Stocks and sauces

Having been a Chef and worked in the catering industry for 25 years I sometimes find that when I am doing other things I start thinking about cooking and food. I suppose it is only natural that I think about food and cooking and today it was no exception.
For some reason stocks came in to my head. I was preparing a chunky vegetable soup at the time but the stocks I was think about had nothing to do with cooking.



The stocks I was thinking about was the stocks from medieval times where wrong doers used to get put in and people would throw rotting fruit and vegetables at them and be publicly humiliated. Can't for the life of me think why but I did start think to myself who I would like to see thrown in the stocks and then throw fruit and tomatoes at them. On my long list the first people to be put in the stocks would be Politicians and I would be tempted not to take the fruit and tomatoes out of the tin when I threw the contents at them. An old stand up comedians joke I know but worthy of politicians.

The next on my list would be all those CEO's, Chairman's, and big wig's of all those banking and financial institutions that have gone belly up because of their greed and stupidity. Closely followed by all the bosses that use the 'Credit Crunch' and 'Downturn in the Economy' as an excuse to lay off hundreds/thousands of hard working people instead of getting rid of the inept management who are costing their companies millions. Especially if it is just to make a fat payment to the shareholders and they just happen have a couple of millions shares that were given to them for free.



I definitely would not remove the tomatoes and fruit from the tins and instead of using a A2 and a half I would be using an A10.
(An A10 approx 2.95 kg) is a bloody big tin) I then started to think about one or two people that I have had the displeasure to work with and came up with a man that would defiantly go in the stocks and If I had my way he would stay in them and rot.

It's a long story and I might post it later but he was an evil man in my book. To save his own job he aligned himself with upper management, took over the existing managers job (demoted) and started to try and force people out of work and avoid paying redundancy monies to staff that had in some cases been working for the company for over 25 years. He used every nasty trick in the book and did it with a smile on his face. He was that bad he once refused a man a day off work to go to his brothers funeral.

The man requesting time off from work went through all the appropriate channels as laid down by management. He put it in writing and asked if he could use a days holiday entitlement to attend the funeral. He was refused and so he offered to take a day off without pay and work an extra day to cover his shift and still he was refused.

The smile was knocked off his face when the man requesting the time off told him "Go and have a sexual relationship with yourself and I am taking the time off regardless of what you might do". Silly nasty fool of a man was so over confidant that he forgot to have another manager present as a witness and there was nothing he could do.

It made me laugh and as the saying goes "what comes around goes around" as a couple of years later he was getting booted out of his job. But this leads me to ask the question who would you like to see in 'The stocks'?