Article: Something's rotten in our restaurants; 'Kitchen Nightmares' will make you laugh, make you sick and make you think

'KITCHEN NIGHTMARES'

Rating 3 1/2 out of 4

8 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays on WFLD-Channel 32

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On "Kitchen Nightmares," chef Gordon Ramsay visits restaurants in middle-class America, and he finds larvae, bugs, rotten meat and moldy food almost everywhere he looks.

"It's not a 'crab' cake," he says at one eatery. "It's a 'crap' cake, because I feel if I eat any more, I'll be [passing gas] for the next 105 years."

This is not something you want to watch while chowing at home. The visuals are yucky.

But it's a very entertaining public service. Merely by showing us how average eateries fail, Ramsay might egg all of us into being more suspicious of food we eat out.

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