Sayeth the restaurateur: “I would have to say that who has had the largest effect on the whole planet without us really paying attention across the board and everywhere is the entire banking industry and their disregard for the people that are supposed to be working for them [sic]….So the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys…[T]heir evil has had a huge effect on the world.”
Update: According Batali, he was “misquoted,” and Forbes which stands by its story and says everything “is on tape,” should be ashamed of itself.
Celebrity Chef Mario Batali Says Bankers As Bad As Hitler, Stalin [Forbes]
@MarioBatali [Twitter]
This guy better stick to grilling pig nuts.
I wear orange Crocs to work too.
- UBS MD
Find your own pair
- W. Falcone's girlfriend
On another note – I'd like to thank my bankers for financing the opening of my new restaurant in Singapore, and for providing us the credit facilities to meet working capital requirements during the financial crisis.
I'd also like to thank the Singaporean and Swiss bankers who are managing my wealth (limiting tax liabilities) and affording me the opportunity to look as good as I do.
- Batty
Thank god he wore the green socks!
How about all the bankers that are booking tables at babbo, Del posto and co ….? should they stop?
Better lower your prices there, Mario, if you want to reduce the concentration of "evil" finance types in your dining rooms.
Green socks and organe crocs is a greater crime to humanity than anything any banker ever committed.
Bess-
Can we get a "[sic]" tag?
It seems it would get a lot of mileage on bank protest articles.
Man, those are some fruity shoes….meet me at the showers in 10?
Says the guy who is worth north of $25mm.
-OWS Due Diligence Team
God you're fat
- The Chairman
Look mommy, the rhino's getting too close to the car
Nice to see Stalin finally get a shoutout alongside Hitler.
Agreed. They've been noted as mutually exclusive for far too long.
-Goose Egg Steppa
I love those places. I will never go again to any of them, and I am getting the word out. screw him. Great food, a man has got to have his pride. I've never posted here before, waiting for some good snark directed at me.
If you work on the street, have some pride and avoid this gavone.
Hey Batali, shut the fuck up and make me a pannini.
-Mussolini
well perhaps the sandwich fairy will cross del posto, babbo, Eataly, esca & lupa off the list of approved establishments…
Hey Batali, meet me at Minetta's!
Why did I read Goose Egg Steppa and immediately think "I"m the Lyrical Gangsta"?
At least I made the trains run on time!
- Il Duce Mussolini
I did not realize that Mike Myers still goes out dressed as fat bastard.
"I always thought I would do just about anything to get my face in a magazine like Forbes. Turns out this was my line in the sand."
-Girl walking by in the background
I still like it like that.
adding batali places to my david chang list – chefs who are fucking ugly and don't realize that finance/wall st contributes major revenue to their respective businesses
someone should tow that bus parked on the sidewalk next to her.
-the looker
With that type of attitude towards my line of work, I may have to find a new night gig.
-UBS MD ex Babbo busser
Too soon.
Batali you fat bastard I love ya!
-Raj
Mario go shove a cannoli in your fat gullet. What a fucking redheaded nitwit.
Guess he hasn't been in his restaurants in awhile or he'd realize it is filled with diners who are evil bankers.
All right, all right I'll ask her. Miss, miss! Do you know where the high school girls hang out around here? What? What? That's right, I'm the asshole! I'm the asshole! I'm outta here! I'm not eating here… I wouldn't eat here… I'd never eat here anyway!
Mario & M. Moore now an item??
~Curious
Batali and Wollensky; re-branding?
I think he's looking pretty svelte, actually.
Leave me out of it this time
- Jo Pa
I don't think bankers means what you think it means. Unless of course you think banker is synonymous with NY Times Dining & Wine section readers and/or vacationing Midwesterners who saw Mario on the Food Network.
It's kinda hot in these rhinos.
I wanted to like that a few more times but the godamn fascists behind intense debate won't let me. thats right i said it.
That's cute, how you act like you can even get a prime reservation at most of his places.
Mario, you know you're not allowed to speak without first doing the truffle shuffle
I'm calling for reservations for 8 on Thursday night and then not showing up
yes no
Big sunglasses and potential double-chin. Ding Ding! We have a winner!
Batali & Wollensky?
No you're cute lolz! I just sent you a gchat with my pix.
You eat at Babbo you might feel a slight sting. It's not ptomaine. That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Eat. You eat through that shit.
– Marcellus
Yeah, plus you ain't my friend Punchy.
— Vincent
He ………………… is an unfuckable lardass.
I’m not sayin’ the guy is anal because he wears more colors on his feet then my bulldagger cousin but she’s a guy. (xxoo) I’m saying he mimicks the narrative, blame anything western to blame the west and elevate emerging markets. Wonder who he’s invested with??
How will I know it's you?
Are you having a stroke?
Also, the camera angle makes it look like her feet are enormous.
What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So… what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
Your grammar blows.
Good luck with the 99%-ers. I heard they tip extraordinarily well and love the $100+ sampler platters.
Priceless. Definitely not too soon.
its panino (singular) you imbecile
- MB
Please boycott all of Mario Batali's restaurants. What he has said about the banking industry is an un-American insult to all that is good and true. Make him suffer the wrath of the financial industry. Let us withhold our expense accounts forthwith.
…then I wouldn't have to share space with bankster blowhards at his restaurants.
Thanks!
#limosineliberal
P.S. Bar Jamón is particularly offensive and anti-capitalist. Boycott!
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