Being a chef seems like a pretty sweet gig, huh? I’m surprised that more Americans don’t try and get into that business. I mean, your job is making food; that’s pretty cool. It’s not like it’s an occupation that’s ever going to lose its demand. No matter how bad the economy gets, acquiring food is always gonna be a relatively high priority. Right behind socks.
It’s not hard to be a chef either. There are a lot of people who claim to be bad cooks-such as all men up through the 1950s. Yet there isn’t very much to cooking, is there? Essentially it consists of time management and a will to put in the energy to cook. Everybody can follow instructions, it’s just a matter of starting everything at the right time so that everything’s done when you want it. However, the will not to cook is strong in Americans. (We shouldn’t have come, we’re endangering the mission) I mean, this is the country that created EZ Mac because, well, the original Kraft Macaroni & Cheese was just too much effort. But when you’re a chef, you get paid to have that will. Plus eventually you can get sous- Chefs which are essentially people that do the dirty work for you/people whose friends thought Susan was just too long/people who are lawyers who fight hard for food poisoning victims.
Finally, there’s the best part of being a chef. The clothes! The shirt and apron make sense. They convey that sense of cleanliness and professionalism that you want to see in a chef. Now most people are amazed by the hat. I think the hat makes sense. Hats are essentially used for identification. So people made a big tall white hat so that whenever people saw it they’d think “Chef”. I mean, it’s not like policeman hats make a great deal of practical sense. Nor stockbroker hats. It’s actually the chef pants that really get me. It’s obvious at this stage of the game they just decided to get crazy. What they came up with could be likened to pajama pants but often with even weirder patterns. God knows if you’re gonna be cooking all day then you’d better have comfortable pants. But then again, God knows everything. Considering that, it’s remarkable that He’s no more snooty.