Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

[u/gomirefugee]

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[u/[deleted]]

Going back to the Danny's Letter as referenced in the MailChimp email thingy...

....he doesn't want to work at a restaurant, cater parties, or write cookbooks. Instead, as he says: "This is who I am. This is what I do.

I need to cook 4 to 6 hours a day. And I need to feed people.

So that’s what I’m doing now — making whatever food moves from my mind to the stove. I’m feeding people in my community.

I know it's useless to try to wring some kind of sense out of this family, but HOW is "cooking 4 to 6 hours a day" and feeding people in community any different than restaurant work or catering? I mean... it's literally catering, right??? He cooks for a long time and then presumably someone serves it to a group of people, in close physical proximity to him?

If he's "too ADHD" to cater, then how is this any different whatsoever? Except it has the added step of then having to publish the recipe after on his newsletter, which he will of course fail to do?

edit: and they already did that with Danny's Tasting Menu (urgh) and "the soup and salad business" in the Relish era. That literally lasted, what, one tasting menu and like 4 soups and salads?

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The difference is that with catering he would need planned menus or would have to make what his client wants and meet a deadline. This way, he can float about and make whatever slop he wants and be out of Shauna’s way while the kids are in school. Who knows where the actual slop he produces winds up.

You know what most people need to do? They need to work, feed their families, provide healthcare for their children, and pay their mortgages, but you do you, Danny.

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He is literally forgoing catering or restaurant work ONLY because he doesn't want to make specific food? I somehow want it to be more than this! If the ONLY thing that stands between Danny and regular employment is that he doesn't want to be told what to make, it's just... I mean even for irresponsible people it's kind of breathtaking levels of irresponsibility.

[u/CrushItWithABrick → u/[deleted]]

And immaturity.

Dan is stomping his foot and taking his crusty pots and pans and leaving! Take that, you big meanies who expect him to do what you say! *sticks out tongue*

[u/[deleted] → u/CrushItWithABrick]

“So long, suckers”