David Mitchell: The PROBLEM with posh restaurants | The Graham Norton Show - BBC

QUALITY rant: David is SO entertaining when he's genuinely irritated about modern life.

I'd just be thinking "how long is this going to take, I ordered food because I'm hungry"

I mean. The way most of our dishes can be summed up as “X & Y” or not far from that has gotta say something. Fish & Chips, Banger’s and Mash, Toad in the Hole.

But there is one food I really care about. Shepherd’s Pie. I make the best Shepherd’s pie. I have tasted Shepherd’s pie from fancy restaurants and everywhere in between and it is shit in comparison to what I can cook up in an hour. I really should write my recipe down sometime.

OK, may I just say, I know how tall David Mitchell is. He’s about average. The people he’s sitting near must be very tiny, because he looks like a giant!

Who's the hottie on the end?

It's amusing to know that you can eat a 5 course meal in a posh restuarant and leave hungry. Give me bag of fish and chips any day. Masochists....

I'm a 31 year old Australian. Didn't even recognise recognise Kylie Minogue....

David's right, in general as a nation we don't value food the way the French or Italians do, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Sadly since the 50s we've been demanding cheap food at the expense of quality, so now what was reasonable quality food, albeit plain, is now full of artificial crap, sugar and fat.

As for those who are OK spending £100 for a meal that wouldn't fill a toddler, go for it. If you've got money to waste, waste it upon whatever takes your fancy.
No that isn't coming from a place of jealousy, I worked with a guy who spent about £120 every weekend on beer, takeaways and cigarettes and I considered that a waste as well.
If you have money, spend it how you want, you can't take it with you.

Who's the woman on the left?

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I want a sausage roll.

He could easily be talking about the US. I live in Seattle and every fancy restaurant wants to think Frasier the character might show up there that day.

yeah... when I give a long winded flowery description of a small thing my wife goes to sleep.

May I never be the type of person who wants to hear someone stand around & describe the minutiae of my food.

Has David been knighted yet?

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Has anyone seen "The Menu"? That movie is a great satire to "fine dining".

David Mitchell is a national treasure. Not from my nation, but still a national treasure.

No matter how fancy it is, it all comes out the same way

David Mitchell had a rant for everything and I have popcorn for every. single. one.

My problem with the long descriptions of the food is all the ridiculous fancy words that no one outsode a fancy restaurant ever uses. Like you ask what a really long fancy sentence is and it's normal meal. Why not just say what it is, why use some complex language to describe fish and chips or a sunday roast? You shouldn't need to take a dictionary with you to order a meal.
That and the various knives, forks and spoons, a fork is a fork, why do wee need slightly different length forks, or forks with one less pointy bit? It's a very simple one size fits all design and there's no reason to have a dozen different varieties of fork. Almost the same with knives, I can at least understand a sharper knife for meat. And as for spoons, let's not even go there, a spoon is a spoon, they all do the same thing.
Then there's the times where they add one weird thing to the dish to make it have a unique flavour, the thing is though are ordered that food cause I like the flavour of that particular food, and now it doesn't have the flavour I ordered it for. But you don't know they added something cause they used stupid fancy words to describe things instead of the words that everybody knows and have agreed are the words for things.
There's a reason I eat at the more cheap fast food places, one they tell you in plan words what you're buying and two they actually come in sensible portions.