Facepalms4Everyone

Like this.

(From the much-better-and-therefore-now-closed Ed Debevic's in Chicago. Yes, they're all in on it.)

Hey man, love the vids. Picked them up early from here, and it's nice to see we share the same tastes in shows we like to have on as background filler.

On the dessert side of things, how about Rachel's trifle from "Friends" (let us know if it, indeed, tastes like FEET), or Chef's chocolate salted balls from "South Park"? The latter has a recipe in the lyrics.

You know a better way to pay these people a living wage to put in the time to investigate and report it?

This seems like the crux of the issue right here. I have no doubt you are responsible for a great many things that no passenger can even fathom, but if you're doing your job right, and everything is going smooth on the flight, to the majority of your passengers, shouldn't you mostly be a great server/dispute resolver? You've got plenty else to worry about, of course, and it's largely thankless because it's all behind the scenes, but I would think the goal should be to be on alert for all of the behind-the-scenes stuff while presenting a countenance of a great helper. I don't think the passenger should be required to account for a bunch of things that they don't know about, especially if those things are being purposefully kept from them unless it's necessary.

It seems that the training is to emphasize all the things that could go wrong and all the catastrophic scenarios you could be thrust into, which has the effect of turning you into Batman -- constantly alert for the next major problem, expecting it to be a matter of when, not if -- with no focus on service and the fact that, on 99 percent of flights, the most interaction you'll have with a passenger is serving them food/drink or delivering a blanket or pillow. Sounds like the overemphasis on safety -- and enforcing rules such as carry-on limits and tight boarding/deplaning times and whose bag will or won't fit in the overhead bin -- is coming at the expense of customer service.

Word, I hear ya. I think for me, the homemade takes on delicious recipes get a slight edge over real-life iterations of sometimes-terrible figments of writers' imaginations, but they're neck and neck. I racked my brain and could only think of those in the latter category, so there you go.

Since this is an AMA, if you have time for a follow-up: How is each episode planned? Source the ingredients/create an actual recipe over time, then procure and cook it in one day? Is there a method to the madness or is it mostly on a whim?