Gordon Ramsay explained why there's 'no f***ing way he'd eat on planes'
"I know where this food's been and where it goes."
Hell's Kitchen icon Gordon Ramsay has swallowed some proper shockers in his time, yet there's one thing that he categorically will not eat.
Holder of eight Michelin stars in total, the 59-year-old is the King of Kitchen Rage and has entertained TV viewers for decades in Boiling Point, Hotel Hell and Kitchen Nightmares.
It goes without saying, but Ramsay's palette has become a finely-tuned machine over the years, which means that anything and everything edible is up for serious debate when he enters the room.
Previously speaking to Refinery29, the colourfuly-vocabularied chef went on a passionate rant about exactly what he's incapable of consuming.
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If he's about to jet off somewhere from London Heathrow's fifth terminal, Ramsay can actually swing by his own eatery known as Plane Food.
Even if he's based in another part of the airport, he can 'keep it light' over at an unnamed Italian place.
"A nice selection of Italian meats, a little glass of red wine, some sliced apples or pears with some parmesan cheese, I'm like a pig in s**t," he said.
There's a considerable difference to his approach when his feet aren't on terra firma, though.
"There’s no f***ing way I eat on planes," Ramsay claimed. "I worked for airlines for 10 years, so I know where this food's been and where it goes, and how long it took before it got on board."
Maybe we'll skip that next flight's offerings...
This comes after the foodie megastar told Business Insider that his 'Death Row meal' would be a full-English breakfast with extra baked beans.
"I stand by it. I swear by it. And it is one meal that I would ever eat as a last supper," he revealed in 2020.
As for his most-beloved American dish, he choose grits topped with shrimp and parmesan cheese.
Meanwhile, Ramsay was also previously asked if he'd consider creating a new menu for customers now taking weight loss medications like Mounjaro.
"That is absolute bulls***," he told the Sunday Times, before slamming the likes of Heston Blumenthal for catering to 'fat f***s' via modulated portion sizes and menus.
The Kitchen Nightmares star slammed fellow restaurateurs for catering to 'fat f***s' through specially designed menus with smaller portion sizes.
"There's no f***ing way we’re giving in to the Mounjaro jab," he added. "The problem is with [the diners] for eating too much in the first f***ing place!
"There's no way that we're coming in with an Ozempic tasting menu to make you feel like less of a fat f**k by 10:30 in the evening," the restauranteur reiterated.
Topics: Food and Drink, Gordon Ramsay, Travel
Dan Seddon