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Dodgeblogium » Blog Archive » Tardy CoTV — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:46:59 +0000

[...] Madeleine Begun Kane presents Television Nightmares posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. [...]

By: madkane

madkane — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:13:32 +0000

VE, thanks for your fun verse.

Kirk, wonderful anecdote. Thanks.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:42:42 +0000

Your post reminds me of the time that my previous wife (who was admittedly a stunning red head who also happened to speak fluent Spanish) and I were dining with longtime friends in a “fashionable” Italian restaurant in Rhode Island.

After being seated in the proper manner that one would expect from such an establishment and handed our rather fancy menu’s (complete with tassel), my wife opened hers only to find a cockroach staring her in the face from the fold in the page. With a grand flourish she rose, throwing the menu to the floor all the while swearing in perfect Spanish and stomping on the poor menu in efforts to squash our uninvited dinner guest. Considering that my wife’s family was German on both sides, you can imagine the added surprise on the diner’s faces who witnessed this event.

Needless to say, we went elsewhere with half the restaurant’s staff and manager following us out to the parking lot offering us their first and third born sons if we’d forgive them and come back in.

We didn’t

Bugs in the menu
A reevaluation of circumstances

By: VE

VE — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:57:55 +0000

85 bins of food cooked too long
Look at that meatloaf; now that is just wrong!
Fat people with smiles
Shoveling their piles
Please let me go, I just don’t belong.

By: madkane

madkane — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:16:09 +0000

Thanks sigg for your limerick and comments. I didn’t even know there was a British version. It sure sounds better to me, based on your description.

By: sigg

sigg — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:35:41 +0000

I just watched that episode and I think the British version is superior. The difference was that the production was obvious. Come on, the only way you could transform a restaurant in one night like that is to have premeasured everything before you even started the show and to have a massive crew put it together. In the British version, the changes to the actual restaurant are usually much more subtle.

The other difference was that Ramsey spent a lot of time on what was wrong with the restaurant rather than fixing the problem. There was almost no time dedicated to fixing what was wrong with the kitchen staff. You don’t see much of the good side of Ramsey, in which he praises when people get things right.

The big thing I missed was his return to the restaurant 1-3 months later to see how things are going. Not all of the restaurants he works with stay with his transformation and some do go under despite what he does.

It will be interesting to see whether this show will be the new standard or a deviation from his normal show.

If your restaurant’s failing then go
And apply for chef Ramsey’s new show.
With his ranting and raving
He’ll go about saving
Your business and lots of your dough.