Gordon Ramsay is coming to Bangkok. Here are some of our favourite insults from the chef. 

He cooks a smashing beef wellington and his scrambled egg technique is phenomenal but we’re not here to talk about his food. We’re here to talk about the best insults Gordon Ramsay has ever dished out.

When Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen & Bar opened here in Bangkok, it was a delightful surprise. But now Gordon Ramsay himself is coming to Bangkok tomorrow to check on Bread Street and meet with some people after his stop in Manila where he just opened his first restaurant.

There’s one thing Gordon Ramsay is known for and everyone unanimously agrees with this: his insults. Well, okay, yes his food too but his insults are also world renown. To celebrate his coming to Bangkok, we take a look back at some of the best insults Gordon Ramsay has made. 

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Some of the Gordon Ramsay insults to commemorate his Bangkok visit

Idiot sandwich

It’s a little funny how one of Gordon’s most memorable insults is actually scripted, and it’s also not even one that he actually says. In a sketch called “Hell’s Cafeteria” in The Late Late Show with James Corden, Gordon puts two pieces of bread between daytime host Julie Chen’s head and makes her call herself an idiot sandwich. And thus Gordon could no longer escape people asking him to call them an idiot sandwich.

“You surprise me how shi* you are.”

This is most likely the inspiration for that one Key & Peele sketch of the chef in the reality show who’s vague about whether he was giving an insult or a compliment. In an episode of Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon meets the two teams after a disastrous service and begins annihilating them. He tells one of the contestants “You do seriously surprise me,” and the contestant begins rattling off about giving it his best effort before being cut off by Gordon revealing it was an insult.

It’s surprising and hilarious how the contestant thought it was a compliment when the service was a complete utter disaster. 

“You fu**ing donkey/donut!”

Straightforward. Precise. Scathing. Succinct. True Gordon Ramsay insult poetry, and one that he’s used multiple times over the years. My personal favourite is during an episode of Kitchen Nightmares where he discovers all the food has been microwaved. He asks if there was anything served to him that wasn’t microwaved. One of the staff replied, “The salad”. Oh boy.

In true Gordon fashion, he retorts, “You fu**ing donut, of course you don’t microwave a salad.”

“F**k off you fat useless sack of fu**ing yankee dankee doodle shi*e.”

Does anything else need to be said about this? It’s almost Shakespearian. 

“Looks like Ghandi’s flip flop.”

Gordon says this to a horribly cooked fish in Hell’s Kitchen. It’s actually a pretty accurate statement when you see the state of that fish. 

“Why did the chicken cross the road? ‘Cause you didn’t fu**ing cook it.”

It’s unclear whether Gordon ever actually said this. There are a lot of food-related insults that have been attributed to the celebrity chef without any evidence. But it didn’t stop this saying for being included in a sketch in The Nightly Show where John Legend sings Gordon Ramsay insults. The cherry on top is Gordon actually sings the punchline.

“What are you trying to do, lose your virginity?”

Over the years, Gordon has learned to control himself with his off-the-cuff remarks. Perhaps it’s media training though it’s more likely his daughters telling him off. But 2000’s era Gordon Ramsay had no chill and said stuff like this, which of course will forever be remembered in the annals of TV and internet history.