Chef's Special | David Mitchell's Soapbox
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2011
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David discusses the subtext of the sign 'If you are not satisfied with anything we serve, the chef will eat it himself.' Just how bad can the food be?
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"At the end of the day it's only lunch"
Wouldn't it be supper at the end of the day?
Get. Out.
Which is a good movie, you should watch it.
This has very strong Bernard from Yes, Minister vibes
@@demiseisdue It wasn't the joke, there was no joke. A joke was made out of where no joke was intended. If that was intended to be the joke then David would have done his smirky little self-correction thing and said that ad verbatim.
If you're American, I should explain that British people can't say ANYTHING without the phrase "at the end of the day" somewhere in there. It appears to be obligatory, like tomato ketchup on almost everything.
@@DieFlabbergast Occasionally when I hear this phrase I am compelled to feign interest by asking how they felt about it at the start of the day. Then whilst they wonder what the dickens in hell I'm on about, I ask myself whether a day is like a bed with two ends or whether it is like my life with just one.
"You should never go "woo" at a sandwich, it's not a 'woo' food." - That's a brilliant quote, and the tone was perfect.
I followed the advice in this video and have not said woo at a sandwich in the last nine years. Now look where we are.
@@dandominare Remember where we started out.
It was so mundanely excellent haha
It's nice you put the last line of the video in your comment. I really had something to look forward to. I hate you and have a nice day.
I'm a cook. And we know how difficult it is. And we hate it too. But the owners or kitchen managers of the establishments make us. My place of employment doesn't do sandwiches, but every time I have to send an uneatable monstrosity of a salad out there, I die a little inside. I know the bits are way too big, and I'm sorry. Please forgive us, we're only following orders :(
...that's what the nazis said
A cook, sure.
However the CHEF should have a large say in the menu.
Personally, it's not the size of the pieces in the salad that bug me (they give me a knife to cut the massive uncut leaves of lettuce or strips of chicken), it's the fact that they don't TOSS the salad before giving it to me. So I have a 100 cm² plate piled up to 20 cm high with salad and dressing on the side. How the hell do I apply the dressing? I always end up just pouring it on top and hoping enough seeps down to the bottom that it's not all dry chunks of lettuce, raddish, and cabbage.
Please, chefs, just toss the salad before bringing it to the table. It's a salad.
I can confirm. Most places these days the kitchen are slaves to management. Even the head chef, who is supposed to be Lord of the menu, has very little say.
It's no wonder a lot of chefs are alcoholics, it's hell in those kitchens
@@465marko All those poor jews forced to eat oversized sandwiches...
Wait, did I said jews? Oh God! I meant jaws. Jaws forced to eat oversized sandwiches.
Everything on my plate gets the knife and fork, that includes burgers and people trying to steal my chips.
Agreed. I once ordered a cheeseburger in a particularly popular American diner and was given something that didn't have any bells and whistles, but did - quite literally - have the same diameter as my head. I didn't know how the hell I was expected to eat the monster when I couldn't even pick it up without the contents sliding around. In the end, my friends got to have a good laugh while I slowly chipped away at it with a knife and fork.
With the Impossibly Tall Burgers, I find I generally end up holding them in such a way that the burger is scrunched together at the back while the ingredients are bulging out the front. Then, for all intents and purposes, I proceed to eat it from the inside out. It's not a very practical or elegant solution, but short of asking for a knife and fork while I deconstruct the burger into a well-presented meal, it's pretty much all I got.
This might solve a logistical problem of mine.
No one asked you and no one cares.
Rob Pegler Agreed and this is when the sandwich ingredients are inappropriately constructed, yet some establishments imagine a toothpick shoved down the middle will solve this overcrowding condiment problem... but it doesn’t and only obstructs eating midway through. Is it that complicated to correctly slice the condiments to fit into the shape of the said bun that average human hands are able to work around?
@@LemonMeIon Wait what do you consider a condiment? Surely a condiment is un-sliceable??
Daniel Dooblahvay you are allowed to wash your hands more than once a day over there right? I live in drought stricken eastern Australia (admittedly the neighbouring town did have a minor flood last week) but still I’ve eaten 6 greasey burgers in the last 48-72 hours and even with water restrictions up the ‘woo hoo sandwiches’ I’ve washed my hands 18 times... soon I will be washing my hands 6 more times... but that’s just because I’m a complete savage
These are the questions we all think, but fear to actually ask out loud because we think we're alone.
Surely, at the end of the day it's not lunch, it's supper. (Tee-hee!)
"Never go woo at a sandwich." My new moto!
I cannot adequately describe the type of laugh I did during this episode. It's too good a laugh to be defined.
Excellent as always! Nice job.
“Is it knickerbockers glory?”. 😂
Once again David Mitchell expresses what I've always thought myself.
I always get a mini davidmitchellgasm when I see a new rant video in my subscription- and that is even before I watch it. Then, while watching it, I have a full-blown davidmitchellgasm.
Funniest episode of the series so far. "I'm going to play my joker" LOL
The keying and effects are goooooood
"You should never go 'woo', at a sandwich"
I so agree.
Happy Birthday David!
This is my favourite one of this series.
happy birthday David!
He needs to borrow my other half for a meal. Having turned down a burger as it is 'unhealthy', she proceeds to first grab one of my chips, declare it tasty, then proceed to take all the bits out of the burger she likes, and at the end I am left with 3 chips and a burger that will now fit in my mouth.
I get overly furious when these things happen. Especially since I usually offer to pay for hers (that she refuses).
Plastic bag and sailor-knife - put them on your shopping list
Happy birthday Dave
WOO.
Woo foods are a new classification I will definitely use
some good bile in this one, nice work Mr Mitchell :)
I'm afraid I've never gone "woo" at any food, although I am an enthusiastic eater of various delightful foodstuffs. My general reaction to something that I know I'm going to like is to set to the eating (possibly preceded by a wide grin of anticipation.) The only "traditional" sound I'm likely to make regarding it comes afterwards in the form of an unrestrained belch of satisfaction (known in some circles as the Turkish compliment.)
hey david, happy birthday ol scout, cheers from san diego
I love tall burgers as it forces you to slow down and builds your appetite as you consider how to eat it.
on point.
That Scooby Doo size sandwich goes well with a certain sketch he was in...
Woo!
I can't decide if I've somehow missed something in life, as I have never said "Woo" about any food. I love pizza, or even a burrito with toxically hot salsa, but a vocalized "Woo" has never seemed appropriate. My suspicion is that rather than having missed something in my culinary adventures, I have rather a higher bar for "Woo"-ing. Maybe I'll start a food-blog (the best kind of blog, in my opinion), and rate things on a Zero-to-One Woo scale. "That was a fantastic soup: .85 of a Woo!". Anyone who can get a genuine Full-Woo out of me should get a prize - after all, they will have accomplished something truly miraculous. Maybe I'll take them out for a non-Woo sandwich... :)
Happy birthday
Happy birthday David we both share the same birthday , so.. Woo
finaly a good one again
The funniest one so far in my opinion :')
I had to take my headphones out for a bit, and when i put them back in that was all i heard.
I've no idea what led to it yet, but wow.
It's Knickerbockers Glory.
Great as always! And happy birthday Ginger! :) (Oh yes, I know what I am doing with the smiley lol)
Sir, any food is worthy of a woo if you're hungry enough.
I agree completely
WOOOOOO
I'd love to see more of these, but I know if they came once a week I'd be too greedy and want more more more, more frequently
I often dislocate my jaw with these sammiches
i have long wondered about the notorious "tall sandwich" conundrum. it just doesn't make sense
@SeventhEve actually, a knickerbocker glory is sort of like a a sundae. But it has jam in it instead of chocolate sauce.
I may have gone "woo" at a sandwich before now.
It's interesting that the compositing has improved somewhat since dell began sponsoring these, although these videos wouldn't lose any brilliance if it was filmed in a minimalist studio
yeah. those buns are huge. we have them here in poland as well. the monstrocities! :)
What about if all you've eaten for a month is pasta (due to being very low on funds) and someone comes up to you and goes, 'here have a bacon and egg sandwich' I think one can be permitted to woo in this sandwich situation.
9 years later. as a litchen worker I agree to this video
0:40 on... it's great!!!
What the sign is actually saying is: 'Whatever your complaint might be, you're wrong and we're right!'
I believe its Knickerbockers Glory for the same reason as Attorneys General. The Glory and the General are the Adjective and the Knickerbocker and Attorney are the noun.
Haha, have to agree with him about the burger!
WOOO Sandwich!
more peep show please.
"It's not a 'woo' food." :D
'the logistical problems of the poor sod who has to eat the food' lol
I want takeaway sandwich joints like you have in UK . we're starting to get them. I feel like thats what sushi is kinda. 7/11 over here have sandwiches in the shops and its a shame they're so expensive cause id live on sandwiches if I could. kebabs if im feeling flamboyant
I knew a guy who used to eat all kinds of crazy stuff: raw meat, his own feces, the leftover boiled stuff from making chicken stock, and of course a crack pipe
Maybe not "woo" but I've had some damn good sandwiches in my time.... A brie and bacon baguette, a NY style pastrami rye, a cheddar cheese toastie... Mmm, so many delicious options.
I wonder if they serve shopping trolleys & broken glass
Pita!!!
HAH! "Monsieux Mange Tout"
But David, is there a woo stew?
Or is that a comestible confined entirely to Blur mondegreens?
Last time I ate in a place that did tall burgers I watched everyone who got them. Its interesting. because people have to wait until the waiter has left until they will start to deconstruct their burger.
Jamie's Italian restaurants - The Italian burger
So good, but it's one of the burgers he's talking about. It comes in a tower of ingredients that's about 7 inches tall. And you have to take the stick out and deconstruct the whole thing and then attempt to reconstruct in some manner that loses some height - ANY height. You can usually succeed in getting it down to about four inches at which point you wonder if you have some kind of latent jaw-unhinging ability that can be called into play.
@Stycu yes it is. And diner is spelled with one.
The man is a modern Confucius.
I'm thinking of writing a rant on David's pronunciation of "Sam-widge".
a sandwich of scoopy doo proportions ha ha ha awesome
@noSoSolid2K or 'jello', I think they call it in the US of A. :P 'Jelly' means jam to them if I'm correct.
It's not a matter of attempting to prove the customer wrong, and say "Well I can eat this food, see it's food"! I believe it to be a matter of accountability.
Woo
no, at the end of the day it"s dinner, not lunch ;)
Scooby Doo proportions, hahaha.
David Mitchell should meet Epic Meal Time
Sound advice there for anybody's future. "Don't go woo at a sandwich"
Please ! Someone tell that to the people who make the adverts for Subway - please !
of course, a few mates could troll the chef by complaining about half a dozen ultraburgers at the same time😉
EXTRA! EXTRA! SANDWICH NOT 'WOO FOOD' CLAIMS MITCHELL!
If you've ever been to Katz's or the Carnegie Deli in NY, you know the best course of action is to buy a loaf of bread before you enter, order a Pastrami on Rye, and subdivide it into normal sandwiches you will be able to enjoy for the next twenty days.
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but that means eating crap corn syrupy american 'bread' sorry sweet brioche my bad 🤮
@@alan-sk7ky We have _every_ kind of bread in America.
@sam91832 very true :P
@mark1jz I struggle to keep the filling in a subway sandwich so god knows whot would happen with a baguette with all 4 sides open, especially if it is a crusty baguette, not only would I loose most of the filling I would struggle to get through to the filling in the first place. I guess the big rule is that if your baguette or tower looks exactly like the picture in the sandwich shop window or menu the filling will be gone in a matter of seconds :)
would he eat the food on your plate or cook up another version of the same dish? what if the customer claiming they didnt like the food, drooled all over it before hand? scary claim if you ask me! haha some good points though! the scooby doo sandwich was actually made in the mitchell and webb look sketch...i wonder how it was eaten after they all didnt go "woo"
Trying to call David Mitchell "Dave" just doesn't work; "Dave"'s are too common.
He deserves his full name, it works that way :D
That thing about hamburgers!! Hamburgers are inedible in restaurants.
Ha, Ha Ha .... LOL!!!!!!!!!
When is your next date at the Royal Albert Hall, I want to tell all my friends about this great comedy gold I've discovered.
The layers of subtlety are sublime here ..... All the thumbs up!!!!!! I'm jealous.
I so want to eat at Mitchell's Diner.
Best rant of the series so far.
and i agree those burgers are seriously difficult to eat
Theres a resturaunt near where i live that served what they call the "mountain" burger. Id say it resembles one. Tasted great but only after id dislocated my jaw trying to eat the damm thing.
at the end of the day it's only lunch? i don't know about most people but i strongly suspect that like me, they eat their lunch in the middle of the day, and towards the end of the day could only be found consuming their tea or a quick supper before bed.
"... It's not a woo food." What if it's a Woo Sandwich?
You could woo the sandwich AFTER the first bite not before.
I like food. I eat most days, but rather rarely in a restaurant. I don't much go for oversized portions. I had a "Woody Allen" at the Carnigie Deli in New York. Fresh and tasty, but unnecessarily oversized. Just an oversized sandwich.
@crazyfunguyphil7 those aren't adjectives, they're nouns as well.
@mustardflag It's an inevitability of continuing the series. Every episode of the first run had a wide, popular subject, but eventually you run out of them and you're left with more specific, niche ones.
You should never go 'woo' at a sandwich.