British chef of restaurant to be used during G-8 summit held for assault

Sunday 20th April, 05:52 AM JST

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smithinjapan at 05:17 PM JST - 20th April

Redacted: You're right... my apologies.... all professional chefs and anyone with culinary interest should head to the golden arches for a lesson on what makes 'real' food.... hahaha.
Starviking at 05:19 PM JST - 20th April
The sun long ago set on the old empire.

Two things redacted:
- Reading the one-sided report it seems like the Chef's thoughts were not - "damn uppity native getting in my way" as you seem to think. Rather, they were "Mmmmm! Need Barbecue Sauce!!!"
- You seem to be suggesting that if your nation is powerful enough then such incidents are ok. Is that what you mean.
Deal with it.

You seem to be the one who has problems dealing with things, at least as regards Britain.
Starviking at 05:21 PM JST - 20th April

I love the fact that even though it's an alleged assault his employers are offering their apologies and trying to distance themselves from the poor sod.

Talking of which - I wonder if JT would try and get his side of the story?
redacted at 05:26 PM JST - 20th April

"Redacted: You're right... my apologies.... all professional chefs and anyone with culinary interest should head to the golden arches for a lesson on what makes 'real' food.... hahaha."

The snark you get from Eikaiwa teachers about McDonalds is possibly the grandest irony you can come across in Japan.
northlondon at 06:16 PM JST - 20th April

I'm British and no excuses from me, he's a twat. Doesn't matter what your nationality is, assault is assault. Plenty of idiots like these back home too.

Unfortunately for him, the Japanese prosecution system is not a nice experience. He'll spend 2 or 3 months in a police cell and in and out of court until they deport him, if he's lucky.
smithinjapan at 06:46 PM JST - 20th April

Redacted: "The snark you get from Eikaiwa teachers about McDonalds is possibly the grandest irony you can come across in Japan."

Ummm.... not sure what you're on about, mate, but apparently you love McDonald's. All I was saying that ANY chef, be s/he African, Japanese, New Zealander, British, Canadian, Argentinian... not of it matters. If a chef is eating at McDonalds, s/he's not a chef. You can kiss the golden arches all you want, but any chef worth his/her grain of salt wouldn't set foot in the place, let alone steal BBQ sauce.
borscht at 07:01 PM JST - 20th April

Come on guys, he was just doing a little research trying to figure out what Bush wanted to eat. He remembered the last time a Bush ate sushi he upchucked all over the prime minister of Japan.
AdrianinDallas at 09:58 PM JST - 20th April

Hm. While McDonald's doesn't offer bottles of bar-be-que sauce for access to their customers here in the good ol' U.S.of A. (at least not here in Dallas, Texas), I must still assume that such sauces are easily and even cheaply available in most modern supermarkets, even in Japan...?

Was the "chef" actually trying to SHOPLIFT a bottle of Mickey D's sauce?!
MeanRingo at 10:29 PM JST - 20th April

Redacted- Funny that you're using Fast Food Nation to defend your golden arches. Have you read the rest of the book? You ain't winning this one mate.
westurn at 11:18 PM JST - 20th April

Redacted, well said ! If only the rest of the planet could be as efficient and offer customers what they want at a fair price as well as McDonalds does ! You can say all you want about the golden arches, but the fact remains, they are succesful and they offer the customers "exactly" what they want ! If that wasn't the case, they wouldn't be in business ! Ol' James Wilkins knew exactly where to go to get the BBQ sauce he wanted, make no mistake. I'm willing to bet he uses McD's BBQ sauce in some special recipe at his own French restaurant.
enasan at 10:45 AM JST - 21st April

I didn't know that McDonald's BBQ sauce was held in such high regard that gaijin go there to steal it! Amazing. I thought they only steal CUPIE !
Altria at 11:15 AM JST - 21st April

Damn, they must have been fresh out of sauce.
DeepAir65 at 11:49 AM JST - 21st April

I find it hard to believe that a chef of his caliber would be in McDonald's.

If it was him then double his punishment - violence is not the answer.
dano2002 at 01:32 PM JST - 21st April

all English chef's should leave Japan. i have heard that only the lowest level English want to become Chefs. (sarcasm)
romulus3 at 05:49 PM JST - 22nd April

oh dear. well, stiff upper lip and all that. I guess he may pull kitchen duty in the holding pen but its unlikely. imagine going through what he is going through now because of some damn BBQ sauce. its just not that nice is it? one suspects alcohol played a larger factor than sauce.