I've really been meaning to take more of an active role in moderating the cooking channel. My prejudice is obviously against fast food, especially big corporate fast food like domino's, McDonald's etc. Having said that, I actually really like this video. If I am going to have a stated bias against fast food, I should kick this out of the channel, but I am going to leave it in for now.

Now, as for the video that is referenced in this video. I'ma Seek and destroy that shit. Downvote and channel kick. This channel is SUPPOSED to (in my mind, anyway) be about cuisine. Not jackoff idiots who should never be allowed to touch food. Not even the plastic, preprocessed bullshit that passes for food at places like Domino's.

>> ^Memorare:
it aint just Dominoes kids, and it aint just boogers and buttwipes, and it aint just a little sick that you're likely to get.
=Every= restaurant where food is prepared out of public view by unsupervised employees has this going on.
The lawsuit needs to be against Dominoes to change how and where and under who's view food is prepared.
If you can't watch it being cooked or prepared, don't eat it.


You are SO wrong. I have never seen anything like this in over 10 years of working in food service. Actually, at the places where I've worked, we don't even JOKE about this kind of thing. And we joke about everything. The thing you don't fuck with is the food. Not food for each other, but ESPECIALLY not for the customers.

Maybe you don't understand how fucking hard the restaurant industry is, but we dedicate our LIVES to it, and don't expect very much in return. Our margins are so slim, the whims of the public are so fickle, more restaurants fail than succeed. Some of the greatest chefs in the world have restaurants that lose money. Even the great Gordon Ramsey had to shut his restaurant in Dublin. Our jobs are SO expendable, even if you are the best.

In the face of all of this adversity, we still persevere. We still create fantastic cuisine for you all. I like to think that it is the creativity of chefs that makes dinner time bearable. If it wasn't for chefs, we'd eating boiled meat and overcooked vegetables. Plain boiled potatoes, and no gravy. We don't do our jobs because we're trying to make civilization better, but it is a happy coincidence. We do our jobs because we are compelled to, maybe it is some defect in our personalities, but I like to call that defect Love. We do it for love.

These people aren't cooks. These people are nothing like my people. This doesn't happen in real restaurants. I've worked at many restaurants, and I've worked test shifts at many, many more. I've never seen behaviour ANYTHING like this. I would be reporting it to the health department straight away if I had. And I think that the dozens and dozens of chefs and cooks I've worked with would do the same.

Just because you saw waiting and think you know how it is doesn't make you an expert on restaurant kitchen culture. Try living it, and then come back and tell me what you saw.

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OK, so I'll make a list now, and then read everybody elses and see if it reminds me of other books that really stick with me

1 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
2 1984 - George Orwell
3 A Deepness In The Sky - Vernor Vinge
4 Interview With A Vampire - Ann Rice
5 Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner and John Markoff
6 The Tuning of The World - R. Murray Schafer
7 The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
8 National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe - Roy A. Gallant and Margaret Sedeen
9 The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine - Rudolph Chelminski
10 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan

OK, read others' and realize that I should have put Dune, for sure. I'm glad to see I'm not the only Hofstadter fan, and thrilled to see another Vinge on the list.

I feel kind of weird to have 1984 and Interview with a Vampire on my list. 1984, just because it really did stick and resonate, and well... I've probably read IwaV a few dozen times. Back in junior high I read it almost monthly.

I actually was considering putting The Star Wars Sourcebook by Bill Slavicsek & Curtis Smith on my list. That book blew my mind when I was young, and it definitely will always have a special place in my heart. Now that I look at a picture of the cover on Amazon, I wish that I had. Such an awesome book.

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People have to understand that American's co-opt all things culinary and turn them into their own thing. If you are in the United States...
1. Mexican restaurants do not serve 'authentic' Mexican cuisine.
2. Chinese restaurants do not serve 'authentic' Chinese cuisine.
3. Italian restaurants do not serve 'authentic' Italian cuisine.

Basically almost NO ethnic restaurants serve authentic ethnic cuisine. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between and they are NOT (definitely) NOT a 'chain'.

So for these jerk-faces who are pretending to be funny to get all testy because Outback STEAKHOUSE (steakhouse DUH!) doesn't serve authentic cuisine from Australia's outback is beyond moronic. It isn't funny. It isn't even close to being funny. It's a pathetic attempt at humor that fails miserably on all levels.

If they'd actually tried some HUMOR instead of just being a bunch of jackholes maybe they'd have a purpose. They didn't. Humor isn't just tossing an epileptic, autistic, turret's syndrome fit in public over something pathetically mundane like the non-issue of an American restaurant (gasp!) serving American food!

Seriously guise.. Babbage and Turing? If only my computer was an electromechanical device the size of a house. Have you ever heard of a semiconductor? And the internet is clearly came out of mostly US military, US Universities and US silicon valley. Also, nothing Comedy Central does is funny, it's a joke and more like ironic humor that they are called Comedy Central (it's dark humour).

Long John Silvers > newspaper wrapped cod

Also, how about sugar, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, cocoa, hot peppers, turkey, beans (except the blackeyed pea), pineapples

Enjoy your non-American cuisine jerkops.

I may take you up on that, Hombre. Never know.

Thanks for the invite.

We went to this dive bar out on a pier once when I was there.

I like the places with colorful clientele.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I'm touched. I am so glad you can appreciate our cuisine, especially that of the Mexican type. It is the thing I miss most when I leave my small slice of heaven. Hit me up if you're ever in my town, we'll go to one of my favorite hole-in-the-walls for lunch...and then my favorite glory-hole for dessert.

In reply to this comment by rougy:
San Diego has some of the best Mexican food I've ever had.

Fish Tacos. Gotta try one. Sounds gross, but man it's good.

>> ^Hive13:
When I lived in Korea, I did this very thing. When in Rome....
Still, I fail to see how this is "ethically questionable". What does eating a form of sushi have to do with ethics? This is perfectly normal and accepted cuisine in Asia. Are you saying that because you don't understand or accept this that you are somehow on moral high ground over many Asians? Pretty egotistical.
Upvote for the memories.


When in Rome...

...feed Christians to the lions in the Colosseum?

Sorry, but I despise this sort of wooly minded "each to their own" thinking. It's the ultimate cop out. Tradition and cultural norms are no excuse for barbarism.

>> ^Abducted:
"In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust"
Eh?


Really? You've never heard the phrase "Real men don't eat quiche"?

That and the Chai Lattes are insults to their masculinity.

"In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust"

Eh?

If you're ever in town, I offer some fine cuisine from this book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4956212

>> ^legacy0100:
>> ^dannym3141:
Sorry to do that, but you could see it coming i'm sure. I don't envy the philosphy of asian cuisine, and i don't think i have had my horizons restricted by western values. If i had to eat and kill and cook to survive, i would, and i would ensure minimum stress to all parties involved whilst doing so, because that's the sort of person that i am.
Having a different opinion does not a racist make.


1. Terrorists ethically question Americans because our values are different from theirs.
2. dannym3141 ethically question Asians because their culture is different from ours.
3. You think like a terrorist.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!


Ahahahahaaaa! However. Not only terrorists ethically question americans for their values. So do child molesters!

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