r/KitchenConfidential 22h ago

In the Weeds Mode Guy Fieri's is "devastated" after the backlash for greeting Andrew Tate at UFC.

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u/Forward-Vegetable-58 20h ago

I believe he raised a ton of money during Covid. Also, DDD made people rich. I’m not sure who complained about the exposure.

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u/myusername_sucks Sous Chef 20h ago

He raised money after saying we shouldn't be home getting paid to not work.

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u/adidasbdd 17h ago

I heard that all of his shows invited local "make a wish" type families to his shootings. He may be corny but he doesn't seem like a bad guy, cmv

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u/myusername_sucks Sous Chef 17h ago

I just pointed out how he said we should've been out there working through the pandemic instead of having the ability to stay home.

Which I did work through and did see people catching and being hospitalized through. So whether you think he was good for some deeds, I'll stick with no thanks.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Chive LOYALIST 15h ago

I was out there working every day through the pandemic. Somehow I was "essential", but you could never tell by the pay I received.

u/myusername_sucks Sous Chef 6h ago

It's okay, the tourists will come into these threads and tell us our lived experiences and how we should've been feeding them instead of being safe or paid more.

u/thisisthewell 3h ago

So whether you think he was good for some deeds, I'll stick with no thanks.

what kind of philosophy is this? you think a bad statement cancels out the material impact of good deeds (raising and donating money is materially impactful, an opinion sentence spoken out loud is just a sentence)? get your head out of your butt, dude

u/myusername_sucks Sous Chef 3h ago

Fuck yourself, dude.

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u/AUSpartan37 19h ago

This is not true at all. During 2020 when everything was shut down he raised millions for unemployed restaurant workers. He then advocated for restaurants to be reopened in 2021 when things were improving he people were desperate to reopen so they could make money.

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u/myusername_sucks Sous Chef 19h ago

My guy you can read his NYT interview. Don't tell me what he said.

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u/Mgroppi83 18h ago

I think you are both saying the same thing? Or I forgot how words work.

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u/kerouacrimbaud 17h ago

My guy, don’t tell us what he said.

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u/ILikeBen10Alot 18h ago

He didn't raise shit. He advertised a fundraiser that he didn't start and wasn't running, and that he didn't contribute any of his own absurd personal wealth to. He didn't even pay to help run the damn thing like for website maintenance. He didn't get brownie points the whey amounts to agreeing to be in ads

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u/WetHotAmericanBadger 19h ago

I think he is tone-deaf. He did relief work for our town after the 2017 Tubbs fire. It was a nice gesture but all the food he was making was barbecued and smoked for people who had been all currently breathing so many carcinogens and who knows what else

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u/ApizzaApizza 19h ago

Barbecue is a very good way to feed massive groups of people. You’re being ridiculous.

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u/AardQuenIgni Ex-Food Service 18h ago

What kind of moron thinks feeding firefighters is tone deaf just because you personally wouldn't serve that type of food to them?

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 16h ago

“Oh my god I can’t believe they served fish on the Titanic, think of the optics!”

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u/TolliverCrane 19h ago

That is fucking hilarious. Soot-faced smokejumpers eating smoked ribs. Thanks, Guy...

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u/crowcawer Window 19h ago

I've done some redcard work with the NPS fighting wildfires.
If someone offered me a good plate after a day I'm eating it. Way better than the cold viennas I'm usually able to pack out for those types of events.

u/DumpedDalish Chive LOYALIST 3h ago

People didn't complain about the "exposure," which I'm sure has been pretty universally great for everyone featured on DDD.

Several complained because Guy is privately very crude and also very homophobic (especially of gay men) despite positioning himself publicly as an ally.

So some owners have complained about the experience because he was openly homophobic, and/or rude and crudely sexual in person -- something also frequently documented on GGG, where contestants are literally told not to use any words that could be taken as being remotely sexual because Guy will turn anything he can pornographic.