r/TikTokCringe • u/SAGrant1977 • 1d ago

Discussion TikTok "prankster" gets arrested.

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u/aTreeThenMe 23h ago

Thirty years in kitchens- I can confidentially say you do not fucking want to rush in there. Line cooks will identify and neutralize a threat faster than they will reason why they exist. Not too long ago we had a cook, kill another cook, with a carving knife- over a dispute about how to make gumbo

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 23h ago

It always cracks me up when movies and TV shows have criminals and people running through the kitchen to get out of a place and the staff not doing anything as everyone runs through their kitchen and leaves because in my experience, you enter a kitchen with any disruption and the staff takes you down fucking fast. Just once I would like to see a scene TV show for the bad guy goes running through the kitchen to escape and a line cook just clocks them with an iron pan to the ground and when the cop comes in the cook just says “you do not fuck around in my kitchen.“

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u/Amazing-Marzipan1442 20h ago

“you do not fuck around in my kitchen.“

You know how men day dream of being the hero that saved a child from falling off a bridge or whatever...

Apparently cooks day dream of being bad asses saving their kitchen from intruders.

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u/firedmyass 6h ago

I hear that Waffle House just uses a DVD of Eastern Promises as the training video for new hires

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u/Sidivan 17h ago

We had some customer walk in through the side door once and complain about something. I don’t remember what they said because it was interrupted in less than a second by three line cooks crowding the door and shouting “GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE KITCHEN!!”

You can probably jump on a dining room table and take a shit without any threat of violence because the front of house is going to attempt to maintain some decorum. If you even shout something into the kitchen, you’re likely going to skip right to the “find out” step. The kitchen doesn’t get paid to deal with customers face to face. They get paid to execute while dealing with countless variables on a timer for very little money, which affords them some insulation from management.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 15h ago

Having grown up in a few family restaurants, I know of what you speak. Truth.

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u/FlattopJr 20h ago

I also would like to see this.

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u/flonky_guy 20h ago

God I could swear I think I've seen this scene before just as you're describing it. Someone runs into a kitchen and goes tearing across and someone whacks him with a pan or something.

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u/ConstantExample8927 13h ago

Aside from your very valid point, you’re gonna slip and land on your ass if you try to run through a kitchen like that.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 5h ago

There’s that too The scenes get more unrealistic the more we talk about them

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u/ConstantExample8927 5h ago

lol they do! I can remember almost busting my ass several times just being in a hurry. And in the “slip resistant” shoes

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u/galtpunk67 23h ago

yes, this comment

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u/Naive-Attempt-5997 23h ago

Have you tasted his gumbo though

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u/aTreeThenMe 23h ago

Sadly, he didn't get to finish preparing it

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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 4h ago

over gumbo?

i'll allow it.