How do you melt the heart of one of the industry's bad boys, Gordon Ramsay?
Write him a limerick of course, silly!
At the launch of contract caterer Aramark's innovation centre, housed in the London Underwriting Centre in the City, one female guest's slightly suspect prose was enough delivered face-to-face to the guest star big Gord. to render him momentarily, uncharacteristically, speechless.
Of course, Mr Ramsay is never speechless for long and after a split second accepted the invitation to visit Portsmouth naval base, which had come with the performance of the limerick, and told the person to **** off because she was scaring him. Normality restored.
Kitchen Rat has of course obtained a copy of the work that penetrated the steely chef's guard and can reveal its earth shattering beauty and artifice below. If music be the food of love, play on:
Gordon is a well cool dude, He whips up some cracking food, So come to HMS Nelson soon, And sort out the dull Ward room.
Whether this will make it onto the menus at Ramsay's planned third pub in Chiswick as the sort of endorsement Michelin simply can't supply remains to be seen.
Comments (1)
Gordon Ramsay is just the bloke for whom I would write a four-line limerick. He's got some basic talent, some bull, some Michelin inspectors in his pockets and plenty of wonga. That's four. What he doesn't have is creativity. That's what makes a limerick (a five-line poem in which lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme and shorter lines 2 and 3 rhyme separately).
Posted by Mike Green | June 29, 2007 11:42 AM
Posted on June 29, 2007 11:42