Culinary medals for what?

 Dear all, my friend Alan was writing a post on culinary medals, and I want to ad my view on this topic

So let's start with this for me absolute ridiculous way of how some private associations and guilds are giving out medals for nothing or some you need to pay for like the world MasterChef society that charges you a couple of hundred quid for a medal worth absolutely nothing and you don't need to prove any skills.

This phenomena is mostly common in culinary handicapped regions like middle east, eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America where some chefs looks like Christmas trees and can't cook a decent risotto for shit, unfortunately this is what the public things and I think throughout my travels I have meet the worst kind, totally without basic knowledge and call themself master chef, what a joke.

I do have some of these medals somewhere but all without value for nothing, but what I do have is the honorary lifetime worldchefs Avard medal that I trolly appreciate and feel humble to have received for my work as a board member.

If you look at the certificate below you will not find a name of any of the world president or chairman, what kind of joke is this?  what is this worth?  this is just an example and there is hundred of suspicious groups like this, what is your take on this? 

All these obscure countries have food traditions for sure and should be taken care of but please, don't call yourself MasterChef if you don't even know the basic skills.

Below is a photo of me taken from internet and they never asked och provide any explanation, even the country of origin is wrong, this kind is circulating around just to give this people some culinary weight that they cannot provide themself, do I care, yes, I do but can't do much about it, people who know they know.