The Plonker Club

In what is no doubt some of the most distressing news that I have heard this year, rumours are circulating the internet that Gordon Ramsay will not be making any more Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

The original quote comes from The Sun newspaper in the UK and according to them Gordon Ramsay said “If the restaurants succeed, there’s no praise. If they’re screwed, we’re blamed and get lawyers’ letters,” he said.

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With a catch cry of “Shak’s too small, House’s too big” – one of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ favourite characters is back with Momma Cherri’s Speakeasy (did anyone actually think that she wouldn’t keep fighting for her dream?? She was one of the only people in the history of Kitchen Nightmares to have Gordon ramsay eat all of her food!!).

Momma Cherri has had her ups and downs, but she is back with her new establishment formerly known as the G-Lounge at 43 Providence Place in Brighton. For those who know the local area it is behind the London Road, next to the old Woolworths’ building and has easy access to Buses, Brighton Mainline Rail Station, A23, A27 as well as secure car parking 100 metres away.

Here’s how Momma Cherri’s website (http://www.mommacherri.co.uk/) describes the new venue; Read more…

For all of us whose local programmers don’t allow us to see all of Gordon Ramsay’s shows any time near their original airing, have to date had to really on the internet, whther it be torrents or video sites like Youtube. But as Youtube cracks down on copyrighted materials – access is getting harder and harder, unless your local broadcasters also broadcasts on the internet (usually only within the home country though)!

To the rescue come Channel 4, the UK station which airs almost all of Gordon Ramsay’s television shows (and was one of the first to also streamshows over the web). There is talk of a deal with youtube to display contents of Channel 4’s catch up service, 4oD, via the now Google-owned YouTube. Read more…

Cool video taking the piss out of Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares – it’s very funny and does make a few valid points!!

Enjoy

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

It seems that the News of the World has a hard-on for Gordon Ramsay – and at every opportunity the are trying to F#$k him with it.

The latest shameless attempt was to cherry pick quotes from restaurant owners featured on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares to make it look like Gordon Ramsay himself was the failure! Even some chefs that have had mostly good things to say about Gordon Ramsay and the show were only credited with negative comments – including Alan Love of what became Love’s Fish Restaurant and Momma Cherri of Soul Food Shack fame.

The one-eyed article can be found at http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/240947/Two-thirds-of-the-restaurants-saved-by-TVrsquos-Ramsayrsquos-Kitchen-Nightmares-amp-chef-Gordon-Ramsay-shut-or-sold.html

Luckily the public at large have disagreed with the article and rightly pointed out many of the flaws in the story – as shown by the comments associated with the original article.

Some of the biggest losers that appeared on the show were Gordon’s friend Francesco from the Walnut Tree Inn and that knob from the Granary (who is suspected of burning down his own restaurant). These clowns were never going to succeed with their attitudes and were looking for a scapegoat from day one. Other just had poor businesses and couldn’t follow instructions as evidenced in the revisits.

I’m still amazed by the number of restaurant owners who bagged Gordon Ramsay for upsetting their existing customer base – didn’t they called him in because they were going broke?? Scott from The Priory (the big church restaurant) was a prime example – as are most of the US episodes!

While some of the criticsms of editing may be warranted (especially in the US version) other problems within the business are highlighted upon Gordon’s return (hey, they let him back, they couldn’t have hated him too much!). There is another problem with the US version of Kitchen Nightmares(besides being vastly inferior and focussing on makeover and conflicts) – namely that the episodes aired so long after the shooting (inlcuding one episode we didn’t see in the most recent series), they couldn’t benefit from the publicity (which is no doubt part of the lure of applying).

Hey, Gordon Ramsay isn’t perfect and maybe some of his ideas across all of these restaurants may not have been winners, but for someone with no vested interest in their success, he certainly appeared to be the most passionate person on almost every episode!

News Of The World have once again demonstrated what piss-poor and shockingly biased reporting can look like – I’m sure they’ll never learn as long as people keep buying their special version of crap!

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite