David Beckham teams up with foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay
When soccer legend David Beckham, often called the 鈥渦ltimate role model for kids,鈥� decided to back a string of pie and mash cafes he made the distasteful choice of setting a bad example for young fans by teaming with a foul-mouthed bully chef Gordon Ramsay.听 is an East London classic that originated with dock workers and consists of a meat pie, mashed potatoes and eel sauce.
As parents we love Mr. Beckham, Mr. Ramsay, however, is a parent鈥檚 worst nightmare for his constant swearing, brutal berating of those he works with on various TV shows, and generally bad attitude.
I marvel that a man who has done so much good by saving failing restaurants via the show Kitchen Nightmares, can be so widely reviled. Today I marvel again that Beckham is so drawn to this sort of person.
According to the Irish Independent, 鈥淭he ex-footballer聽is said to be plotting a worldwide pie and mash takeover with foul-mouthed Gordon.鈥�
In 2010 Beckham and Ramsay registered the name PM - which stands for Pie & Mash - under their joint initials DBGR with the Intellectual Property Office, according to the London Sun.
At last, my husband and I have found common parenting ground. Hubby and I are always on different frequencies, he鈥檚 the drill sergeant and I鈥檓 the persuader.听聽
This issue is likely to unite the kids as well and all it took was a soccer icon putting on a Ramsay uniform.
A month ago when my husband, who works for a newspaper in Virginia was scanning the news feed and ran across exhibiting his usual swear fare聽he brought it to my attention.
鈥淭he kids are never to watch this man,鈥� he said in his no-nonsense-this-is-final voice. 鈥淲ho behaves like this? What kind of person would allow this man to behave this way?鈥�
The answers is that raw mean sells faster than school supplies in August.
I told my husband we already had the No Ramsey Rule after they boys and I caught an episode that became too maddening to watch for two of my teens because, as Avery, 14, pointed out at the time, 鈥淭here are just too many bleeps to make sense of what he鈥檚 saying to anyone.鈥�
Therefore the reaction to Beckham partnering with none other than Ramsay was predictable at our house.
Quin, 9, aptly put it, 鈥淭his is not Metroman joining forces with Megamind, it鈥檚 like Dr. Who being BFFs with a Dalek. It鈥檚 just wrong.鈥�
The Beckham-Ramsey restaurants are said to be a 鈥済lobal鈥� pursuit, according to The Irish Independent. I can promise you that we will not be dining there because mean leaves a bad taste in our mouths. Nobody can bend us on this one, not even Beckham.
