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What if you are a some what amateur pastry chef and are asked to cater a small party. You make these cupcakes and they accidentally turn out really well. They are rich and flavourful and are like nothing the guests have ever tasted before. People who swore to hate cupcakes are going gaga for these. The guests gobble them up and ask for more and more.
Then you get a call that you have been asked to cater a huge event. It's a great opportunity for you. You decide to use the same recipe you used for the small party but with some careful changes to allow for it to feed more people. The ingredients are not as good and the cupcakes are not as rich or intensely flavourful, but still all the people at the big event love your cooking and since many of them never attended the other party you catered, they don't know the difference anyway.
Meanwhile you have left all your original ingredients back at the smaller party and they have hired a new chef. Unfortunately, you didn't leave the new guy any instructions and he doesn't bother to find out that you were making cupcakes, takes the same ingredients and tries to make cookies instead. These cookies are awful because they are made from cake batter and the guests at the party are fuming 😡
The new chef steps out for a minute and asks the guy who mixes the batter to take over for him while he is gone. The mixer has always been mixing in the background and knows he is supposed to make cupcakes and not cookies so he goes about doing that, the guests smell the cupcakes they have been longing for, when suddenly the new chef comes back and yanks the cupcakes out of the oven when they are half baked. He says he has an idea to make the cookies great! He has a new ingredient.
He adds it and for a while the guests are interested by this new flavour. Then he runs out of his new ingredient and starts churning out the same cookies again, which are still awful because they are still made out of now stale cake batter. Every now and then one of his sous chefs sneaks a batch of cupcakes in the oven but it's never enough for everyone at the party.
Once again the guests are fuming and they demand to see the chef, tell him what a terrible job he is doing. He claims he is being forced to make the cookies like this against his will, when actually he fails to understand that the guests don't want better cookies, they want cupcakes. He pretends to cave under the criticism and claims he will stop cooking for the party.
So the present situation:
There is still some batter left. It's not a lot but it's there.
Maybe the hosts of the party feel it's best if the guests just leave the party because they can't seem to salvage this situation and they don't know how long they will keep getting paid to make pastry at this small party.
On the other hand the food at the bigger event is a huge success and you are getting paid a lot more money both for ingredients and for the outcome, even though the cupcakes there are not as rich and don't have ingredients of as high quality. They are mass produced. But it is selling more and more with time and you are guaranteed business for an indefinite period of time. It's looking good.
BUT the guests at the small party refuse to leave or let the kitchen close until they get cupcakes and insist that they can see the bowl of batter, why isn't it being made into the cupcakes they want so badly to eat?
Meanwhile the pompous and ignorant new chef, who has not left, continues to churn out batches and batches of these terrible cookies that are fast becoming inedible (and the hosts don't seem to care as long as there is something being served). Yet a few guests who refuse to leave the party force it down, savouring the rare moments when they can taste the essence of the cupcakes they loved, always hoping for more cupcakes...someday.
Thanks for reading, if you got this far. This was just an analogy that popped into my head when I was thinking about the situation with 4Lions and GHSP and discussing it with a friend. It's not really expressing an opinion or a POV, just a different way to look at the situation. I hope you like it!
Then you get a call that you have been asked to cater a huge event. It's a great opportunity for you. You decide to use the same recipe you used for the small party but with some careful changes to allow for it to feed more people. The ingredients are not as good and the cupcakes are not as rich or intensely flavourful, but still all the people at the big event love your cooking and since many of them never attended the other party you catered, they don't know the difference anyway.
Meanwhile you have left all your original ingredients back at the smaller party and they have hired a new chef. Unfortunately, you didn't leave the new guy any instructions and he doesn't bother to find out that you were making cupcakes, takes the same ingredients and tries to make cookies instead. These cookies are awful because they are made from cake batter and the guests at the party are fuming 😡
The new chef steps out for a minute and asks the guy who mixes the batter to take over for him while he is gone. The mixer has always been mixing in the background and knows he is supposed to make cupcakes and not cookies so he goes about doing that, the guests smell the cupcakes they have been longing for, when suddenly the new chef comes back and yanks the cupcakes out of the oven when they are half baked. He says he has an idea to make the cookies great! He has a new ingredient.
He adds it and for a while the guests are interested by this new flavour. Then he runs out of his new ingredient and starts churning out the same cookies again, which are still awful because they are still made out of now stale cake batter. Every now and then one of his sous chefs sneaks a batch of cupcakes in the oven but it's never enough for everyone at the party.
Once again the guests are fuming and they demand to see the chef, tell him what a terrible job he is doing. He claims he is being forced to make the cookies like this against his will, when actually he fails to understand that the guests don't want better cookies, they want cupcakes. He pretends to cave under the criticism and claims he will stop cooking for the party.
So the present situation:
There is still some batter left. It's not a lot but it's there.
Maybe the hosts of the party feel it's best if the guests just leave the party because they can't seem to salvage this situation and they don't know how long they will keep getting paid to make pastry at this small party.
On the other hand the food at the bigger event is a huge success and you are getting paid a lot more money both for ingredients and for the outcome, even though the cupcakes there are not as rich and don't have ingredients of as high quality. They are mass produced. But it is selling more and more with time and you are guaranteed business for an indefinite period of time. It's looking good.
BUT the guests at the small party refuse to leave or let the kitchen close until they get cupcakes and insist that they can see the bowl of batter, why isn't it being made into the cupcakes they want so badly to eat?
Meanwhile the pompous and ignorant new chef, who has not left, continues to churn out batches and batches of these terrible cookies that are fast becoming inedible (and the hosts don't seem to care as long as there is something being served). Yet a few guests who refuse to leave the party force it down, savouring the rare moments when they can taste the essence of the cupcakes they loved, always hoping for more cupcakes...someday.
Thanks for reading, if you got this far. This was just an analogy that popped into my head when I was thinking about the situation with 4Lions and GHSP and discussing it with a friend. It's not really expressing an opinion or a POV, just a different way to look at the situation. I hope you like it!
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