Gordon Ramsay's Lamb Sauce - Know Your Meme

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About

Gordon Ramsay's Lamb Sauce refers to a series of shitpost style images referencing a 2006 episode of Hell's Kitchen in which Chef Gordon Ramsay berates a kitchen full of chefs, demanding to know where the lamb sauce is for a dish.

Origin

In a clip from a 2006 episode of his show Hell's Kitchen, Ramsay profanely berates a kitchen of chefs, eventually demanding to know where the lamb sauce is for a dish (shown below).

Spread

The clip inspired several YouTube Poop and remix videos in the coming years, becoming one of the more widely referenced clips of the show.

On December 18th, iFunny[9] user CaillouV6 (formerly RawJimmiesV3) posted an image that edited Ramsay's to be glowing and purple, captioned "lamb sauce located" (shown below). The clip found renewed interest following a Reddit post on /r/dankmemes posted by Harryy301[1] on December 23rd, 2016. The image has gained 728 points as of January 4th, 2017.

Gordon Ramsay cannot locate the lamb sauce amb sauce oa t e d

The following day, Reddit user lordtriad[2] posted an image to the same subreddit that made the front page of /r/all comparing memes he used to like, using an image of Business Cat, to memes he likes now, using Harryy301's post. The image, shown below, gained over 16,000 points.

type of memes i used to like WE NEED TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX ISHIT IN THERE type of memes i like now lamb sauce L o cat e d

After lordtriad's post, posters edited Gordon Ramsay searching for lamb sauce into other meme templates. A thread on /r/memeeconomy [3] posted on December 30th, 2016, claimed the memes were on the rise and should be a definite "buy." The same day, user Sakoori-kun[4] posted a thread to /r/OutOfTheLoop asking about the origins of the Lamb Sauce resurgence.

On January 4th, 2017, The Daily Dot[5] and Eater[6] also covered the surge of Gordon Ramsay Lamb Sauce memes. On the same day, Twitter user Weirdo_alert_57 [7] asked Gordon Ramsay that has he located the lamb sauce, and Gordon Ramsay acknowledged the meme publicly for the first time by replying the question. On January 9th, 2017, Gordon Ramsay shared a lamb sauce post[8], shown below, on his official Instagram account. The post has gained over 30.000 likes, as of January 11th, 2017.