Sentence from a story in today's comic about violence and bullying by top restaurant chefs:
'The call followed a violent incident earlier this year at Le Pré Catalan, a Paris restaurant with three Michelin stars, in which a chef de partie deliberately, and repeatedly, scalded his kitchen assistant with a white-hot spoon on the arm.'
'Scalded'? 'White-hot'?
OFFS...
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Reminds me of a incident at sea,my age at that time 14 or 15.
One of the crew fell out with the ships cook something about the food.
Cook took offence and chased the crewmember with a kitchen knive.The Old man had to part the two by banging their heads together which calmed the situation.>:)
Moral of the story don't argue with a cook.True story my old man didn't take any prisoners.
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Should-know-betters like that are even creeping in at the BBC, AC. There's the silly journalese - 'blaze', 'blast', 'walk out', that no real person ever uses. And then there are the ones I suspect they do on purpose.
A police source told the BBC...
Looks fine, until you read it out on the radio.
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At least if he is threatening you with a knife, you know where you stand. Chefs/cooks have many less immediate (and hygenic) ways of getting their own back on unsuspecting diners.
ok this one is urban myth, but plenty of others exist!
urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/olive_garden.htm
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I should perhaps have made clear that the ignorant foreigners I refer to may in some cases be English, but in any case are the lowly interns used by the comic to do sub-editing at budget rates. They seem to be youngish people whose first language is some form of English, but whose general knowledge and command of the language are pitiful.
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Where do they find these ignorant foreigners? - Dutchie
