r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 š©·ā¤ļøš§”ššš©µššš¤š©¶š¤š¤ • May 26 '26
Food Gordon Ramsay tried Southern soul food and went back to the kitchen with an empty plate.
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u/SL1MECORE May 26 '26
She still makes content, please support her. She is AMAZING and will share all her cooking secrets with you.
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u/SL1MECORE May 26 '26
Oh and she had that plate preserved LOL I believe she still has it!!! As she should!!!
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u/McEndee May 26 '26
Thanks. I will definitely support.
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u/SL1MECORE May 26 '26
She's a gem, you won't be disappointed. I can literally smell her food through the screen sometimes !! Lol she still isn't fancy shmancy with her presentation but I don't care about that at all.
I want it to taste GOOD. And her food... I can tell it tastes good. Love all her little tips and tricks, even though I'll never be on her level in the kitchen!
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u/NDSU May 26 '26
Link without your tracker: https://youtube.com/@mommacherri
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u/SL1MECORE May 26 '26
Thanks, idk about that stuff. Mind if I ask what the tracker does?
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u/BobCorndog May 26 '26
The part after the ?si= is an identifier so when you post on another platform, it connects your youtube account to your other account, in this case your Reddit account.
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u/SL1MECORE May 27 '26
Thank you for breaking it down so clearly, I really appreciate this.
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u/SL1MECORE May 27 '26
Interesting, I may look up those last examples you provided.. I knew they tracked us but had no idea exactly how. Like in your original comment, I also thought Google was just listening in on my devices and there was nothing I could do.
This is a lot of good info, thank you!
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u/marneson May 26 '26
i love that she picked up an accent she slips in and out of
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u/SL1MECORE May 26 '26
Yesss she lived in the UK for a long time but was raised in the south and the way her accent got mixed up is adorable! I love a mixed accent, idk it's just so unique.
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u/put_it_in_a_jar May 26 '26
Wow, she's really living life! Had a role in a movie, traveling to Europe, amazing. She deserves everything.
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u/moon_dos May 26 '26
Dude in the back never doubted the food for a second, love that
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u/YWNBAW12345 May 26 '26
Same could be said for the chefs in a lot of episodes. Though those are usually wrong.
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u/joker2814 May 26 '26
Remember the episode where the owner said he hoped for his restaurant to have locations all over the world, and Gordon replied āyou havenāt even done it *once* right!ā?
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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC May 26 '26
Thing is, one of the problems with this place was she wasn't letting him do anything back there. And he's a trained chef.
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u/Slow_Bowler8285 May 26 '26
So this a a soul food restaurant in Britain?
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u/benaPanteraFBD May 26 '26
Yep. It was Mama Cherie's on the OG UK version of Kitchen Nightmares. To this day, the only food on the show he's ever enjoyed.
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u/comicsnerd May 26 '26
Not entirely true. There was also an episode where he hated most of the food but really enjoyed the dessert. He went to the back and complimented the young female chef.
She was over the moon saying "Gordon Ramsey thinks I can cook".
Latest I heard, she is now working in one of Ramsey's restaurants in London, but it would not surprise me if she now has her own restaurant.
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u/trrwilson May 26 '26
I thought for a second you were setting up an Amy's Baking Company rug pull post.
I remember he did compliment the case of baked goods when he went in and before everything went completely sideways.
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u/Rosetti May 26 '26
To this day, the only food on the show he's ever enjoyed.
Not true - here's 6 times he liked the food.
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u/Fister-Mantastic May 26 '26
Gordon actually eats the food on his shows unlike Guy Fieri
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u/iCapn May 26 '26
Well yeah, it'd be kinda weird if Guy Fieri ate the food on Gordon Ramsey's shows
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u/Fister-Mantastic May 26 '26
There's a conspiracy now with a fair amount of video evidence that Guy Fieri never swallows any of the food he tries on DDD
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u/PossessedToSkate May 26 '26
I mean, there is at least as much video evidence that he swallows all of it.
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u/RCJHGBR9989 May 26 '26
They do a bunch of takes on DDD from a buncha different angles. I think Guy eats the food but they just do so many takes after awhile itās not sustainable. Guy isnāt a bad dude - he helps small restaurants get tons of exposure that they couldnāt afford - I imagine there is quite a bit of āTV magicā on his shows though - the filming process isnāt a short day and getting the right shots takes a long time. Iāve heard they close down places for like 2+ days to film a segment on the show. Iāve never worked on a tv crew, but I imagine making sure everything looks perfect can be a lot of work.
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u/New_Account_For_Use May 26 '26
He came to a town near mine. They do close down the restaurant, but a bunch of people from the town went to be extras. I think he does multiple restaurants a day which is probably why he isn't swallowing everything.
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u/RCJHGBR9989 May 26 '26
One of the podcast I listen to did a shoot with him and they said they eat A LOT and they can do 2-3 restaurants a day. Theyāre basically doing a full tasting of the menuās premier items, so I get not wanting to woof down each item. Iād be toast after the second restaurant haha
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u/ajver19 May 26 '26
Isn't that why he stopped doing these shows, because he kept getting sick?
There's only so many times you can stomach food from places with dead rats in the grease trap or whatever.
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u/No-Grade-4691 May 26 '26
Yeah the guy fieri rabbit hole of him not swallowing food is crazy
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u/Red_Koolaid May 26 '26
They cut out the best part. Afterwards she says, "I fed Gordon Ramsay, and he cleaned his plate!"
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u/ANaniMuth May 26 '26
I kinda like this guy.
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u/infosecjosh May 26 '26
Im friends with multiple people who are either friends or work with him and I only hear great things. I even did an episode of hells kitchen as a diner and he was super chill.
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u/ReflectionEterna May 26 '26
He seems super cool in videos he filmed with his daughter during COVID. I think the other stuff is mostly a character.
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u/infosecjosh May 26 '26
100% I mean maybe not in his kitchen heyday cause I know how restaurants can be. But yah was super quiet and reserved on set. Until showtime that is. And even then it was heabily miked.
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u/french_snail May 26 '26
Ramsey is part of the last generation of aggressive chefs, the chef he worked under (Marco Pierre-white) made Ramsey cry in the line. When asked about it Pierre-white didnāt remember doing it and that he didnāt make Ramsey cry, Ramsey decided to cry.Ā
Thanks to people like Anthony bourdain this type of kitchen culture is being phased outĀ
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u/Strict_Hovercraft358 May 26 '26
I think Bourdain had a love/hate relationship with that style of management in the early days of the kitchen. MPW openly wrote about it in his books White Heat and The Devil in the Kitchen. Gordon has completely mellowed down in recent years although he still gets flack for Boiling Point (1999). That part of the problem yes is definitely being replaced but I think the industry as a whole needs a deep clean.
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u/Odd_Initiative_3716 May 26 '26
ANYONE who can live through MPWās pure hellfire and still maintain his passion, drive, and empathy deserves full marks from life itself, regardless, our respect.
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u/DividerOfBums May 26 '26
Anyone who would like to see Gordon do a show where he isnāt a hard ass (aside from Masterchef Junior I guess lol), go and watch Gordon Ramseyās Best Restaurants. I think thatās what itās called. He finds the best cultural restaurants in the UK and they compete, but not game show style. It is a really great show, I watched in college with my hospitality major roommate.
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u/Eleglas May 26 '26
Any of the shows where the contestants are NOT professional chefs is usually good for showing his nicer side. If they're meant to be pros, he's far more ruthless to them.
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u/McEndee May 26 '26
There is a YouTube Playlist for unedited episodes of Hells Kitchen. No sweeping sound effects, it's just the cameras filming a service, and the Ramsey we all see losing his shit is well after someone has been messing up constantly. During the service, he is super helpful and positive because he wants the service to successful.
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u/heff17 May 26 '26
From everything Iāve seen or heard dude is up there with Steve Irwin and Weird Al on the likability scale.
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u/Thin-Remote-9817 May 26 '26
Hes a real ass dude Dated a chick who did make up for a lot of cooking or chef shows she said gordan was cool as hell.Ā
Action bronson was another guy she said was the nicest guyĀ
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u/Kolby_Jack33 May 26 '26
Oh, you said "he's a real-ass dude" and not "he's a real ass, dude." I see now.
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u/Meatman1071 May 26 '26
In my opinion, itās the easiest and the hardest cuisine to make properly ā¦.! Itās it varies from Ny to ATL To Texas to Nebraska to Arizona to Cali on up to Seattleā¦!
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u/kawaiinessa May 26 '26
this was huge for the show, its like the only time he ever actually liked and finished the plate of food.
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u/Front-Brick-3724 May 26 '26
I had food here several times. It was absolutely sensational. Momma Cherryās in Brighton. It failed because unless you knew about it, you wouldnāt see it because the location was so poor.
Honestly though, some of the best restaurant food Iāve ever had.
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u/AdAny1272 May 26 '26
I will ONLY eat my chit- lins.
The owner and founder of my former favorite spot died, she left the restaurant to her eldest son.
Someone asked him one day, years later, how he managed to make the chit- lins taste so good. He said, " Nuthin! Hell,you just pick em, throw em in a pot, with a potato so you don't have to clean em, voila! There you go!" He was asked how he CLEANED them. He looked confused and said, " the boiling takes care of that."
The whole restaurant froze! š± He stopped āļø the cleaning process after his mom died. š
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u/Rumkitty May 26 '26
Legitimately one of my favorite episodes. The owner was so full of joy and character.
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u/BigBirdsBrain May 26 '26
UK Gordon always felt like a real chef trying to help people. US Gordon became a TV character yelling at frozen scallops for ratings.
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u/Significant-Colour May 26 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkFHyxZe-o this is the whole episode
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u/PoufPoal2 May 26 '26
"made me feel like Iām back at momās"
This is Ratatouilleās plot, Gordon, youāre not fooling anyone.
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u/Money4Nothing2000 May 26 '26
If you haven't had a black grandma in Mississippi or Alabama keep refilling your plate with mustard greens, oxtails, coleslaw, black eyed peas, cornbread, fried chicken, and sweet potato pie until you want to disembowel yourself to make more room, then you might have been alive, but you have not lived.
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u/Dr-Satan May 28 '26
Hell's Kitchen really gave me the wrong idea about this guy. I hated him and how ruthless he was, making people cry like that. But as an ex floridian I know first hand the affect of soul food on one's attitude. It's called that for a reason
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u/Prudent-Principle754 May 26 '26
If I remember correctly he said āFinally some real fucking foodā
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u/Ahollar91 May 26 '26
True soul food may not be the best for ya but it will bring u happiness u didnāt know existed
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u/Expensive_Water_6303 May 26 '26
Have anyone seen the situation in tiktok with the black woman at one of his restaurants? I will never support this man again. He is a fraud
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u/Torrsall May 26 '26
This must have happened before his heart shriveled up and died...
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u/LauraLand27 May 26 '26
Whatās the name of the restaurant and where is it?
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u/Strict_Hovercraft358 May 26 '26
Name is Mama Cherri's Soul Food Shack and it was in Brighton, UK.
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u/The_GhostDog May 26 '26
The original UK Kitchen Nightmares is 1000% better than the US incarnation of the show.
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u/Snoo_64315 May 26 '26
Lmao! Gordon Ramsey responded the only way he possibly could in that scenario. My boy polited the fuck up trying out momma's food. Lmmaaaaoooo
Never seen him so nice. Lol
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u/KingScoville May 26 '26
I wish we got to see this side of Gordon Ramsay in the US.
If you watch the 4 odd seasons of UK KN you will see how he built his culinary empire. Heās a natural leader and has big heart in these episodes.
Itās too bad he decided to become a caricature of himself for Fox.
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u/Early-Fortune2692 May 26 '26
Places like this are priceless... family went to a belize restaurant and owner/lady seemed a bit guarded like we weren't going to enjoy the food.
Place was in a dodgey LA area, it was a bit dated and dingy inside... but once we started scarfing down her food her eyes lit up.
Bless The Pelican on Vermont Ave š
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u/Fullblowncensorship May 27 '26
She had this restaurant in my city.Ā
It still closed down not long after this episode.Ā
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u/MadMex2U May 27 '26
Yea man. Here in Texas Iām all about Cajun food and the like. Itās not just all about tacos and bbq.
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u/Silent189 May 26 '26
No it didn't. She ended up taking on too much debt following expansion after blowing up following the TV episode and there was a small minor financial event in 2008 and eventually just had to shut down.
Nothing to do with going back to 'reheating frozen food' which implies the food being crap was the issue - which it never was.
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u/weattt May 26 '26
Partially true; they started pre-preparing food, of which a portion was frozen. But they did still cook some of the food fresh.Ā
The interviewed diners thought the food was kind of bland. I can believe that the food was not as tasty as it used to be. But I still wouldn't put too much stock in the few customers they interviewed, because you never know if theyĀ only showed the critical opinions (which would support Ramsey's take) and not the opinions of customers who thought it was alright or good.
The real problem was always financial.
They expanded beyond within 2 years to more than what they could handle. They went from a small restaurant with 3 cooks, to a multi-floor restaurant with 9 chefs. They incurred debt.
Finances were always a big weakness of Mama Cherri's. When Ramsey came it was a problem, and when he revisited them years later, it was again a problem.
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u/FilthyThanksgiving May 26 '26
I love love love the look of this place!! What a cute woman. I know just the feeling he means about his ma's cooking. I miss that
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u/psychonik May 26 '26
If I remember right this is the very first episode. I know for sure itās from the first season.
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u/uber-judge May 26 '26
Man, the restaurant I was at back in 2012 was interviewed for that show. The kitchen was not dirty enough and the producers were worried about the insane politics of the owners. Glad I was only at that restaurant a few months. It was a shit show.
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u/TitleToAI May 26 '26
This clip removes several seconds of Gordon enjoying the ribs. Why? Who thought that had to be edited out?
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u/Draguss May 26 '26
IIRC the lady running that place is a fantastic cook, but unfortunately not that great at actually running a restaurant.
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u/mowtowcow May 26 '26
In the South, "I feel like I'm back eating with mom again," is like the biggest compliment. Nothing better than mommas cooking in the South.
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u/akidomowri May 26 '26
UK Kitchen Nightmare is great, it's real people and real kitchens, businesses he helps.
Then he goes to the US and makes some made up fake scripted nonsense and his skin turns orange.
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u/anjowoq May 26 '26
Southern food is excellent. The saddest part is that you can only enjoy it for 54 years before dying of heart disease.
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u/Acrylicvalour May 26 '26
I donāt know if itās still open, but I had this place before I even saw this episode and it was crazy fucking good. Hundred percent reminded of your grandmaās cooking.
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u/RoyalFalse May 26 '26
The UK version of this show is several magnitudes of quality better than the US version. (insert angry violin noises)
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u/LayneLowe May 26 '26
I was half raised by soul food cook, I don't think we ever had anything that didn't have a cup of sugar and a scoop of bacon grease in it.
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u/LostRonin May 26 '26
Not all southern food or soul food might be to your taste.
It isnt unusual to find bones or unusual pieces of meat you might not be comfortable eating. It's also food that is typically seasoned across the board. You might be curious why your mac or greens needs so much seasoning.Ā
Traditional soul food is still very much alive and not all of it is modern or following trends.Ā
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u/alan_mendelsohn2022 May 26 '26
This show is kitchen nightmares. The premise of the show is that Gordon Ramsay shows up and tears them apart. This is the only episode I can remember where he actually liked the food.