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[peapod]

Re: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

You must have been in the restaurant business at one time snoproblem, I did, you are right one the money. One reason I don't eat out.:wink:

 

[snoproblem]

Re: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

Actually, I have done kitchen duty for a restaurant, but that wasn't my main job. That place, however, was dilligent in keeping the place clean. I oughta know, I helped out once in a while! :wink:

The owners had stories about other places that, uh, weren't so dilligent. They didn't name names, but they did point out that some high-end places were prime culprits. I also knew some cooks and wait staff... same kind of stories.

Ever watch "Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares" on the Food Network? Those kitchens can be pretty gross, sometimes.

 

[missile]

RE: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

I had to do the Roach kill at a local eatery while working in the basement of a certain department store, and after those experiences,I,too,almost never eat out. This could have something to do with the fact that I was ordered to spray all the food with poisonous chemicals every night!As I doubt any trace of that company still exists,I'll say it was United Stores of Montreal. On an average night,I would sweep up at least 3 dustpans full of dead roaches.

 

[peapod]

Re: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

hahahahhaha thats funny snoproblem. Have you read "kitchen confidential" by anthony bourdain?? Adventures in the culinary underbelly :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: More gripping than a steven king novel 8O Its so funny!!!!!

"After twenty five years of "sex, drugs and bad behaviour and haute cuisine" chef and novelist anthony bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in provincetown; from the kitchen of the rainbow room atop the rockerfeller centre to the drug dealers on the east village, from tokyo to paris and back to new york again, bourdains tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny."

You will laugh your head off snoproblem if you read it. :wink:

 

[snoproblem]

Re: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

Anthony Bourdain is a pretty cool guy. He should cut back on the smokes, though. :?

I regularly watched his show, "A Cook's Tour". He goes everywhere, he tries everything. Fearless, that one.

Yeah, I watch the Food Network a lot!

 

[peapod]

Re: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

The book is both very funny :lol: and also very scary 8O. The food channel is good, I use to love watching those two fat ladies from england, I found the food they made mezmorizing 8O and so gross Like there mode of transportation tho. 8)
Now don't get upset bigh, I love roast beef and yorkshire puddin. :wink:

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

RE: British restaurants dominate "World's Best" sh

I'm with you on that P - they're a couple of old school crazies, those two. Traditional British food, maybe, but if you ate that stuff often you'd end up with that other British tradition; chronic heart disease.