I prefer Gordon Ramsey’s content outside of the US better because he is often less angry for angriness sake, and often because someone is doing something that will get someone sick or hurt. To me, that is what healthy anger looks like. An alert system that drives you to make changes and demand changes of others for the benefit and safety of everyone.
That probably isn’t worded the best, and I am no philosopher or psychiatrist, but it is a worldview that has been healthy and helpful for me.
I will keep saying this:
Socioeconomically disadvantaged young dudes are angry.
Instead of broadly shaming them for that, relate to that anger, temper it, show them how to use it in a controlled manner, and point it toward something useful, constructive.
Give them a rules-based, defined, productive outlet for it.
If you just tell them to bottle it up… they will eventually explode, and cause collateral damage.
How sad is it that a goofily angry man on the TV is a better parent than anon’s parents?
Well, it doesn’t matter how sad it is, because most parents these days are working too many jobs for not enough money, to even possibly be decent parents.
Thats just reality.
… You wanna beat the fascists at their game of weaponizing male insecurity and angst?
Provide a better version of channeling that insecurity and angst: Give them a framework for thinking and acting that they can channel the anger and energy into genuienly useful and productive forms.
Actually show them a positive, socially beneficial form of masculinity, that gives them their own identity, instead of a cultic group identity.
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
No, the fascists scapegoat minorities and direct that rage towards them. Rage can be sated vicariously and ICE, the police, and the military provide that when they are vicious to out groups. It functions like bottling it up in the long run though because that violence doesn’t resolve any of the actual sources of that rage. Relief doesn’t require an outlet for the rage but a resolution for its source.
Fake: man, how do you even eat a pumpkin?
Gay: me, and also I’m a lesbian that can’t cook so I don’t fucking know
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
I make my scrambled eggs the way he does
+1
I saw that video at least 10 years ago and can’t bring myself to do it any other way.
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.
I always make my grilled cheese sandwich the way he does
I, too, yell, “Fuck off, you donkey” at the egg carton until the eggs come out.
His voice demonstrating that on TV is always on my mind when making scrambled eggs.
Never stop stirring. Never stop! NEVER STOP!
Angry?
The secret trick is to scramble them.
And how is that?
Good amount of butter in a warm pan, crack in 3 eggs, don’t bother to whisk them. Just fuck them about with the spatula directly in the pan to scramble them. Keep them moving, keep stirring and scraping, moderate the heat by taking the pan off the burner. When they start to come together, add 1/4 cup of cream or sour cream, continue bothering the eggs until the consistency is how you like it. I like them fairly moist, but firm enough to stand up in a pile. Season, put over toast.
I like Worcestershire sauce and Apricot jam on my scramble eggs, I know that sounds treasonous but it’s good
I dump them in a measuring beaker with melted butter and microwave for two 60 second stretches, whisking in between with a fork 😁 So fancy
I mean generally the secret to making anything good is to make it 20-60% butter and then add heavy cream.
the things you can get away with when you have socialized healthcare
Just avoid sugar and you’re fine
That’s a dessert, not a meal.
My mom is from North England, so that’s just how all our meals are. Auntie Elizabeth always said “butter makes everything better”
“butter makes everything better”
I originally read this as “butter makes everything butter”
Including margarine
Don’t tell me how to live my life
The whole thing sounds treasonous.
Eh, I make eggs following Ramsay’s general directions. His recipe is more for creamy scrambled. I just use a less butter and cream. The eggs still come out fluffy, light and more creamy than normal. Like greentext, I have received several complements on how they turn out. Except I don’t put jam on them.
Pumpkin soup fucking slaps!
I found the recipe! Might try my hand at it, it’s Autumn here and the recipe looks good. (I might end using butternut squash instead though.)
When I try my hand I always end with nut on my squash too.
Look, it might be fake, but these stories annoy me because the way people are treated by their family influences their behaviour. “For once my family isn’t angry with me” - the same story everywhere. NEETs idn’t stand a chance
fake - annon’s family is definitely still disappointed in them
gay - doing things for other people
Gay: anon likes Gordon Ramsay
Double Gay: anon cooks
Fake: anon’s family isn’t angry or disappointed
I find it soooo weird that people say cooking is a womans job (it should just be who ever likes cooking job), but in most parts of the world, men are dominantly the people who do the cooking in professional and home environments. I love cooking and my partner loves the chemistry of baking, else we would just have a cabinet of craft dinners and ramen (not that we dont have those on hand).
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.
That’s actually most of the relationships my friends are in as well. The guys do most of the cooking. And honestly in this day where women have higher degrees and are getting better paying jobs, cooking is essentially the bare minimum for most guys to get a girlfriend.
