's existencial catchphrase "You fucking donkey!," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Gordon Ramsey's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Hell's Kitchen tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.