Nah that's spot on. He gets angry to see stupid shit and he isn't afraid to let people know because it does have consequences. Don't be a donkey and he's sound as fuck, I reckon.

But of course good TV means they'll put quite the muppets on his path, for drama.

100%. The kitchen nightmares UK version was way way way better because it wasn't overproduced and dramaed up, it was focused on the food and the restaurant which is way more interesting to me than a bunch of idiots yelling at each other.

I'm a chef so I have professional knowledge on this subject. Gordon is powerful enough to convert any red blooded lesbian into a pumpkin eater.

Fake and gay: pumpkin

The only pumpkin eating I know about is from the US and a lot of the stuff they eat should be illegal to consume.

How sad is it that a goofily angry man on the TV is a better parent than anon’s parents?

Some even say Star Trek TNG characters were their role models because it were the first adults actually acting as adults they were exposed to.

beat the fascists

The people telling boys to bottle up their emotions are the fascists. I don't mean that everyone who has said this is ideologically fascist, but that's a practice that, like you said, it only causes problems in society. The fascist impulse, the Hitler particle exists inside a lot of regular people and is reinforced by our social institutions especially the exploiting workplace.

There is a larger cultural issue at play here, but culture is dependent on the economic factors, and vice-versa

My mom didn't start to learn how to cook till she was in her 40s and that was like a hobby.

i've never dated a woman my entire life who didn't look down on me for cooking. even if she herself couldn't cook.

cultural beliefs are everything to many folks.

to them cooking and cleaning is for lower class people, if it's not women it should be hired help who are immigrants.

It's just another epic sexism moment. Cooking lame garden-variety "food to not die" crap at home to feed the family? That's a woman's job. Doing good, skillful cooking that has intrinsic merit of its own, cooking that deserves money? Oh okay, now men should be doing it. 🙃

This even happens with home cooking, at least it did in my town. The moms cook every night, but when a DAD is grilling some STEAK (ironically a much simpler dish to make), suddenly that's a special event.

Just about all prejudice is just manufactured cultural pressure. There's no base in reality or rationality, it's just "people told me this often enough that now I believe it." It easily shifts from culture to culture because different people said different baseless things that became "common knowledge" in that region.

Yeah. I do most of the cooking for me and my girlfriend, and that suits both of us. I like being able to cook what I want, and she likes eating what I cook.

I, too, yell, "Fuck off, you donkey" at the egg carton until the eggs come out.

The secret trick is to scramble them.

I tried his way a few times, did pickup some better technique for stirring, but mostly I still like mine how I've always made them. Have you seen the video of his (adult) son telling him that he likes his eggs different? I laughed pretty hard because it's exactly how i feel. "Yeah it's good but it takes 15 minutes!" Gordon being a dick about the pan too is just so on brand.

His voice demonstrating that on TV is always on my mind when making scrambled eggs.

Never stop stirring. Never stop! NEVER STOP!

Angry?

Fake: eggs you eat where you can't identify the yolk.
Gay: adding creme fraiche to anything, or even having it in your fridge

fake - annon's family is definitely still disappointed in them

gay - doing things for other people

There was an entire Jamie Oliver hate site and forum. Good times.