Restaurants, Kitchens and Bars... Oh my!Many years ago, I went out with a chef. Kitchens are merely vice dens with food. You couldn't move for people bonking and snorting coke in the store room. And the things they did with the food...
My personal vice was chocolate mousse - I remember it being very calming in all the chaos around me. I think they put things in it.
Tell us your stories of working in kitchens, bars and the rest of the nightmare that is the catering trade.
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chthonic, Fri 21 Jul 2006, 9:58)
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Fruit 'n VegFolks - always buy your fruit and veg from the corner shop.
Why? Because I worked for a Fruit and Vegetable wholesaler for a couple of summers during college.
The best stuff goes to corner shops because they drive the hardest bargains and can always switch wholesalers.
The next best stuff goes to hospitals, works canteens, small cafes etc..
The very worst, most rancid stuff you can imagine goes to supermarkets and hotels.
Example one - one of our vans broke down during a very hot summer. Two weeks later when we got it going again we realised that someone had left a crate of plums in the back which had been scoffed by wasps. It's quite possible to smooth the skins of plums over to conceal insect damage. They went to the local Asda.
Example two - the top chef of one of the Lake Districts finest hotels rang one morning twittering that he was a punnet of strawberries short. I personally delivered his missing punnet, made up of strawberries we'd found lying about on the loading dock in various crushed states.
I could go on. Don't EVER wonder about what happens to bananas between the South American jungle and your fruit bowl....
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 21 Jul 2006, 23:56,
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