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I broke the fucking Starbucks 'Cheer Chain'

By Gordon Ramsay

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And I’d do it again.

I was driving through Pennsylvania the other day (like I do every Monday) when I had a hankering for a Venti nonfat decaf latte with two Splenda. I saw a Starbucks (with a fucking drive-thru, mind you) and pulled up. When I got to the window to get my drink, the fucking drive-thru worker tells me the person in front of me paid for my drink. I thought, “Nice. Free drink for Gordo. Fame is good.”

Turns out everyone was buying free fucking drinks for each other — for like two fucking hours. I thought it was just because the car in front of me noticed my signature hairstyle and wanted to buy a celebrity some coffee. So after two hours, this cheer chain of goodwill came to an end. Do I feel guilty? Fuck no.

I’m all for holiday fucking cheer, but please. You’re not going to change the world by making espresso-sipping lawyers your charity. Take the four fucking dollars you spent on the guy in the BMW behind you and buy some fucking food for that poor bloke across the street who’s living in a discarded box from a wet/dry vac.

Is it just me or is fucking Starbucks not the place to dole out the donations?

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Comments

Ihatecelebutards:

Gee, you're such a fucking important celebutard I haven't even heard of you. And I've seen a whole 30 seconds of fucking "Entertainment Tonight" this year while I dove for the fucking remote. I guess this fucking post must be the most brilliant fucking post you've ever read, fuckhead, because by your standards, repeating the word "fuck" passes for wit. You're not even a celebutard. You're just an asshole. Fuck you.

12/17/2007 4:39 PM

Andy Smith:

Right on! you've brought up a very valid point there; that isn't charity, unl;ess you buy another back, then it's simply purchasing a coffee?

four dollars could make a hobo's day

12/13/2007 10:49 AM

GR:

Nah. I just like driving through Pennsylvania on Mondays. There are a few reasons I wouldn't do Kitchen Nightmares in Philly:

1. There have been nearly 400 murders in Philly this year. Shitty restaurants are the least of that city's problems.

2. While there are a ton of shitty restaurants in Philly, we wouldn't do a show there because it's not a real city.

3. Philly is full of idiots. All you have to do to be a celebrity in Philly is be a weatherperson or anchor on the local news. I mean how many fucking cover stories can fucking Philadelphia Magazine do about John Bolaris or Marc Howard? What a shitty magazine.

12/16/2007 10:01 PM

Canuckazoid:

Gordon, next time you get your coffee, you should sip it, then spit it out, and insist on going inside to show them the proper way to brew a latte.

Love your show, love your attitude. Swing by Canada sometime and see how bad our restaraunts can be. I can show you a place in Vancouver that you would never recover from. I'm almost dead certain it would cause you to consider a career in gardening.

12/17/2007 11:14 PM

Joe American:

I'm glad that you limp-wristed panzies think that buying other pretentious losers over-sweetened and -caffeinated coffee somehow equates to a charitable deed. I'm sure you never had the pleasure of being poor, homeless, or having an original thought. Maybe it's the exhaust from your Hummer or SLK, the glare from your Friendster profile off a MacBook screen , or the Old Navy fleece that's cutting off the circulation to your lower extremities (i.e. balls), but I smell bullshit.

Please continue to live the other 345+ days or so of the year in a selfish, corporate, conformist mindset. Better yet, call my middle finger "cheer" and pass it around, please.

1/8/2008 7:45 PM

el serracho:

the single funniest thing about this post is that there are people incapable of reading the five little words below the masthead.

i love it.

12/17/2007 4:53 PM

John Mayer:

GR,

I "cheered" when I read this!

John Mayer

12/24/2007 2:53 AM

Kim:

seriously, I work at a Starbucks and while I understand what you're saying Gordon, seriously, what's the point in being mean about it? I had a customer a few days ago "pass the cheer" by paying for the drink of the person behind them in the drive-thru line. While it hasn't happened before or since then I still think it was nice. Personally, I don't encourage this because insensitive pricks (like yourself) will take it the wrong way. No, it doesn't help the poor homeless people when you're generously paying for the 5 buck latte of the rich guy behind you. However, if we were all nicer to each other, don't you think the world would HONESTLY be a better place? Just a little?

12/25/2007 8:46 AM

GR:

Thanks, Andy. Great minds think alike.
As for you Thinking/Perceiving: the car behind me would have cost me $12.70. I'm all for a little goodwill, but come on! I was just having one latte. The people behind me could have opened their own coffee house with their order. It just didn't seem fair. Besides, they were driving a Hummer.

12/13/2007 4:31 PM

ROBERT GORDON RAMSEYS A TWAT POPE:

IM SOOOO GLAD I HAVE THIS WONDERFULL OPPERTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU SON MANY A WHILE AGO I SAW THIS PROGRAMME WHERE SOME DRIPPY ASSHOLE WON A COMPERTITION TO TRAIN UNDER YOU AND HE WAS ALL HAPPY AND EXCITED TILL OH MOTHER OF GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE MIXED YESTERDAYS SALAD WITH TODAYS SALAD AND YOU STARTED CRYING WHY WHY ITS NOT SOMEBODYS LUNGS YOUR FIXING FOR FUCKS SAKE YOU MORON AND ALL THIS BLOKE WAS SAYING TO YOU AS YOU WERE SAYING THINGS LIKE"YOUNG MAN YOUR DUMB YOUNG MAN I LEARNED THAT WHEN I WAS 8 "WAS YES CHEF YES CHEF RATHER THAN WHY DONT YOU FUCK OFF UP YOUR OWN ASSHOLE YOU FUCKING PONCE OH PS WHY DO I KEEP ON AND ON FUCKING UP MY RICE????

4/27/2008 11:55 AM

gravy boy:

This would be a better story if the drive thru was at a kentucky fried chicken and someone bought Ramsay a fucking bucket of extra crispy beaks and assholes and then he bought the next person in line a picnic bucket of mashed potatoes and gravy and so on and so on as each customer bought grosser and grosser stuff for the simp behind them....or maybe my dreams of a perfect world aren't shared by the masses......oh well.

12/17/2007 5:29 PM

GR:

Thanks John!

Nice pun.

You're back in my good graces. You really know how to mess with my mind with your comments. One minute you're seducing me with kudos. The next minute you're calling me names.

If you would stop singing and trying to write music and trying to play the guitar, I really think we could be friends. Even given our age difference.

Cheers.

GR

12/24/2007 3:34 AM

Dan:

Driving through Pennsylvania? By any chance were you scouting
out restaurants in Philadelphia for next season of Kitchen
Nightmares?

12/16/2007 5:31 PM

GR:

Canuck: I thank you for your support. I wish all Canadians were as sharp as you are.

Baristab: Don't quibble with me on the order of the words. I do in fact order my latte just the way I wrote it above in my post. And the brilliant people at Starbucks get the order correct every time.

Gravy Boy: I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

Best,

GR

12/18/2007 2:31 AM

baristabitch:

if you're going to knock it, at least get your damn drink right: "decaf venti non-fat two splenda latte." it's jerks like you that make my lousy job even more miserable

12/18/2007 2:02 AM

ThinkingPerceiving:

Wow, what a fucking cheap-ass. How about growing a pair and buying a fucking drink. It's dumb asses like you for why people no longer do good in this world. I mean honestly, you were going to buy one anyways, so pay.

12/13/2007 4:24 AM

dudemar:

Woah, I had no idea this guy was some reality TV personality who got hired because he's an asshole. Makes sense now. By the way, Gordon, your show sucks and you are a tool.

12/17/2007 4:30 PM

Sebastian J:

I'm inspired by your acts to do the same in my town, except in reverse. I will go through the drive-thru and explain that the person behind me will be picking up my tab. I'll tell them it's all in the name of Christmas. This is a true "cheer-chain".
Keep on changing America's shitty restaurants Gordon, and best of luck in the new year.

12/20/2007 3:18 AM

dudemar:

What's worse, an "espresso sipping lawyer" or a shit-eating-splenda-latte drinking twink? I'll choose the former, because at least the espresso sipping lawyer isn't an asshole who decided to piss on something nice that people were doing for each other for no reason. Misplaced indignation truly makes you a rebel without a cause, and therefore, really "fucking" cool. It's truly bold, and absurd, to think that somehow you're better than the other people in that starbucks line.

Maybe next time you do it, you should take the muffler off your SUV, loosen the oil filter ever so slightly so that you're hosing a little bit of dirty oil on the ground, and spit in the face of the person at the drive through, that'll show those corporate fat cats (at the corporation you clearly like the products of that treats their employees and customers extremely well) and their stupid customers the true meaning of Christmas.

12/17/2007 4:07 PM

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