Paul McCartney, the former Beatle who looks most like your nan, usually only likes to fight people with fewer legs than him.
But now the gloves have come off, because Paul McCartney has just squared up to testicle-faced TV chef Gordon Ramsay in a magazine over a comment the chef made about wanting to electrocute some vegetarians. It’s literally the most dramatic fight between two funny-looking millionaires about vegetables that Sainsbury’s Magazine has ever seen.
But who to side for? On one hand Paul McCartney was in the most famous band of all time and wrote Yesterday and Hey Jude, and on the other Gordon Ramsay can cook dinner quite well. Oh, this is a right bloody dilemma.
Gordon Ramsay is known for a handful of things. Firstly he’s single-handedly changed the way that British cooking is seen around the world. Secondly he’s got a bit of a dirty mouth and a freakishly monomaniacal fixation on his own droopy manboobs.
Thirdly, Gordon Ramsay hates vegetarians. He hates vegetarians so much that on the last series of The F Word he spent an entire season rearing two veal calves – the cruelest meat of them all, remember – only to shove slices of their dead bodies into the terrified mouths of 50 vegetarians on the final episode to prove his superiority over them, presumably because nobody would let him swagger around slapping everyone in the chops with his willy instead.
How much does Gordon Ramsay hate vegetarians? Let’s put it in Gordon Ramsay’s own words:
“My biggest nightmare would be if the kids ever came up to me and said “Dad, I’m a vegetarian”. Then I would sit them on the fence and electrocute them.”
And this hatred of the poor protein-strapped vegetarians has struck a nerve with Paul McCartney. He’s been a staunch vegetarian for 30 years because he once saw a fish that looked a bit sad or something. And when he hears Gordon Ramsay trash-talk his feeble brethren like that, there’s only one thing he can do about it.
And that’s trash-talk back. In Sainsbury’s Magazine. At a time that coincidentally happens to be right before he relaunches the Linda McCartney range of vegetarian sausages. The man clearly means business. Here’s what Paul McCartney said:
“I think it’s a case of live and let live. I will talk to people about the advantages of vegetarianism, and it will upset me if we’ve had a good conversation and they turn around and say something stupid. I just read a quote from Gordon Ramsay… ‘If my daughter ever grew up and married a vegetarian, I’d never forgive her.’ But even that I would forgive because it’s not my affair, it’s not up to me if he talks stupid or not.”
Yeah! That’s, um, mildly giving it to him! You’ll politely show Gordon Ramsay that you, um, considered his views in depth before coming to a differing viewpoint! Grrr!
Anyway, this Paul McCartney/ Gordon Ramsay face-off looks set to rage on for ages, or at least until everyone gets a bit bored of it and finds something else to entertain themselves with. So probably a couple of minutes or so, in truthfulness.
Really, though, Gordon Ramsay got off lightly. Paul McCartney isn’t a man you want to cross. At least not when you’re anywhere near the wine glass cupboard, anyway. Allegedly.
Lizzie D says
I am absolutely disgusted after hearing what gordon said,I myself am a vegetarian and have been for the last year and I have such great admiration for Paul and all he does for animals & for gordon to say something like that, about his own daughter, just shows exactly how sick & evil he really is. In all honesty what is so bad about vegetarians, i really dont understand why so many people have a problems with it, were doing nothing wrong & its our decision not to eat meat because we actually care about animals.
So to finish I just want to say im behind Paul all the way, He is an absolute legend in every way!
Also Im looking forward to the relaunch of Linda’s vegetarian foods =]
Sarah says
meat is murder…tasty, tasty murder.
J Bollocks says
Vegetable/nut sausages and burgers are why everyone hates vegos.
All that time and effort to make vegetables look like meat, surely that says that meat is actually better than vegetables doesn’t it?
You won’t find me trying to turn my t-bone steak into some sort of tofu.
mughal says
hare rama hare krishna you will be eaten in the next life you stupid fool gordon was to polite to you old fart.
MG says
Gordon Ramsay is a fool,
Stuart Heritage you are too
Lilly says
There needs to be an island, separate rom all civilisations, on which we exile vermin like Gordon Ramsay. Just because there is a pretentious portion of the population that want to pretend his cooking is anything special, the world must be bombarded by this mean-spirited, hateful, monster who probably says half this stuff just for shock value. He is like some obnoxious, bully child. If we’d ignore him he’d go away, but we never do.
Now he has cheated on his wife… what a shock.
I wish there was such an island – one with no animals, only plants to live off and VERY harsh and lonely conditions.
Alisha says
I hate gordon ramsey with a passion!
words cant even describe how much I hate him!
I am a vegetarian, sooo it really upsets me reading all this.
I feel soooo sorry for his kids because they are gonna grow up being nasty meat eaters and having no respect for animals!
all because of him.
like say if they wanted to be vegetarians then so let them be it, its their own choice.
I hate him and tbh im soooo glad he aint my dad lol!!
alls he seems to do for a living is slag off vegetarians, and kill animals and eat them! sicko, get a life.
pete says
Humans eat meat, and have always eaten meat. It is true that we eat way more than we are supposed to in this day and age.
So….Eat meat, but not too often. Animals eat other animals and so forth. We are animals too, just very complex and intelligent ones. That doesn’t mean we should stop eating meat. I think we try to make nature look a lot more complicated than it is.
Hans Christian Vang says
Well, anyone who thinks that all veal is cruel is wrong. Period.
I do wish people would do a little research once in a while, before opening their mouth on the internet.
It’s even been shown on the television series referred to in this article, The F Word, that british veal is reared humanely and free-range, etc. so it’s more cruel NOT to eat it, as you’re hurting a budding industry doing it RIGHT.
Lizzie S says
I’ve just watched Kitchen Nightmares here in the States – the one on Boneparte’s and I totally agree with the owner, Sue, Ramsay did a real hatchet job on the restaurant and made the poor lad look stupid (where’s Parkie when you need him). You know what is heart-breaking is that if that poor lad had been given the right encouragement and coaching the whole situation and the restaurant could have been turned around. I much prefer Jamie Oliver – I think he has a decent heart and at least he tries to help youngsters.
I think Ramsay is one of the most vile men in TV – it’s not just his potty mouth I object to, it’s his sick twisted mind. I think Ramsay is an extremely talented man with a very good brain and he doesn’t need make fun of poor Northern ppl. I was born in Lancashire and I take great exception to Scottish Southerners (I can’t remember whether he was born in London) take the ‘mickey’ out of us!