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'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

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paloma7 · 27/02/2026 17:10

Ffs! I'm just watching this Netflix show about Gordon Ramsay and his opening of a new restaurant with amazing views in the city. I'm not interested in him particularly, but thought I might go to this 'Lucky Cat' just for the views over London, if and whenever it opens.

BUT - then there is a scene where he is consulting with his head chef about the menu and there is a whole dead baby suckling pig on a plate. They are talking about making this a restaurant feature, requiring two chefs who carve it at your table.

AIBU to think this is obscene? Yes, I'm vegetarian, but I think even most meat eaters would balk at this?

If I were in his restaurant and that was going at the the next table, I would leave. Wtf is wrong with humans?

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faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:09

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:08

Oh, now you’re pretending to be offended to avoid the point.

Unawareness of mortality is no justification for causing an individual harm.

If we ever decide to breed human babies for food, will killing them suddenly become acceptable?

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Why not, if they're lab bred and raised specifically for that purpose?

Pigs raised for slaughter only exist because we decided to keep them here as a species - they wouldn't be frolicking around a field living a happy life otherwise, they'd never exist to begin with.

AlcoholicAntibiotic · 27/02/2026 19:09

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:08

Oh, now you’re pretending to be offended to avoid the point.

Unawareness of mortality is no justification for causing an individual harm.

If we ever decide to breed human babies for food, will killing them suddenly become acceptable?

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Do you really see no moral difference between cannibalism and eating meat from a different species?

Hedgesandbutterflies · 27/02/2026 19:09

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:08

I definitely read this as "you can buy frozen human brain" at first 😂

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🙈

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 27/02/2026 19:08

Sagealicious · 27/02/2026 19:06

Yep shark is used here in Australia and is known as flake. Quite nice too.

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I used to love "rock salmon" from the chippy, I think that was a variety of shark.
It had one central gelatinous bone, so easy to eat & delicious.

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:08

Hedgesandbutterflies · 27/02/2026 19:07

Youbcan buy frozen in many halal butchers. As well as lamb testicles

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I definitely read this as "you can buy frozen human brain" at first 😂

Tableforjoan · 27/02/2026 19:08

faerylights · 27/02/2026 18:55

Interesting, I've never heard of dorado.

Kangaroo is probably one of my favourites - I had a delicious kangaroo steak in Sydney once, served in a lovely restaurant by the beach!

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Kangaroo is lovely. I agree.

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:08

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:04

Are human babies bred and raised to be killed for food? No?

Then they're not comparable to pigs, whose only purpose is to be killed.

It's also incredibly offensive of you to bring people with intellectual disabilities into this discussion.

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Oh, now you’re pretending to be offended to avoid the point.

Unawareness of mortality is no justification for causing an individual harm.

If we ever decide to breed human babies for food, will killing them suddenly become acceptable?

Hedgesandbutterflies · 27/02/2026 19:07

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 27/02/2026 19:00

I'm curious about the human brain being toxic.

I love lambs' brains, but haven't had them since holidays in Rome & Oz. Wish I could still buy them in UK like I used to.

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Youbcan buy frozen in many halal butchers. As well as lamb testicles

Sagealicious · 27/02/2026 19:06

Calliopespa · 27/02/2026 18:48

I think a lot of chip shops actually use shark.

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Yep shark is used here in Australia and is known as flake. Quite nice too.

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:06

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:05

No one said that. You are the metaphorical pigeon shitting on a chess board.

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Okay love, whatever you say, I'm bored of irritating you now 😂

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:05

Puzzledandpissedoff · 27/02/2026 19:05

Dorado is also called mahi mahi, @faerylights ... maybe you've heard of iy by that name?

Ooh I have, thank you!

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:05

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:01

You're the one trying to tell me that piglets and human babies are the same thing when they quite clearly aren't.

Unless, like I said above, you genuinely think a grown human is the same as a grown adult pig?

Baby piglets are also bred and raised specifically to be killed for meat. Humans are not. HTH.

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No one said that. You are the metaphorical pigeon shitting on a chess board.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 27/02/2026 19:05

Dorado is also called mahi mahi, @faerylights ... maybe you've heard of iy by that name?

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:04

PinkyFlamingo · 27/02/2026 19:00

There is nothing wrong with meat eaters.

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Uncontrollable global warming, ocean collapse, and deforestation will tell you otherwise.

Meat eaters would rather die than save our only habitable planet.

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:04

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:03

Have you not heard of profound intellectual disabilities? The point is that unawareness of one’s mortality is not justification for harming them.

Therefore, your reason for the killing of pigs being acceptable is either not that, or you’re a hypocrite.

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Are human babies bred and raised to be killed for food? No?

Then they're not comparable to pigs, whose only purpose is to be killed.

It's also incredibly offensive of you to bring people with intellectual disabilities into this discussion.

Liminal1975 · 27/02/2026 19:03

Tell me you're a townie without telling me you're a townie.

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:03

faerylights · 27/02/2026 18:57

Except human babies grow to become aware of it, pigs don't and never will.

Stop trying to compare human beings to pigs - it makes you look very silly.

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Have you not heard of profound intellectual disabilities? The point is that unawareness of one’s mortality is not justification for harming them.

Therefore, your reason for the killing of pigs being acceptable is either not that, or you’re a hypocrite.

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:01

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:00

Humans are animals.

Your assertion is that pigs are different from humans because they have no awareness of their own mortality. When it’s been pointed out to you that neither do some humans, you’ve completely avoided the point. You’re not debating because you simply can’t.

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You're the one trying to tell me that piglets and human babies are the same thing when they quite clearly aren't.

Unless, like I said above, you genuinely think a grown human is the same as a grown adult pig?

Baby piglets are also bred and raised specifically to be killed for meat. Humans are not. HTH.

gingercat02 · 27/02/2026 19:00

It's very common in Spain to have a whole suckling pig. I have eaten it, very tasty

crazeekat · 27/02/2026 19:00

paloma7 · 27/02/2026 17:23

I am vegetarian but I'm not going to tell other people what they can or can't eat.

What I find obscene is the making a spectacle of the whole dead animal. Like it's supposed to be a 'wow' factor. What can possibly be 'wow' about a baby pig, slaughtered at birth. To me, it's totally unnecessary and actually depraved.

Honestly, I am a meat eater. And I really wouldn’t like to see it either, it not nice to look at but thats purely my guilty conscience coming into play.

PinkyFlamingo · 27/02/2026 19:00

paloma7 · 27/02/2026 17:17

Are these baby pigs slaughtered the minute they are born? How is this considered appetising in any shape or form? What is wrong with people?

There is nothing wrong with meat eaters.

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 27/02/2026 19:00

DrPrunesqualer · 27/02/2026 18:57

Just
don’t eat the brain
keep the baby in a safe environment to avoid picking up toxins

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I'm curious about the human brain being toxic.

I love lambs' brains, but haven't had them since holidays in Rome & Oz. Wish I could still buy them in UK like I used to.

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:00

AlcoholicAntibiotic · 27/02/2026 19:00

Lidl used to sell both kangaroo and ostrich

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Damn, no Lidl anywhere near us :(

ChattyCatty25 · 27/02/2026 19:00

faerylights · 27/02/2026 18:45

What inconsistency?

Animals aren't humans and I'm not going to try and debate with people who are ridiculous enough to believe they're the same.

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Humans are animals.

Your assertion is that pigs are different from humans because they have no awareness of their own mortality. When it’s been pointed out to you that neither do some humans, you’ve completely avoided the point. You’re not debating because you simply can’t.

faerylights · 27/02/2026 19:00

DrPrunesqualer · 27/02/2026 18:57

Just
don’t eat the brain
keep the baby in a safe environment to avoid picking up toxins

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Except human babies aren't piglets and this weird insistence that they are is very odd.

Unless you think you are the same as an adult pig, of course.

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