Room 101 - Rich Hall - Part 4, Pretentious Menus.

[Mortthemoose]

ha ha... pretentious menus would get my vote too!

[TheChocolateButton1]

I'm moist just watching this

[schnorschrajaxx]

was that wine woman if faulty towers??

[bensimps123]

masterchef 2000 looks so old ..its only 2000 !!!

[darthslain]

3:58 WTF are you on about?

[timdaughte]

Not to sound too pretentious, but grits are another form of polenta.

[elrynx2]

What was the lady's name that reviewed the wine?

Ginny..what?

[crojonphoenix]

@elrynx2 jilly goolden, she is alike a nuclear explosion of confabulation. she flies of like a meandering rain kissed butterfly on a waft embraced meadow on a spring morn at dawn.

[elrynx2]

@crojonphoenix She seems an utterly contrived spectacle...one which will evoke much laughter from me, especially if I find the right parody...charming as she may be.

Thanks :)

[batmanofni]

Did you see the young Oz Clark, he looks like a baby.

[wigglywormhole]

Oriole is a type of bird? Nadge is slang for p*nis round here.

[05005051]

I loved Food and Drink when Jilly Goolden tested the wine. It was the only reason I ever watched it as it was hilarious.

[molyvenson]

this is like the show bullshit in america, but with british ppl and simpler lol

[southsydney]

i miss iron chef  :'(

[JohnMstudios]

the woman who describs the wine looks a lot like connie booth (polly, in fawlty towers)

[faenorflame]

How is "molten tar" a good thing for wine? In fact, her whole description of it sounds terrible.

[bakidk]

@faenorflame It's 5 quid fermented grape juice. Not exactly Chateau Latour ;) :D

[aliensexgangchildren]

@ScotlandMaleGlasgow i mainly mean the posh english accent, we americans just call all of you guys brits now days, i know scots usually don't like being linked to the english though =p

[Expletus1001]

Oh god, this doesn't even sound like an American accent anyway. It's like a camp gay American attempted a hilariously overdone imitation of a camp gay American. And I'm saying this as a camp gay American.

[Bearsir]

was that Oz Clarke

[FudgePop101]

OMG i feel like a fking moron... i thought the title said pretentious meanus... i was so confused.

[TopGearFanForever]

@FudgePop101 Me too until about 6 minutes before I tuned in xD

[robalsager]

hey hazelangus...its really anoying that u chose to tell us what rich wanted to put in room 101 before we even clicked on the vid...

[BaileyJapes]

@robalsager Yeah, it's a hellish world at times.

[robalsager]

@BaileyJapes lol :)

[IoEstasCedonta]

This is why I couldn't have been a comedian - if he'd asked me what "hominy grits" were, I'd have said "alkali-treated cornmeal porridge."

[BleedTheBlind]

"It's like Molten Tar" WTF? hahaha!

[fitlyf08]

i can appreciate wine but god they are total bell ends

[14kip]

nag of salmon .lol.

[aliensexgangchildren]

well you seem to think that the ruling elite is the government so no wonder you have a different definition, the ruling elite are the owners of the huge corporations that buy senators so that only the laws that they want passed get passed. we all know that if someone waves enough money in front of a government official they will be corrupted and what sucks is it's legal, but anyways that wasn't the point i was even trying to make. i was talking about how annoying the rich elite's accents are

[gnikrnov]

LOL. Lets look at the "ruling elite" in the U.S. Obama - He's a WHITE anglo saxon protestant who sounds like he's doing a British accent? How about Speaker of the House Pelosi (a Catholic) or Senate Majority Leader Reid (a Mormon). I guess you and I have different defintions of white and protestant.

[TheHappydead]

Frasier has a pretty cool accent .

[efisgpr]

@aliensexgangchildren nice username, LOL

[JohnDavidHeptinstall]

@aliensexgangchildren I'm sure it depends which part of the British Isles. Unless you're thinking of just a posh English accent, then yeah American ones are more annoying

[gloomyoutlook]

@aliensexgangchildren

And it seems of no consequence that this means they descend from bloody Puritans! That would be something I'd actively attempt to conceal from my lineage rather than boast of it.

[kemp10]

@aliensexgangchildren i think that was his feeble attempt at trying to sound british. no one talks like that over here and im pretty sure we dont have a posh accent

[janeeyre1990]

@kemp10 We don't use the word "posh", but my grandma is from the South and she has an affected posh accent. She says the phrase "at all" as one word and generally tries to sound snobby. Think Southern Bell meets British.

[EbsNhexz]

@janeeyre1990 British is a blanket adjective. When you said `Southern Belle meets British` that could technically mean mixing the accent of Dixie Land high society with a full on regional accent like scouse or glaswegian..which wouldn't sound snobby but would be an epic thing to hear.

(I know what you mean really, i'm just being a prick like the menus and that shitehawk wine whore)

[janeeyre1990]

@EbsNhexz Yes, "British" is a blanket adjective, but fortunately from the miracle of context you can infer that I meant a posh English accent, like from Oxfordshire.

[EbsNhexz]

@janeeyre1990 Like I said I was just following the wine whores example an being deliberately annoying. Although you would be liar if you said a Southern Bell-Scouse crossover wouldn't be something you wanted to hear. =D

[janeeyre1990]

@EbsNhexz What about a Southern Belle-Geordie crossover?

[EbsNhexz]

@janeeyre1990 That would be abhorrent and against nature! probably sound like chalk on a blackboard.

[SeventhEve]

@aliensexgangchildren his accent is weird. sounds like a New England WASP who's lived in Britain for so long he's picked up some of the lilts and vowels.

[zizhiqu]

To really put the icing on the pretentious menu cake, they managed to spell 'ceviche' wrong. Spelling mistakes are fine on menus, so long as you're in a cheap and cheerful family-run place. More spelling mistakes, better the food.

[ELREndLondonRule]

@zizhiqu True. You can't beat a Bruger and Fies

[brandfan001]

I always thought that someone should do a master chef sketch where, when the last table is revealed (1min 42 here) there is a dead body sprawled across it. Just a thought.

[HoffmansACID]

watch the vic and bob master chef sketch theres no dead body but its funny

[brandfan001]

I've seen the Vic and Bob sketch before. I just watched it again. It's very funny. Vic's Lloyd Grossman impression is perfect.

[HoffmansACID]

i know floating about like an american specter

[brandfan001]

Yeah, with a knife and fork for index fingers. It's an excellent sketch, thanks for reminding me about it.

[benfoldsfiver]

cabbage sausage and beer sounds good to me, but then again i'm irish!

[ovavoo]

I take it all rich halls fans....are 6ft and over now....i thought he was brilliant in this....and im 6ft 3 : )

[brown0eyed0wanderer]

I'm a guy, 5'6,4" and I like him too ^_^

[ovavoo]

: ) Do you try and wear a suit?

[seamuslowe]

... five foot six ... and four inches...

five foot six inches ... and four inches.

so ur either five ten or thick as mince.

[brown0eyed0wanderer]

5 foot and 6,4 inches is what it says there ^_^

[Raida7]

5'4" here, love Rich Hall's comedy! :D

[ir5ac]

I once went to a restaurant where the menu had (and forgive my spelling) "grilled poisson avec pomme frites with petis pous accompanying". So fish chips and peas......

[Predking1234]

German if im not mistaken ?

[ir5ac]

no, french. french food is meant to be really nice. German food is reputed to be cabbage, sausages and beer.

[aliensexgangchildren]

haha who knows? calling those bready things biscuits is a thing more in the southern states than other places even in america (but they serve them in KFC everywhere so idk)

[dyl650]

lol at bavavoir

[britishleylandcrap]

Masterchef used to bore the life out of me

[WTP2k]

3.59 How unimpressed does Oz clark look lol

[gorley25]

i agree with 30 galleons soz if i clicked on bad comment i was going for good and i clicked on the wrong one

[speckle126]

Rich Hall is so damn attractive!

[LuvLennonMcCartney]

i can't stand those stupid fuckin menu's

what the fuck you gonna do with a thimble of couscous?

[psychobollox]

sling it at the fucking chef!

hard!

:P

[DanRaccoon]

Nadge of salmon

Thimble of couscous

What a load of upper-middle class wank.

[30Galleons]

I fucking hate wine people

[jeremyshambles]

yeah i lived in georgia for a while and at parties my parents would fry fish and make these things called "hush puppies" as well as "cheese grits". both were pretty tasty but it seemed rather unhealthy as well as a bit stodgy. The hush puppies ,me thinks, are deep fried corn bread type dumplings sort of similar to the corn dog breading. Im into mexican food at the moment, avocado-tacos and bean and rice burritos, lovely.

[aliensexgangchildren]

yea grits i think are a strictly southern US thing, and what we call biscuits kind of is too in a way (what southern people call biscuits is a baked bready thing sort of like a scone to you brits i guess)

[khajiit92]

wtf? how the hell can you call that biscuits? biscuits are what americans call 'cookies'!

sorry if i seem rude, but that just seems crazy to me lol.

[cdmanjak]

actally we have cookies as well as biscuits

[khajiit92]

really? i thought they were the same thing o_0

whats the difference?

is it some small difference like one has butter or something?

[threecardmontegirl]

did she say theres a little bit of meat,or a little bit of mint?

[reemlsilkworm]

Love this guy rich hall, I must admit though that I prefer it when he swears...He swears in a very funny way!

BTW until recently corn dogs were sold at asda and (wall mart for you yanks), they are absolutely gorgeous and yes, a nightmare on the old viens....mmmm corrndogs...

[Zetapie]

It's sad, but seems to be true that all the things that taste good are really bad for you. Grits aren't that bad, though. It's ground corn mixed with butter and I think milk. It's like porridge.

[Zetapie]

Are corn dogs really not all that famous? I mean, you'll really only find them at baseball games or NASCAR races, but I thought our friends across the pond would have heard of them.

[Pantheonband]

Perhaps some Brits are like me - they have heard of them but don't know what they are. I obviously knew it must involve a sausage of some kind, but other than that I hadn't a clue! It was interesting to find out. :-)

[Zetapie]

Rich's description is a tiny bit off though. They are, indeed, hotdogs on sticks. But they're dipped in cornbread batter then deep fried, so they're soft. They're really tasty (if you like hotdogs) but very very bad for you.

[stewiechewie]

but all good things are bad for you. what is grits thought?

[tekiclutch]

It's like a corn porridge sort of thing. I don't know where you are, but if you know what polenta is, it's kind of the same thing. It's almost exclusive to the southern US. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and I get weird looks if I try to order it up here.