In the kitchen there are many arts to learn...this one is "Scumbag"

Sometimes then you are working hard for the money (and I'm sure this happens everywhere)...you will get stressed at some point, usually because of a lazy employee, and have a small breakdown. This is the point where the art of a scumbag comes in to play. I even like to refer to it as simply "scumbaging someone" or perhaps "what a scummy move".
This art is very delicate and must always be done with the utmost discretion. Once you get the hang of the game you will defiantly appreciate the reaction you get from your superiors or co-workers. At this point I must remind everyone I just learned this art from a dedicated workplace somewhere in Ames Iowa. One of these bar restaurant places that try to crank food out like burger king.

Scumbag maneuvers usually refer to a stocking or rotating problem. It is usually something the night crew will do to the morning crew and then in return the morning will leave the kitchen a mess and empty for the night crew.
It is unfortunate that I am usually part of the morning crew and my discipline would keep me on task....however I got over that after a while.
Ex.
Some prawn purposefully leaves something empty on the front line that will be most likley needed first thing in the morning.
In on kitchen that may be cooked bacon strips
In another kitchen it cold be mixed lettuce
Either way something like that if not caught quick enough would be scummy.

Anyhow that would be the first lesson in the art of scumming. It is not always some prawns fault, however negligence is not an excuse.

Five hours to go...and one more shift

Tonight was a little stressful and frustrating but all things considered everything went well. However there seems to be this bad idea about restaurants in Ames being similar to burger king and Mc Donalds...only these higher class establishments sell liquor as well...

If you want a terrible burger made the way you like it please save me the trouble and go to a drive through. Everyone knows you don't want to spend the money...I am getting off topic


Five more hours until I hit overtime. Tonight I clocked out at 75 even...which is a little odd but cool. I have one more shift tomorrow scheduled for five hours...but I may have to show up early. Tomorrow is mothers day..and in the life of a prawn that doesn't change anything. Burgers will always need to be cooked...and vegetables will always need to be portioned.

I cannot wait until I have a kitchen of my own...where opinions will be welcomed and everyone will feel respected and comfortable.

Everything looks nice at the top of the hill...

When I say prawn I am not talking shrimp...but I am talking prawn as in "Get away from me prawn" ...here is when I use a visual to of a real prawn

This is the prawn that began the whole "Prawn" movement.

The whole joke started off with the movie "District 9" and a crazy chef I like to refer to as squeeks or stinks. He would always roll through the kitchen "hey girl" this and "yooo man" that. Anyhow we got to joking around calling kitchen work a prawns life because in the movie no one had any respect for the prawns....there were a few other analogies but the main point was no one wanted to get close to a prawn because they were dirty ugly creatures at the bottom of the food chain....

The title refers to the natural flow from order to disorder....everything looks nice at the top of the hill where all our awesome customers sit and eat. Customers....what a joke, at best they are wild animals that stick in flocks and packs. Customers....the very same people that read through the menu decide it has nothing good and try and make something different that would be better. Endless food mods...at some point I want to throw all the menus in the garbage...they serve us no purpose anymore except to give our customers an idea of a good dinner....

These chains are those I chose for myself

There is something to be said about hard work and the character built because of the struggle...
However there is plenty to be taken into consideration...
Everyone seems to think I put myself in the position willingly...that was true but the job I signed up for was only to be a chef.
What I have to do is much worse...and enduring some conditions begin to ware and tear. The prawn is pushed to its limits more often than not.

Soo what exactly is a Prawn...

Okay so what exactly is a prawn?

A prawn is the lowest level of scum sucker. We the prawns are the outcast of society and generally we stick to the shadows. The best place to find some good prawns is in the back of any decent restaurant. The prawns cook the food, prep the menu and clean everything in sight....always cleaning and always prepping. There truly ain't no rest for the wicked... The prawns are responsible for literally everything that goes on in a restaurant especially when something goes wrong.   

What is a Prawn?

Have you ever worked in the Food Industry?



The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the scope of the modern food industry.

There are many levels of involvement in the food industry...a prawn are those of us who do all the leg work. The prawns are the countless chefs and line cooks who put together your meals every day every night.

It seems the only people who know how to act in a restaurant are those of us who have already worked in a kitchen before. We the prawns give up our weekends....we the prawns cut and prep endlessly so you and your selfish friends can make a mess and cause a ruckus.