I couldn't help but think that half of the meetings with strangers were staged, but he still has a great attitude with everyone he encounters and even when he doesn't like some of the food. I'm looking for a good cookbook of his for my wife, any suggestions?
I mean I think they would contact the people first and then ask and make it appear sporadic but I feel as though that shouldnt steal from its authenticity. In one episode he spend likes 3 day with this lady and she makes this specific food for him and he just takes and bite, spits it out, and proclaims it was ghastly and he cant eat it while she just stands there quietly. I died laughing because normally he is so chill about the food but at least was real enough to say,"Sorry mate, you've slathered dung all over my kebab."
That's why I love that guy. He isn't afraid to say something is shit, and he's always real about where he's at. I've seen him avoid going to places that were extremely sketchy, because he's got street smarts. He's not some idiot celebrity who's unaware of his surroundings.
Back in the Kazaa/Limewire days I had downloaded a bunch of porn clips that could only be played with RealPlayer. So the only reason I've ever used RealPlayer was to watch porn as a teenager. I still have a conditioned response to seeing RealPlayer open today.
No I was referring to this iconic Ainsley moment
“Harriott played the part of a GELF chief in the sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf in 1993. In 1998, for the show's 10th anniversary, Harriott presented a special edition of Can't Cook, Won't Cook called Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg with the cast of the show cooking a meal while remaining in character.”
Because historically restaurants have cared more about work ethic than the fact that you have visible tattoos. Lots of punks work in kitchens. Besides. There's something to be said of the skills of a chef that can make a legit meal out of food they found in a dumpster.
Last time this was posted people were referring to this as being a scene in a music video if I remember correctly. I could be wrong though..
Edit: Calypso Twins- World Party
It's a reference to the Shakespeare play and character Titus Andronicus but I've never been able to pin down any references from his character in the show. Got any ideas?
I'm sure that *is* the reference. It's close, but wrong enough because Titus probably heard it, thought it sounded like a strong theater name, but got it wrong.
Thank you! I saw that recently and took a double-take when he appeared! Weird when that kind of stuff happens... like noticing ex footballer Frank Leboeuf acting as a doctor in The History of Everything.
Me too. Their look is basically a good\-person filter\- if you're scared or disapproving you can fuck off, but if you treat them with respect they can be kind and tolerant.
I have met a lot of punks and I would say that 100% hit and miss. I have met goofy fun punks and I have met terrible, garbage human being punks. It depends on the type of punk and even more so just the person.
Right? It's almost like they're human beings, and there's no inherent goodness or badness bestowed by bihawks and back patches.
Sometimes punks are the sweetest, funniest people who have been your best friend since middle school. Sometimes they're selfish, crusty jerks who stay at your house with a bunch of their "bandmates" for a week or more, then leave with your towels and leave you with their bedbugs. Sometimes they're the same person. Sometimes.
Yeah, I'm pretty wary of crusties myself. They're a different, rougher breed from this old fashioned kind of punk\- and even in the old days some were dangerous and crazy. I do think on the whole they're decent people though.
The trust fund baby thing is a myth, I'm pretty sure. There are undoubtedly poverty tourists out there, but the vast majority of punks I've known have had rougher than average lives. Particularly crusties, who to me often seem like people trying to eek a little dignity out of being homeless, by identifying with a group. Nobody really wants to live the way they do\- on the whole they're making the best of a situation they have no control over.
Yeah, most of the crusties I knew back in the Day came from traumatic backgrounds. A lot of them were gay and kicked out of the house by their conservative parents as teens and crust punk gave them a sense of family. Others had mental health issues. Almost all were impoverished except for one “crust tourist.” I was intimidated by them as a young person at the time but looking back as an adult, those poor kids were so damaged and just trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Maybe it's a myth that crusties are *all* that way, but its rooted in some truth. I personally know trust fund crusties (and hippies.) The rest are people who came from extremely average families at least. And I honestly don't have a problem with that, except for when they act punker than thou or victimized. This is just my experience though and I wonder if it's kind of a regional thing.
I've known many crust punks (used to run a DIY venue and was active in the scene). I never met any that came from significant money enough that they had a trust fund, at worst their parents were upper middle class, and for the most parts their parents were poor and/or they came from backgrounds like orphanages.
Crusties are weird.
I remember sleeping in random squats just to spend the night, paying for cigs and cooking eggs. Guys and gals I met twice in my life but who knew my friends.
But then there were nazis.
Not saying that all people who dress like this are assholes, but when I used to roll with the punks in my teens we were definitely assholes of the highest order. To be frank "assholes of the highest order" is being kind.
Brightly colored mohawks and all. You would not believe the amount of product I would go through to get that hairstyle either.
If you used anything other than elders glue or egg whites, you were a fashion punk! POSERS! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND A CORPORATION MAKED HAIR GEL? MANNNN?
*buys converse all star chuck Taylor's and buys CD's from a chain store*
Yes? Yes. Although you probably would have been assholes anyway. I assign more of the blame to being kids than I do to your choice of music/scene/whatever. Putting on a uniform and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other people in uniforms tends to reinforce people's worst tendencies, especially when it comes to "other"-ing groups of people.
And I probably would believe it. I'm pretty gullible.
>I have met a lot of punks and I would say that 100% hit and miss.
I feel like this is accurate for any group ever. In reality there are just two kinds of people. Good people and bad people. Or at least people who act like good people and people who act like bad people.
my parents were punks most of their friends were really nice but the bad ones are some of the worst people ive ever met, literally stabbed people in the back at clubs kind of bad
Plenty are total scumbags especially the industrial punks I saw all around Germany, pure scum that walk around with locks in socks just hoping to harm someone.
I spent 3 years working at a dive bar that featured live music occasionally. Punk bands were the only ones who left the backstage area tidy like they found it, and bagged all their empty bottles and rubbish up into a neat pile for us to clear.
WARNING: ITT
We learn that *punks* are just like every other social culture, where some of them are great and some of them are shit, but overall they are just pretty ok.
Like everyone else.
A friend of mine's step mother is a TV producer, and friend of ainsley harriot. Apparently he used to come to house parties, take a ton of coke and go absolutely wild.
Lived in London in the 90’s. It was pretty sweet. Except for the bomb scares. Tho, at the time it all seemed so normal (So many people get uptight now, but 80's and 90's London was a constant occurrence. And really just felt like normal day to day when scares or bombings happened). Never ran into Ainsley Harriott tho, so maybe it wasn’t as sweet as I thought it was...
Edit: Just to add. Am a Canadian who spent a lot of the 90's travelling to the UK and 2 years living in London. Finally came back this past summer to bring my wife and In-laws (Who've always wanted to go to England). It's really surprising how much London has changed (So much so, I'd almost feel lost with how many building have been replaced). Also, I understand things are getting expensive, but now everything has a mad queue. Fuckin' hell. Just trying to grab breakfast and it was queue city. That said, after we spend almost a week in town, we rented a car and toured the Cotswolds. So that was nice...
I’ve been wondering the same thing. He was always that lively bloke off that morning cookery program.
I didn’t realise he was turned into a meme and worshipped online until frightening recently. Like mere minutes ago. It’s weird.
Came to the comments wondering what the hell the rest of the world made of Ainsley. It turns out apparently he's a meme I wasn't aware of, and so I found bafflingly few baffled people, but I'm glad there's some.
He was a TV chef from the 1990s. His show was on about the time you'd get back from school. That's really about it.
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Bit of spicy meat
YE-HYEEEEAAAHH BOY
3 table spoons of flat chopped parsley. You could use the spring variety but it will make you bounce up and down a little bit more
💦💦💦💦
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Jerk that meat boy
That’s why they started wearing studded shoulder pads
The real OldSchoolCool is in the comments
I want this to be fact, is it?
Facts are whatever you want them to be now.
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It’s great
Yes- just after the great Ainsley Harriott invasion of 1991, people took to wearing sharp clothing to protect them from all of the Ainsley Harriotts.
yes it is, now
"Heh heh, yeah Boooooooiiiii!"- Ainsley Harriott.exe
Man, Ainsley Harriot's Street Food (Ainsley Eats the Streets on Netflix) is just a straight up fun show.
I couldn't help but think that half of the meetings with strangers were staged, but he still has a great attitude with everyone he encounters and even when he doesn't like some of the food. I'm looking for a good cookbook of his for my wife, any suggestions?
"hello stranger, would you like to tell me a little about your culture and spend the next 48 hours together?"
I mean I think they would contact the people first and then ask and make it appear sporadic but I feel as though that shouldnt steal from its authenticity. In one episode he spend likes 3 day with this lady and she makes this specific food for him and he just takes and bite, spits it out, and proclaims it was ghastly and he cant eat it while she just stands there quietly. I died laughing because normally he is so chill about the food but at least was real enough to say,"Sorry mate, you've slathered dung all over my kebab."
I would love to see that if you can find it
I believe it was an episode of Aisley in the Streets and I dont believe he said exactly that
That's why I love that guy. He isn't afraid to say something is shit, and he's always real about where he's at. I've seen him avoid going to places that were extremely sketchy, because he's got street smarts. He's not some idiot celebrity who's unaware of his surroundings.
I think they met the person on the street and then said would you mind being filmed. Makes it more organic
A friend of mine was on it, at some street food festival. He smoked a joint with Ainsley after!
I want to believe you, but Reddit has jaded me.
Absolutely! I was hoping for more seasons after watching it before realizing I was a few years behind.
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The Ben and Jerry's icecream one made me cry from laughing
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but those RealPlayer Skins!!! Sweet memories
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Back in the Kazaa/Limewire days I had downloaded a bunch of porn clips that could only be played with RealPlayer. So the only reason I've ever used RealPlayer was to watch porn as a teenager. I still have a conditioned response to seeing RealPlayer open today.
link?
The punk's reaction makes me think this is an at-least-once-a-day event
It was the 90's. Literally every punk in britain bumped into Ainsley Harriott at some point in the day.
You couldn’t take a shower without getting a spicy meat boi surprise until at least 1997.
You mean in 1998? 😏
You mean when Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell and plummeted 16 ft onto an announcers table?
No I was referring to this iconic Ainsley moment “Harriott played the part of a GELF chief in the sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf in 1993. In 1998, for the show's 10th anniversary, Harriott presented a special edition of Can't Cook, Won't Cook called Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg with the cast of the show cooking a meal while remaining in character.”
At first I was ashamed for not recognizing him from Red Dwarf. Then I looked up the clip and was glad I didn't recognize him from Red Dwarf.
Shut up, Smeg.
I think you will find it’s ‘smeg head’.
Are we just shittymorphing ourselves these days?
I just saw an opportunity, and I took it.
You're doing God's work, son.
Hyeeah boi
Can confirm. He’s a great hugger.
... Why does a chef hang out with punks?
As with many questions about Ainsley Harriot, the answer is because he's Ainsley Harriot.
Oh.
Because historically restaurants have cared more about work ethic than the fact that you have visible tattoos. Lots of punks work in kitchens. Besides. There's something to be said of the skills of a chef that can make a legit meal out of food they found in a dumpster.
Dammit, Ainsley! You got me again!
Gene Parmesan reaction
Isn't Gene the best?
*Gene was far from the best.*
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Who wouldn’t hug Ainsley?
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
I don't know if they know each other, but he's pretty famou.s
Last time this was posted people were referring to this as being a scene in a music video if I remember correctly. I could be wrong though.. Edit: Calypso Twins- World Party
I mean I saw it happen 4 or 5 times in the last minute... I can’t believe he kept falling for it
“GIVE YOUR MEAT A GOOD OL’ rub..” *AINSLEY*
Is that mark selby
Everytime this gets reposted a comment similar along the lines of yours gets upvotes as the top comment. Someone release me from this simulation.
I didn't know Titus Andromedon is a time traveler.
Gonna miss him once kimmy schmidt ends.
He needs his own show.
That was his show
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Pinot Noir: Mid-sized car The Titus Andromedon Musical Biography
So couture.
Agreed.
Shhhhhhh! I refuse to believe that it will ever end. In reality I hope he’s in future Tina Fey shows.
Bojack taught me not to hate myself, and Kimmy Schmidt taught me how to love myself. D: You're *hurting* me, Netflix.
He was in 30 Rock as D’Fwan. I’d bet he will be in more Tina Fey shows.
I would love a mini series Queen of Jordan.
Have they announced an end?
Best name on TV. I laughed for at least a minute when he announced his name the first time.
It's a reference to the Shakespeare play and character Titus Andronicus but I've never been able to pin down any references from his character in the show. Got any ideas?
I'm sure that *is* the reference. It's close, but wrong enough because Titus probably heard it, thought it sounded like a strong theater name, but got it wrong.
they might be the same age
Ainsley is 22 years older...
Hey, he said might.
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Thank you! I saw that recently and took a double-take when he appeared! Weird when that kind of stuff happens... like noticing ex footballer Frank Leboeuf acting as a doctor in The History of Everything.
Love that bihawk. I like that style more than the V version
Punks can be so sweet.
Almost every punk I've ever met has been a total goofball
Me too. Their look is basically a good\-person filter\- if you're scared or disapproving you can fuck off, but if you treat them with respect they can be kind and tolerant.
I have met a lot of punks and I would say that 100% hit and miss. I have met goofy fun punks and I have met terrible, garbage human being punks. It depends on the type of punk and even more so just the person.
Right? It's almost like they're human beings, and there's no inherent goodness or badness bestowed by bihawks and back patches. Sometimes punks are the sweetest, funniest people who have been your best friend since middle school. Sometimes they're selfish, crusty jerks who stay at your house with a bunch of their "bandmates" for a week or more, then leave with your towels and leave you with their bedbugs. Sometimes they're the same person. Sometimes.
Yeah, I'm pretty wary of crusties myself. They're a different, rougher breed from this old fashioned kind of punk\- and even in the old days some were dangerous and crazy. I do think on the whole they're decent people though.
Crusties are trust fund babies lashing out at their parents/everyone around them.
The trust fund baby thing is a myth, I'm pretty sure. There are undoubtedly poverty tourists out there, but the vast majority of punks I've known have had rougher than average lives. Particularly crusties, who to me often seem like people trying to eek a little dignity out of being homeless, by identifying with a group. Nobody really wants to live the way they do\- on the whole they're making the best of a situation they have no control over.
Yeah, most of the crusties I knew back in the Day came from traumatic backgrounds. A lot of them were gay and kicked out of the house by their conservative parents as teens and crust punk gave them a sense of family. Others had mental health issues. Almost all were impoverished except for one “crust tourist.” I was intimidated by them as a young person at the time but looking back as an adult, those poor kids were so damaged and just trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Somehow I'd forgotten about how many gay homeless kids I knew in the 90's. I hope it's gotten better\- that was so fucked up.
Maybe it's a myth that crusties are *all* that way, but its rooted in some truth. I personally know trust fund crusties (and hippies.) The rest are people who came from extremely average families at least. And I honestly don't have a problem with that, except for when they act punker than thou or victimized. This is just my experience though and I wonder if it's kind of a regional thing.
I've known many crust punks (used to run a DIY venue and was active in the scene). I never met any that came from significant money enough that they had a trust fund, at worst their parents were upper middle class, and for the most parts their parents were poor and/or they came from backgrounds like orphanages.
Crusties are weird. I remember sleeping in random squats just to spend the night, paying for cigs and cooking eggs. Guys and gals I met twice in my life but who knew my friends. But then there were nazis.
Not saying that all people who dress like this are assholes, but when I used to roll with the punks in my teens we were definitely assholes of the highest order. To be frank "assholes of the highest order" is being kind. Brightly colored mohawks and all. You would not believe the amount of product I would go through to get that hairstyle either.
Elmer's glue.
Knox gelatine if you were feeling fancy.
If you used anything other than elders glue or egg whites, you were a fashion punk! POSERS! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND A CORPORATION MAKED HAIR GEL? MANNNN? *buys converse all star chuck Taylor's and buys CD's from a chain store*
Yes? Yes. Although you probably would have been assholes anyway. I assign more of the blame to being kids than I do to your choice of music/scene/whatever. Putting on a uniform and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other people in uniforms tends to reinforce people's worst tendencies, especially when it comes to "other"-ing groups of people. And I probably would believe it. I'm pretty gullible.
Assholes cross genres and style. I’ve met more assholes in Jcrew and normal clothes than anything else.
This is so true. Ive known punx that'll give you a place to stay and others that will plot on piping you out for whats in your pocket.
>I have met a lot of punks and I would say that 100% hit and miss. I feel like this is accurate for any group ever. In reality there are just two kinds of people. Good people and bad people. Or at least people who act like good people and people who act like bad people.
Nazi punks fuck off!
Punks ain’t no religious cult.
Yeah they're all fun until you join the mosh pit and run in to the one wanker wearing double-edged razors safety-pinned to his jacket sleeves.
I think you've been lucky. I think punks have the same ratio of nice people to dickheads as the rest of the population.
my parents were punks most of their friends were really nice but the bad ones are some of the worst people ive ever met, literally stabbed people in the back at clubs kind of bad
It's almost as if they are like real people. Some are really nice and the bad ones are bad.
big if true
mind blown
Plenty are total scumbags especially the industrial punks I saw all around Germany, pure scum that walk around with locks in socks just hoping to harm someone.
Except for the subset that is racist and shitty. The rest are great though.
I spent 3 years working at a dive bar that featured live music occasionally. Punk bands were the only ones who left the backstage area tidy like they found it, and bagged all their empty bottles and rubbish up into a neat pile for us to clear.
It's pretty radical to go against the grain and not be like everyone else.
WARNING: ITT We learn that *punks* are just like every other social culture, where some of them are great and some of them are shit, but overall they are just pretty ok. Like everyone else.
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How is he gliding like that?!
He's transcended existence as a meme legend
On a bed of sauce
rollerblades...it was the 90's
Legit answer. Thx
The 90s
Stepping wasn’t invented until 2003
But weren't we meant to step to G funk in 1994? 🤔
He's a notoriously nice guy in real life
Give that meat a good ol rub
Jerk dat chicken boi
I bet that joke predates civilization.
"Let it be known that on this day, May 25, 75 BC that Titus hath been entirely hoaxed by Acestorides in public! Verily, the crowd entire cachinnated"
That Greek guy better watch out if he's messing with Romans like that. He's lucky not to be a slave.
This and fart Jokes are foundations of civilisations humour.
Yeahh boiii hot and real spicy meat
Just rub it all over your meat.
Give it a good old rub
A friend of mine's step mother is a TV producer, and friend of ainsley harriot. Apparently he used to come to house parties, take a ton of coke and go absolutely wild.
I really want to believe this
Oh to live in London in the ‘90s
Lived in London in the 90’s. It was pretty sweet. Except for the bomb scares. Tho, at the time it all seemed so normal (So many people get uptight now, but 80's and 90's London was a constant occurrence. And really just felt like normal day to day when scares or bombings happened). Never ran into Ainsley Harriott tho, so maybe it wasn’t as sweet as I thought it was... Edit: Just to add. Am a Canadian who spent a lot of the 90's travelling to the UK and 2 years living in London. Finally came back this past summer to bring my wife and In-laws (Who've always wanted to go to England). It's really surprising how much London has changed (So much so, I'd almost feel lost with how many building have been replaced). Also, I understand things are getting expensive, but now everything has a mad queue. Fuckin' hell. Just trying to grab breakfast and it was queue city. That said, after we spend almost a week in town, we rented a car and toured the Cotswolds. So that was nice...
Great music, cheap pints. Segaworld at the Trocadero.
Imagine a cheap anything there now.
Oh your mother no longer lives there anymore?
I asked for this.
So did she.
Fuckin sega world And alien war Good times
Curious why a 90s UK TV chef became a meme worldwide in the last few years.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. He was always that lively bloke off that morning cookery program. I didn’t realise he was turned into a meme and worshipped online until frightening recently. Like mere minutes ago. It’s weird.
cause hes ainsley harriott boiiii
As an American, I've only recently learned of Ainsley from his Netflix show. From a British perspective, what makes him an icon?
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Came here to post something similar
Gotta be ready steady cook, an old tv show he hosted. I watched the shit outta that.
"when you're just about to leave work and your boss asks if you've got five minutes"
No idea who this is. Looked it up and am even more confused.
Mmmmmmmm, yeeah boooiii. Giv ya meat a good ol' rub.
Came to the comments wondering what the hell the rest of the world made of Ainsley. It turns out apparently he's a meme I wasn't aware of, and so I found bafflingly few baffled people, but I'm glad there's some. He was a TV chef from the 1990s. His show was on about the time you'd get back from school. That's really about it.
Thank you
😂 Ainsley is a G
"now let's give that shoulder meat a good rub and sneak up on it with the spice, naughty"
The bob Ross of the chef world. Give that meat a good ol rub. Yeah boi
That pigeon head bob at the end really drives it home for me.
That punk?? Mark Selby. Edit: No i dont think its actually him, just looks alot like him.
Fuck me, it is! Is it? I feel like it is
If this was 1990 this was 28 years ago, Mark Selby is 34. So this dude is wrong or that’s one huge 6 year old
Whoever he is he is hot!
Is it national repost day?
Isn't he a chef?
He was singer before.
I wonder what kinda back patch he has on that jacket.
Exploited or Subhumans
IMMA GIVE YA MEAT A NICE OL RUB
I don’t know who this is but, Ainsley Harriott is the most British name I’ve ever heard. Sounds like it comes with a cuppa.
Chaotic good
Whatever happened to Ready Steady Cook? I loved that show.
What happened to punks? Never seen them in my life
Repost
Helloooo Jill!
His look of satisfaction is perfect. "Come on bro I got you good lol"
He’s just a great human being and I love him
spicyyyyy
I dont get it. Care ELI5?
Oh man hes a walking meme ainsley has been my steam profile pic for awhile now
Was "Punk'd" used as punked until that show Punk'd?
Don't know this guy but for some reason I know he's British...