'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

[paloma7]

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?

Hahaha 😝
The suckling pig is cooked on a spit and then taken to a serving area whole and carved. It’s served with apple sauce, crackling and a bread roll.
We all sat at long tables. I think it was a Friday or weekend and we watched buses arrive full of locals from other villages who also ate the piglet. It was a very social occasion.
The SP was very tasty and tender, I’m not sure the locals would have been.

This sounds like a scene from a horror film: so gruesome.

Also for clarity. We live in a Christian country. This stuff happens and like someone else said plenty of people go to a hog roast. You won’t see it in a muslim country if they are that offended by it.

Don’t like it, don’t go, don’t expect everyone else to change because of a small minority who find it offensive. This is where the damn country is breaking apart. Pandering to others.

At least it's a DEAD baby pig

Gosh you sounds like a daily mail
reader with your country breaking down pandering to others, just because people have different views to you and are expressing these views on a dicussion forum.

Asian cuisine is very pork orientated so no I don’t think it would be odd. It’s the same as someone having bacon or a pork chop just more jarring. It’s authentic and theatrical and for all I know a delicacy?

I wouldn’t order it personally but I wouldn’t leave a place over it being at another table. I was vegetarian for 8 years btw until I had to give up for health reasons.

To each their own, it just doesn’t sound like the place for you, and I get that! I would feel that way about octopus for example. Don’t know why, just gives me the heebie jeebies!

Also, I saw some wanky post on LinkedIn yesterday about someone who went to the Manchester one I think, granted there were a fair few drinks on the bill but it was £406 for 2 people! 😱

I don’t think it’s actually Muslims complaining about this - I’m sure most are well aware that pork is routinely eaten by non-Muslims!

Wouldn’t bother me at all.

I’ve just watched it , surely it was at the Asian restaurant and was just being carried through the kitchen? I saw no mention of a hog roast ? ?

Watched it and keen to go, dh saw the pig and said that would make a great corporate lunch idea. I don’t understand your issue with it. We get all our meat from a farm and drive along their very long drive to get to the butchery past all the animals who we will eventually eat. The butcher will tell us when they have a really good pig coming in next week etc. Love knowing where our meat comes from.

We had a suckling pig on a spit roast in the forest in Poland (when on holiday visiting my Polish relatives over there this summer) - granted it's not something you see here that often but still very much done in modern times lol

What's. The problem? I get fed up of vegetarians inflicting their views on others.

You’ve hit the nail on the head really
just the wrong way round

Vegetarians in the restaurant wouldn't be inflicting their views on others would they

Walking through a restaurant carrying a full animal on a platter is though.

I imagine it's all faux shock and more aimed at trying to "educate" those who make different choices to OP.

Don't walk down picadilly in London OP, and definitely not China town.

It’s surely up to the restaurant owners what their views are, what they choose to offer on the menu, and how it’s served though.

Don’t like or share their views, don’t go. Plenty of other restaurants around.

In a lot of cultures it's normal. I've been to a wedding before where one was served, it's often for special occasions. I'm a vegetarian too but I can't see how I could object in a restaurant that serves meat? I've been in one place years ago where they had a trolley and sliced the meat at your table. If you don't like the idea of people eating meat around you, go to a vegan or vegetarian restaurant?
I find it extreme to call it depraved though, that's like calling other cultures depraved for it being part of their culture. You're contradicting yourself by saying that you won't tell people what they can and can't eat but calling it that, that's surely exactly what you're doing?

Of course it is

its irrelevant to my post though

Well it’s not irrelevant because you say that walking through a restaurant with a full animal on a platter is inflicting views on others,

Their restaurant, their rules.

True, it's always someone offended on behalf of someone else.

As if Gordon Ramsey doesn't have a marketing team to do the research before opening yet another restaurant.

Erm Asia is a VERY big place, you know. And most of it isn't Muslim. 🤔

Middle Eastern restaurants tend not to serve a lot of pork to be fair.

So, to be clear, suckling pig (and also baby lamb) is not uncommon as a specialty dish in many parts of Europe.

The pig isn't slaughtered at birth, they are slaughtered before they are weaned (hence the name "suckling" pig). So some weeks old.

Not tremendously different from a roast chicken, often slaughtered at 6-8 weeks old (and pumped full of growth hormones first - which is arguably worse).

You're vegetarian and you are entitled to your views of course, but I don't think you're being entirely rational.

Nope. Just a white, british, middle aged man who remembers the 1990s and doesnt want to stop eating pork because it might offend someone

i don’t buy halal meat because I dont want to but I don’t expect it band

Agree. Its the lefty wokies who dont like it. Screw them

Not really.

You're talking about somebody choosing to go somewhere that meat is served - rather than a vegetarian or vegan restaurant - and then getting aeriated that they aren't hiding the fact that they serve meat.

I'd happily criticise a meat eater that kicks off because a vegan restaurant doesn't cater to their dietary choices by offering steaks, I'd be absolutely ridiculous to kick off that I can't get guaranteed gluten free bread from a bakery that bakes all of its bread in a single oven and there would be no merit in a complaint from somebody with a juniper allergy complaining after a visit to the Plymouth gin distillery tasting menu that couldn't guarantee that there was no juniper in any of the drinks.

Randomly... you can't eat fresh Greenland shark meat as it is poisonous to humans. However, once it has been fermented and then dried for some months, it's good to go.

Polar bear liver is too high in Vitamin A for us and also puffer fish has the potential to be lethal due to the neurotoxins it contains. It's why chefs have to train for so many years to be certified to prepare the fugu.