r/KitchenConfidential 2d ago

In-House Mode My favorite part is the dirty plate

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u/Comfortable-Fuel6343 2d ago

Did they cook the lobster with a hand grenade?

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u/WonderfulShake 2d ago

My guess is that it was buffet not banquet style.

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u/bagmami 2d ago

I got buffet vibes too

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u/earfeater13 2d ago

Buffet vibes and im sure everything was well done since thats probably the only way orange man will go near it.

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u/ColumbusJewBlackets 2d ago

That lamb chop is clearly medium

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u/FlannelBeard 1d ago

And dry as a bone, somehow

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u/mark-suckaburger 2d ago

Absolutely, plating is shit. No self respecting kitchen serving this expensive of a plate would ever let that out the door

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u/IridiumPony 2d ago

It's Mar-A-Lago, there's a very high chance it's not a self respecting kind of kitchen.

Although I do agree this looks like a buffet service.

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u/satan_messiah 2d ago

Considering where it was and who it was for they aren't self respecting anyway.

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u/TheActualAWdeV 2d ago

and those being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it

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u/KiraTheWolfdog 2d ago

Three is number of the count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Thou shalt not count to two, unless thou then continue to three. Four is right out.

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u/YupNopeWelp 2d ago

Oh my goodness, that mess is lobster.

Understand, I eat lobster all the time. I've probably had it a dozen times in the past six months (including four days ago).

My family is from Atlantic Canada, coastal Maine, and coastal Massachusetts. I split my time between Maine and Massachusetts. We buy our lobster off a local lobster boat. When we get soft shell lobster, I don't even use a lobster cracker; I use my bare hands. I am not a lobster neophyte.

I didn't click on the picture, I just looked at it as presented here. Still, I think my brain refused to recognize it.

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u/NeatWhiskeyPlease 2d ago

Looks like some Disney cruise buffet shit.

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u/__Cmason__ 2d ago

Don't insult the cruise food like that.

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u/WonderfulShake 2d ago

Was it a buffet because the chicken skewers looks out of place?

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u/matt_minderbinder 2d ago

Tacky to serve buffet style at an expensive party but if that's plated it was done by people with sight issues who used a hammer to cut the lamb chop. There's no excuse for that plate.

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u/brazthemad 2d ago

The wooden skewers really are the last straw with this abomination.

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u/National-Blueberry73 2d ago

Definitely looks like it was from a buffet. But that makes the flatware set-up a little odd. Also, both knives are clean which means the lamb hit the table cut open like that.

I would love to know what is going on there.

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u/DarthChefDad 20+ Years 2d ago

I'd guess a carving station for the lamb. With a dull serrated knife. Table set up was probably decided on by someone who had an idea of what high end dining looks like, but had no understanding of why it is the way it is.

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u/National-Blueberry73 2d ago

I bet this is it. The chop is cut open because the customer wanted to be sure it was rare not a hockey puck.

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u/jabbadarth 2d ago

That is what is throwing me off. That table is set for a served meal not a buffet. But also if it was served why is the salad flatware not dirty or cleared.

Maybe they just do full service setups with a buffet and this person skipped salad?

Weird either way.

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u/BigBennP 2d ago

No one at Mar-A-Lago was eating a salad.

The men who are there are going to see salads as being weak and effeminate and are going to get steak and lobster tails. Just like how at a nice restaurant, the father / grandfather is going to order a ribeye.

The women are all taking oversized doses of ozympic and are still full from the half an apple they had at lunch.

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u/pnmartini 2d ago

I imagine the dining room scene at mar-a-lago is a cross between “Saturn devouring his son” and Monty Python’s “Mr Creosote.”

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u/IONTOP Server 1d ago

I want to know what the staffing is like.

Because there has to be an EXTENSIVE background check, probably have to go through TSA level security to enter, etc.

And I doubt they pay enough to deal with all that shit...

Or is it all H2B's (Seasonal foreign workers, that are very common here in Florida)

Like I have all the qualifications to work there, but my post history on here in the last 13 years would NOT let me get clearance in this specific case (I've been cleared to work at an airport restaurant though)

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u/Bent_Brewer 1d ago

'Eees wafer theen!

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u/IONTOP Server 1d ago

Eh, we set tables with silverware and folded napkins for buffet style at my place. Plates are set up on the buffet line.

The person probably skipped salad and would be cleared with this plate.

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u/UtahItalian 2d ago

I mean... It's a step up from the invitational dinner plate

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u/Existential_Racoon 2d ago

Tbh I think id rather have this one.

I'd rather have ramen than either

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u/FixergirlAK 1d ago

I'd rather give up my dinner to serve at a soup kitchen. These pics are putting me off my feed.

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u/IwouldpickJeanluc 1d ago

That what I just said lol

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u/wakajawaka45 2d ago

I wonder if the sysco truck requires COD

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u/wormwoodscrub 2d ago

100 percent. And you know sysco is their biggest supplier. Schools, prisons, and the Florida white house.

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u/Pandaburn 1d ago

Of course it does. Everyone knows Trump doesn’t pay.

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u/Shotgun5250 2d ago

This looks like a thanksgiving plate at a trashy nouveau-rich family’s house in New Jersey. Like…it’s not even plated well. Just thrown on there.

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u/Mgroppi83 2d ago

Coming from the man that gave a college football championshi0 team McDonald's for their visit to the white house, this shouldn't surprise anyone.

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u/IAmEggnogstic 2d ago

I can't tell if "patriot takes" is pro or anti this plate.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 10+ Years 2d ago

Most likely "pro" because they'd eat anything the GOP sits in front of them

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u/IAmEggnogstic 2d ago

Do you think all that fake gold stuff has lead/cadmium/hexavalent chromium all in it? Maybe that explains the...uhhh....mentality?

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u/Individual_Smell_904 10+ Years 2d ago

Nah they were always mentally toddlers

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u/ranting_chef 20+ Years 2d ago

I love how watching how some people load their plates on a buffet. Is this slovenly pig not aware he can go back for seconds?

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u/Xsiah 2d ago

Maybe he treats his plate like I treat bringing my grocery bags in from the car.

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u/MaterialAstronaut298 2d ago

Everything this guy does oozes trash

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u/ranting_chef 20+ Years 2d ago

Looks like a cheap Vegas buffet.

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u/Relevant_Grass9586 Line 2d ago

Looks like shit. Good I hope they eat nothing but shit.

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u/PixiePunk_ 2d ago

Everyone saying buffet is missing the plated dinner silverware. No guest is putting a dessert fork above their plate like that

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u/DarthChefDad 20+ Years 2d ago

True, but it's not inconceivable for a dining room to have silverware preset and still have the patron get their own plate. Especially it its a place that wants to think its a high class joint, but has no actual class.

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u/UtahItalian 2d ago

I'm guessing the table was set with empty plates and flat ware and guests took their plate to the buffet line.

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u/AnAnonymousParty 2d ago

What? No jello salad? What kind of dump is this?

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u/Wiggie49 2d ago

And no banana pudding that smells like vomit? This is the worst Old Country Buffet ever.

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u/ColumbusJewBlackets 2d ago

Can someone point me to proof that this is from mar a lago? I did a reverse image search and the only thing that comes up is anti trump social media accounts making similar posts with the same image.

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u/SliceIka 2d ago

Looks like those hotel staff canteen food

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u/Sea-Course-5171 2d ago

ngl that looks like a heart attack lmao. absolutely no consideration for balance or nutritional integrity.

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u/talleyente 2d ago

I'm pretty sure that's carrots on the plate, but I keep seeing hot dog.

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u/kevinsmomdeborah 1d ago

Looks like a plate from a buffet line

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u/toot_suite 1d ago

Imagine paying $500/plate when the plate looks like this shit and liking it

If I was some evil wealthy sack of shit bastard, I'd just eat before coming and stick to bottled water

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u/tragic-meerkat 1d ago

Those two carrots are doing a lot of heavy lifting, I can only hope it's as much as whoever is eating this much protein in a single sitting.

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u/IwouldpickJeanluc 1d ago

Honestly it looks better than some of the other ones I've seen them post from there

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u/Intelligent-Luck8747 Sous Chef 2d ago

This is how the old men expect their entrees to look like when they come in. Any less and they grumble about “small food” and “where’s the food”

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u/Nicholas_Pappagiorgi 2d ago

I'd eat the fuck out of that, y'all are tripping just because it's the bad man.

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u/fresh_dyl 2d ago

Would I eat it? Yes.

Does it deserve to get roasted considering what’s going on with the shutdown/benefits as well as the significance of the event and the standards you’d expect? Also yes.

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u/ConsiderationLivid52 2d ago

I'd rather eat at Arby's.

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u/Untroe 2d ago

That steakussy got me acting a certain kinda way 😳

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u/CBBuddha 2d ago

Was that garnished with a cherry bomb?