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Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

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Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Dave R » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:26 pm

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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Shel T » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:08 pm

Watch it occasionally until I've had enough of all that non-stop vitriol and you wanna say "enough already" LOL!
And if you'd want to make a case by inference, why Ramsay won't be at the network for years to come, imagine all that acid eating you up from the inside and GR becoming just a smelly puddle in the middle of the kitchen!
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Larry Greenly » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:16 pm

Moi. And I like both of them. :P
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by John Tomasso » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:42 am

I watched Kitchen Nightmares a few times, but the formula became stale to me.
The other one, I never watch.
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Jenise » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:48 pm



Nope. Not into vitriol.
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Frank Deis » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:41 pm

This is just dumb, but since it has hit me this way several times, I have to say:

When I read the header for this topic I find myself trying to remember if I know what a "Fox Seal" looks like. I generally imagine a really cute little animal. They I start wondering why they would want to deal with Gordon Ramsay? Then -- OH! Right!!

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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Jeff Grossman » Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:54 pm

I just love the English language! Noun, adjective, verb -- who can tell? :)
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Bill Spohn » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:31 am

Yeah, I watch his shows. Enjoy Nightmares more.

Main quibble - why do they choose restaurants and owners that are beyond saving, or that you find you don't really care whether they survive or not.

And similarly, it is so obvious in Hell's Kitchen that some of the candidates are chosen as nothing more than cannon fodder, to fzck up and be dispatched by Ramsay at an early date as a sort of gladiatorial sacrifice for bored simple-minded audiences. I'd respect the shows more if all of the candidates had at least a shot at winning. Wouldn't make it as entertaining for those used to a car chase or explosion every commercial or so, but it would make it more interesting for the rest of us.

Really looking forward to The F Word, which is coming to Food TV in Canada this Fall. Have you guys in the US seen that series yet? If so, what did you think of it?
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Larry Greenly » Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:24 am

I agree some are chosen to be cannon fodder on Hell's Kitchen--just like the unknown sap who would beam down with Kirk and the other officers on some unfriendly planet. The very last iteration of HK had no one who really stood above the rest--at least in my mind.

Kitchen Nightmares are nightmares in that you might sometime eat at a similar cockroach-infested, uninspired establishment. In Albuquerque, the health department inspections are in the paper every Thursday and are on the city's website. They don't pull any punches if a restaurant is unapproved or shut down for health reasons. The inspection report is quoted verbatim. "It's a good thing."
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Mike Filigenzi » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:42 am

I've seen Kitchen Nightmares a few times and I guess it's ok.

My wife and daughter were in England last month and saw one of his shows in it's uncensored format. Isabella had fun counting the number of "bad words".
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Re: Fox Seals Deal With Chef Gordon Ramsay

by Larry Greenly » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:37 am

We're puritanical over here and we need to be protected from bad words and impure thoughts.

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