Pastry Chef: Immoral and Unethical?

Lots of foods harm people and so do lots of peoples jobs. She doesn't stuff 12 scones down peoples throats they could have portion control. I do agree that these pastries are nutritionally void though. Maybe she can make gluten free/vegan pastries or something

Looking at your replies, you seem like you're being serious about this so I will respond in kind.

If you can't handle being around your friend who makes these delicious treats, then perhaps you should develop better self-control. It's not up to everyone around you to change who they are just so that you and others can lose weight. If your friend wants to be a pastry chef, you should be happy for her and not judgmental. Your friend is not going to shove her pastries down people's throats and make them eat them. Having a delicious pastry once in a while isn't going to make someone fat.

Saying that she's contributing to the obesity epidemic is a ridiculous assertion because there are pastry chefs all over the world, but the obesity epidemic is an American problem (other countries are becoming more obese but we're more known for it). If your friend can't be a pastry chef, then we should stop all manufacturing of cars because people get killed in automobile accidents. They should stop making alcohol too because people get drunk and do stupid things or drink too much over their lifetimes and have health problems. Do you understand how ridiculous this sounds?

Please be happy for your friend.

My only comment would be: do you pay her bills?

If not, then it's none of your business as long as what she is doing is legal.

To think only of yourself is a little shortsighted don't you think? Will you pay for her to get trained in another profession?

My wife and daughter eat carbs at night, but I don't shun them....get over it.

I think the legality of sugar needs to be looked into...it should basically be banned as a controlled substance.

This is coming from a girl who's currently looking into going to pastry school herself. Just cause you're on a diet doesn't mean people can't indulge once in a while on great food they love. What about birthday cake or wedding cake? Bakers do those and if everyone had the mentality you do, everyone would have to eat packaged stuff...which is probably worse for heath in my honest opinion because at least food from a bakery is made with real ingredients. It's like rolling your eyes at a person for becoming a mechanic because he puts cars on the road for all the drunk and reckless drivers. She's not stuffing chocolate into people and making them fat, people are doing that themselves. I get your point of view but I don't agree with it at all and if someone told me they disagree with me following my dream because it makes people fat.....I'd throw a cupcake at them.....but I'm aggressive that way.

You should kill her to save the others. It's the right thing to do.

LOL at first I was thinking this is a joke post but then I got kind of upset over the post and the sanctimonious tone.

Then I read this and it made me laugh, and now I dont care.

If you are a true friend, commit.

Commit to travel with her to Paris. For the pastries. The belly button. And the experience.
Commit to learn why the French make such wonders and stay thin. It's the pastries.
Commit to try them.

And if you fail, there is always Splenda. Think about it ....

i will go...pick me.

This is coming from a girl who's currently looking into going to pastry school herself. Just cause you're on a diet doesn't mean people can't indulge once in a while on great food they love. What about birthday cake or wedding cake? Bakers do those and if everyone had the mentality you do, everyone would have to eat packaged stuff...which is probably worse for heath in my honest opinion because at least food from a bakery is made with real ingredients. It's like rolling your eyes at a person for becoming a mechanic because he puts cars on the road for all the drunk and reckless drivers. She's not stuffing chocolate into people and making them fat, people are doing that themselves. I get your point of view but I don't agree with it at all and if someone told me they disagree with me following my dream because it makes people fat.....I'd throw a cupcake at them.....but I'm aggressive that way.

Honey, I already went to school. What he means is that I just got offered a position in a restaurant.

Trust me, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. It cost me $26,000+interest and there are so many self-taught chefs out there now. You can teach yourself. Just think about it. If I could do it over again, I would never have gone to culinary school.

My only comment would be: do you pay her bills?

If not, then it's none of your business as long as what she is doing is legal.

To think only of yourself is a little shortsighted don't you think? Will you pay for her to get trained in another profession?

My wife and daughter eat carbs at night, but I don't shun them....get over it.

I think the legality of sugar needs to be looked into...it should basically be banned as a controlled substance.

Absolutely. There have been studies on how sugar is just as addictive as crack.

And everyone knows that the added sugars in pastries turn straight to fat as they are metabolised differently.

Show her this documentary to make her understand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKMpTlxTSGM

What you've got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of her leg right at the bottom. She'll never make pastries again, because her weight displacement goes back, all her weight is on her right foot, and she'll push everything off to the right. She'll never make anything even with the rolling pin. She'll quit her job.

bwhahahahahaha +1,000,000 then you can be the Cinderella kid straight out of nowhere

For reals?

If you are a true friend, commit.

Commit to travel with her to Paris. For the pastries. The belly button. And the experience.
Commit to learn why the French make such wonders and stay thin. It's the pastries.
Commit to try them.

And if you fail, there is always Splenda. Think about it ....

The French stay thin because they don't bathe and they eat snails. There's no mystery there. The lack of bathing allows superorganisms to breed on their skin which eat all the fat.

That's it. I'm tearing out the bathtub and finding a snail farm first thing in the morning.

All I need to do is stop the bathing.... Oh, wait I don't bath.




Still overweight.

Oh and the only reason the French arent fat is because they smoke, drink wine, eat small amounts of decadent pastries all day and then combine it with real butter and meat. We need to take a lesson from the French. Viva La France!

It's viva Zapata and vive la France. You know, we French are snooty about language.

A bit overboard in my opinion. You can decline to eat her pastry samplings due to a healthy diet. She's your friend and only following a passion or an art in a specific fashion. I wouldn't be concerned for a friend if they worked at McDonald's or whatever taco joint (one of the things I find hard to turn down) they worked at. Even before I became health conscious, I knew some of the things I ate weren't good for me. That was my decision. That will be her customers responsibility. Plus...moderation. Can't people have a pastry now and then if they so choose? Just seems like you're using your lifestyle as a basis to be outraged. What's worth more: your friendship/her desires or your lifestyle?

What kind of man turns down a woman's warm delicious pastry?



Oh wait. You mean actual pastry? Nevermind then. Carry on. I'll see myself out.

Oh and the only reason the French arent fat is because they smoke, drink wine, eat small amounts of decadent pastries all day and then combine it with real butter and meat. We need to take a lesson from the French. Viva La France!

It's viva Zapata and vive la France. You know, we French are snooty about language.

Keep your shoes away from me, you filthy foreign dog!

Oh and the only reason the French arent fat is because they smoke, drink wine, eat small amounts of decadent pastries all day and then combine it with real butter and meat. We need to take a lesson from the French. Viva La France!

It's viva Zapata and vive la France. You know, we French are snooty about language.

doh!