Pizza that looks like used toilet paper and inventing a takeout puke box. Gordon
Ramsay tastes his fair share of bad food, but there's some that he straight up just can't eat.
Pizza is one of the most popular foods in America, but favorite pizza toppings vary from person to
person. And one of the most hotly debated pizza toppings is pineapple. This debate has raged on
for years now with people arguing whether the topping should actually go on pizza or not.
Because he is highly opinionated, especially when it comes to food, Gordon Ramsay has shared his
take on whether pineapple belongs on pizza multiple times. In 2017, while hosting his
one-season talk show "The Nightly Show," the chef ordered pizza. He asked the audience for
flavor suggestions while ordering pizza, and he was not pleased with one of the responses.
"How many pepperonis now-?" "You don't put pineapple on a f—--- pizza."
Ramsay must fancy himself a pizza aficionado because he has a chain of
pizzerias called Street Pizza. The website describes the restaurants by saying -
Apparently, it does not follow Ramsay's rule about pineapple on pizza, because it sells
a ham and pineapple option. So it seems that Ramsay won't eat a pineapple pizza,
but he will make some money off of one.
If you've taken a long enough flight, you've likely experienced the atrocity that is airplane
food. Plane food is typically a reheated meal that has a rubbery texture, but since our options are
pretty limited while we're flying through the air, most of us make do and suffer through it. However,
Gordon Ramsay absolutely refuses to eat plane food. As Ramsay told Refinery 29 in an interview -
Instead, Ramsay likes to eat prior to boarding and have something like
Italian meats, red wine, fruits and cheese.
Ramsay isn't the only one who's against eating plane food. Reader's Digest noted
that we should all avoid eating on planes if we can. Apparently, it can make jet lag even worse.
If you want to avoid that, follow Ramsay to a nice Italian place prior to boarding.
In addition to his refined taste, Gordon Ramsay is perhaps even more well-known for
his intensity in the kitchen. Ramsey puts his temper on full display in "Hell's Kitchen,"
where he regularly berates the chefs who present dishes to him. In one episode
he came across a food pairing he had never heard of and quite frankly had no time for.
When one cook brought him a dish of chicken and blackberries,
Ramsay promptly asked where the idea came from, to which the cook shared
that it was a dish she prepared while working at her corporate dining job.
"That's definitely corporate. You serve, they eat."
"Yes chef."
"Straight after, they vomit."
"Yes chef."
Ramsay isn't totally against either aspect of the dish,
as he's got plenty of chicken recipes and serves his famous beef Wellington
with a blackberry sauce. Just don't combine the two when he's around.
Gordon Ramsay's career has taken him all over the world, and in "Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted,"
his television series with National Geographic, the chef has traveled to remote places like the
Sacred Valley of Peru and mountains in Morocco to learn what the people who inhabit those areas eat.
In one episode, the people he visited cooked
bugs for Ramsay. Before serving Ramsay some, one man told him -
Ramsey must not have cared about the amount of protein in the bugs,
because he couldn't handle eating the food and spat it out, saying -
The people were right about one thing, though: Bugs are a great source of
protein. Per the Food Science of Animal Resources, the average protein content of
an edible insect is higher than the protein content of plant-based sources like cereal,
soybeans, and lentils, and some insects are even higher in protein than meat and
chicken eggs. Though eating bugs is not a common practice in the United States,
many people in other parts of the world, like Asia and Africa, eat bugs on a regular basis.
Gordon Ramsvay has long been passionately against
plant-based food. In 2007, he famously told the Mirror -
But over time, Ramsay's attitude toward vegetarianism, and even veganism,
has changed. However, there was one vegetarian meal that he could not stomach,
and that was a carrot gratin on an episode of "Kitchen Nightmares."
Even before his change in opinion, Ramsay wasn't fully against vegetarian dishes - if
they were done properly. Unfortunately, the carrot gratin did not have what Ramsay was
looking for, and he spat it out before swallowing it, saying of the dish -
"It's almost a bit of an insult to a vegetarian."
Over a decade after proclaiming a vegetarian child was his worst nightmare, Ramsay is more
than willing to eat plant-based foods. In fact, he's even said on an episode of Masterchef -
"After all these years, I can finally admit that I actually love vegan food." "Wow."
In another episode of "Kitchen Nightmares," Gordon Ramsay was
fed the restaurant's fisherman's platter, which consisted of scallops, flounder,
and shrimp, and Ramsay was not a fan. The waiter stood watch, and when she
saw him spit the food out, she returned to ask his opinion and he didn't hold back.
"No good chef?"
"Soft, bland, rubbery, I didn't realize it could be this bad. Thank you." "Okay."
Other dishes he tried at the restaurant included French onion soup and shepherd's pie,
and though Ramsay didn't like either dish, he did manage to swallow both.
One of the owners took Ramsay's opinion particularly hard, saying -
"You're here 16 years so you think your food is decent. To hear otherwise, it's kind of shocking."
If you'd like to try some fish that Ramsay does like, you can try one of his chain restaurants,
Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips. There are multiple locations across the United States,
and the menu features cod, lobster, shrimp,
and more prepared in fashions that we imagine Ramsay will not spit out.
In addition to knowing good food, Gordon Ramsay has made himself an expert on all things luxury,
and he aired his opinions on the television show "Hotel Hell."
The show was only broadcast for three seasons, but while it was on the air,
Ramsay visited different hotels to advise changes meant to improve their operations.
In one episode, Ramsay arrived at his room and almost immediately ordered room service to judge
the quality of the food. When it arrived, Ramsay's first complaint was the packaging of the food,
being confused as to why it came in a takeout box. Nevertheless, Ramsay continued eating.
After pouring his soup out of a takeout box and into a porcelain cup, Ramsay tried
the chicken parmesan slider - and promptly spat it back into the takeout box, saying -
"That's dreadful. F--- me. Now I know why they got the boxes. It's a takeaway puke box."
This episode was filmed in 2012 at The Keating Hotel in San Diego, California,
and per Yelp, the establishment is now closed.
Gordon Ramsay is known for his television projects, but he'll use any medium he can
to critique another cook's work. Ramsay has over 34 million followers on TikTok, and he
uses his profile to duet videos and offer his unsolicited opinions on random users' food. Some
of his harshest critiques have been on foods one might deem creative, like a Cheeto-covered steak.
But his aversion to overly creative foods long predates the video-sharing app.
On the same episode of "Hotel Hell" featuring Gordon's newly patented takeaway puke box,
Ramsay ate at a restaurant called Merk, a short walk away from the hotel. For dessert,
he was served bacon and chocolate pizza, which did not appetize him.
"It's like we've had a crisis with the toilet
paper department. Someone's wiped their a-- with my dough."
After taking a bite, Ramsay let his actions speak
for themselves by spitting it out to show his distaste for the culinary concoction.
Gordon Ramsay is very specific about spices,
and that includes salt. Salt is a kitchen staple, but it shouldn't be overused,
especially around Ramsay, who is very sensitive to food that's too salty.
In one episode of "Hell's Kitchen," Ramsay proved just how much he hates food with too much salt.
After trying a dish of macaroni and cheese, Ramsay spat out the noodles and called all of his kitchen
staff to gather around. He had every cook taste the dish so they could see why he was disgusted.
Most cooks agreed with Ramsay that the dish was far too salty and the chef
was determined to discover who had made the error. One cook, Michelle,
admitted to adding some extra salt, and as a result, another chef had to prepare a new batch.
Michelle apparently had a habit of oversalting her food. In another episode that same season,
the cook put too much salt in a spinach dish. Although Ramsay didn't try the dish himself,
another member of his kitchen had clearly taken cues from the chef and
yelled at Michelle for her mistake. Hating things over salted so much
that someone else yells at the person responsible? That's a strong hatred.
Although Gordon Ramsay spits out a lot of the food he tastes,
we do have to give him credit for at least trying the dishes. Whether he is eating
disgusting food on a late-night television show segment or putting food in his mouth
that we wouldn't want to eat ourselves, the man is not afraid to try terrible things.
He has, however, shared that there are some foods he just will not eat.
For example, Ramsay said on Reddit that he drew the line at eating overcooked food,
but apparently the line was redrawn when he told Bon Appétit that he wouldn't
eat any kind of ready made frozen food. Ramsay explained his decision by saying -
Viewers saw Ramsay's disdain for frozen meals in an episode of
"Kitchen Nightmares." After rummaging through the restaurant's freezers and
finding copious amounts of pre-made frozen food, Ramsay was incensed.
"It's just absolutely appalling. This is not a restaurant. You are mad."
One of Gordon Ramsay's best traits is his honesty. He never holds back. On an
episode of "Kitchen Nightmares," Ramsay was fed a seafood crêpe,
and in his regular fashion, he shared his exact thoughts on the dish, saying -
"That is hideous. Its, it's hot in parts, like in the middle, but on the side, they're stone cold."
The waiter returned to take the food away after seeing Ramsay wasn't pleased,
and the famous chef took the opportunity to ask an important question.
"Is the oven not working?"
Unfortunately for the restaurant, the oven was working just fine - the head chef's dishes, not
so much. We're guessing that the next time Ramsay is going to eat a crêpe, it'll be his own recipe.