Ramsays Great British Nightmare Friday 9pm Channel 4.

[Brad123]

"My bessie mate" Gordon Ramsay is doing a special one off Kitchen Nightmares for the Channel 4 food week special thing. Starts 9pm channel 4 Friday 30th and running time is 2 hours.

Trailers make it look good so hopefully some fireworks.

[Captain_Howdy666]

If he was your "bessie mate", you'd spell his bloody name correctly.

[Brad123]

Wow, must be awful for you.

[dunkrag]

If he was your "bessie mate", you'd spell his bloody name correctly.

:D

[Mr Dan]

:lol:

[Dodgy]

I watched this last night (recording), anyone thing the head chef in the Sheffield restaurant was very quick to ladle (see what I did there?) on the blame for everything to his best mate? He was the chef, and he was the one heating up all that stored pre-cooked food and yet Gordon seemed to buy it hook line and sinker.

[Brad123]

Think Gordon could see he was a hot head av it large oasis wannabee so didnt pick on him. Felt sorry for the Sheffield owner, his mate seemed like a bully to be honest.

[Mr Flibble]

anyone for a quick lamb shank? :|

[MARKMAN]

Think Gordon could see he was a hot head av it large oasis wannabee so didnt pick on him. Felt sorry for the Sheffield owner, his mate seemed like a bully to be honest.

Don't feel sorry for this guy, trust me on this one. Won't say why but DO NOT FEEL SORRY for him!:thumbs:

[Mr Flibble]

:lol: you can't leave it at that, enquiring minds want to know!

[BlueDwarf]

anyone for a quick lamb shank? :|

Not now, maybe in a year?

[James45]

I've never heard swearing like it!!! The sheffield owner was a nob, what an awful restaurant and the solution was built into the masonary of the building! Talk about staring you in the face!

Mick from Devon was a lost cause, why open a restaurant when you have no interest in or knowledge of food?

[Ono]

anyone for a quick lamb shank? :|

I got given a box of these from CostCo a couple of years ago. Said to mate that I had limited freezer space but he told me it didn't need to be frozen or refrigerated. I didn't believe him until I read the labels but was still shocked.

We did finish the box though and they tasted OK. Not gone back for any though :D

[Mr Flibble]

Oh dear god, have you no respect for your innards!! The main ingredient seemed to be E numbers! :eek: ;)

[ajr90]

He was the chef, and he was the one heating up all that stored pre-cooked food

... because he'd been told by the owner to do that! He wanted fresh food and to cook from fresh, but the owner bought food in bulk because it was cheaper that way, so it was either chuck it out and waste tons of money, or cook it for warming up later.

The poor chef had been working in intolerable conditions for two years, it's no wonder he snapped when the only started blithering like a numpty about how "People really like the music" for the umpteenth time, totally ignoring all Gordon's input.

[Mark153]

Was it just me, or did the editing of this double-episode make it seem more like the painfully predictable USA episodes? The only things missing were an annoying Gordon Kennedy narration and the stock comedy music when someone is acting like a prat.

To wit (in the style of Charlie Brooker)...

1) Gordon comes in and slates everything the restaurant is doing. The scene is deliberately shot with long silences and pauses for dramatic tension. For maximum shock value, Gordon may spit something out, gag or throw-up.
2) The kitchen or the food itself is proved to be a health hazard, or the chef is proved an incompetent/arrogant half-wit. A confrontation about this ensues. A key member of staff or a long-suffering relative throws a major strop and/or breaks down in tears. Cue a commercial break to maintain the simmering tension.
3) It is revealed that the owner desperately clings to a naff gimmick that only they understand, or the head chef is convinced his wacky chocolate-coated monkey gonad is the bedrock of the restaurant's "success". Another confrontation ensues. Gordon forces them to see the error of their ways by swearing a lot, albeit in a caring way.
4) Gordon inspires someone by taking them out of the kitchen to lust over fresh produce and then the two have a cooking session together to the strains of some anthemic alt-rock or James Brown.
5) A new menu is created, consisting entirely of re-invented, idiot-proof British classics. This is usually against the ethnic theme of the restaurant, but nobody seems to care.
6) Gordon has a heart-to-heart with the owner and after some tough love of the four-lettered variety, manages to tease their head out of their arse - albeit fleetingly. He might just save their relationship/marriage at this point also. Cue hugs, tears, kissing and more anthemic music.
7) The restaurant is tarted-up and renamed to something painfully obvious for a grand opening night. Cue an emotional unveiling as Coldplay's "The Scientist" swells up in the background and the staff rejoice at their newly-minted magnolia walls.
8) The grand opening night arrives. Gordon has (personally!) invited lots of important locals to sample <del>his</del> the restaurant's new menu. The viewer gets a warm-and-fuzzy feeling as it seems to be going so well. Then suddenly the owner reverts to plonk mode and it all goes tits-up at the worst possible moment. A food critic or the local mayor will usually be present.
9) Following yet another heated confrontation, Gordon comes outside for a hand-gesture-laden rant where he concludes its has: a) been his toughest challenge yet; b) the owner is his own worst enemy; and c) he's not certain that the place can survive. Cut to a final commercial break.
10) Gordon comes up with a final promotional gimmick which usually involves the staff taking to the streets with a megaphone and shovelling food down an unsuspecting public's throat. Everyone thinks its great because Gordon Ramsay's involved and the episode ends on a positive note.

I've never heard swearing like it!!!
I think it gave The Commitments a run for its money - see FoxNews linky here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486546,00.html). We were rolling around the place when, after a tirade of F's from the head chef, Gordon gestures him for a cuddle and says something like "come here you big ******".

As for the packeted lamb shanks :gag: Mick was probably right in his claim that nobody had complained. You have to wonder how many popular chain restaurants and family pubs must use these, and how many average Joes blindly eat it thinking its freshly prepared. If there wasn't a market for them, they wouldn't exist.