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  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Don't really get the Jamie hate.
    Always tries to make food fun, flavoursome and nutritious.
    Used whatever influence he has to persuade the nation away from the American model of junk food, obesity and type 2 diabetes.
    Good luck to him.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    dajavouslagan said:
    Maybe it failed because of what he has become. Pompous little do gooder prat preaching to people what they should eat & raising revenue for the government ie sugar tax (hypocrite as he apparently sold full fat fizzys himself) costing the public money just to benefit himself as in recognition for a possible knighthood!!!!
    Yeah what a **** for trying to get the country and its children eating healthy.

    People who do good for others are scum and always good seeing them fail.

    More dowrongers I say!
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    dajavouslagan said:
    Maybe it failed because of what he has become. Pompous little do gooder prat preaching to people what they should eat & raising revenue for the government ie sugar tax (hypocrite as he apparently sold full fat fizzys himself) costing the public money just to benefit himself as in recognition for a possible knighthood!!!!
    I can’t argue with anyone who finds Oliver irritating. But I do think he’s sincere and believes in what he’s doing. He’s absolutely right about obesity and getting children access to better, fresher food and I’d imagine he’s saved many children from heart disease of diabetes.

    The sugar tax is an extremely good thing too. Perhaps it has made money for the government, but it’s certainly driven down consumption of what are atrociously unhealthy drinks. 

    The drawback is is the proliferation of Zero sugar drinks, and I suspect the replacement ingredients - aspartame and so on - are just as bad for us but in a different way. 
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    They changed the IrnBru recipe because of that prick!
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    cafcdave123 said:
    They changed the IrnBru recipe because of that prick!
    And sales have increased!
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited May 2019
    Maybe it failed because having a Chef's name on the sign upped expectations beyond the capabilities of what was effectively a chain. That isn't to say the food was rubbish, but maybe that it wasn't WOW! I am half Italian and used to watch my Grandmother cook when I was a boy on holiday. She was an Italian Mama and I genuinely pity anybody who hasn't tasted the food of an Italian Mama.

    I recall asking her why her food tasted so much better than any other Italian food I had tasted in England. She told me the most important thing was the freshness of the ingredients. I think this is where the chains suffer a bit. 
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    cafcdave123 said:
    They changed the IrnBru recipe because of that prick!
    From utterly revolting to merely disgusting?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    I'd ban it. It gives the nation a bad name. It is one of the most disgusting substances known to man.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,248
    That's how I feel 

    He is a fair target for piss taking and I think he probably enjoys that. He's a millionaire several times over so I doubt he cares too much.

    He didnt have to stick his neck out and try and force catering companies and schools to try and give kids more of a chance to live a healthy life and not be full of e numbers and saturated fat by the time they reach 16. And the attack on sugar is fair too, if you actually listen to what he said he never claimed to run or make sugar free food but he did point out and call out the volume of sugar not in milkshakes and full fat desserts and drinks but things like pasta sauce, mashed potato in some instances, microwave meals including supposed healthy ones, which in turn raised awareness and enabled people to make more of an informed choice. It is a fair assumption to think there is no added sugar in a jar of bolognese sauce however when you take a closer look the stuff is crammed with it. 

    The irony is people who appeared outraged by him contributing to upping tax on cans of coke with 12 teaspoons of sugar in they were buying their kids had offered no alternative. Other than buying them chips and handing them through the school gates.

    Obesity is a problem almost exclusively reserved for the western world and our ruined colons. Now we seem to be winning the battle with cigarettes or at least massively taxing them to turn smokers off them or to carry on buying them and contributing to their inevitable treatment for using them in years to come. Obesity is the already an enormous burden to the country and whilst I accept it is everyone's choice to eat so much they need a mobility aid, it obviously isn't healthy and in some instances it is through not knowing any different which Jamie Oliver was helping to fix
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I'd ban it. It gives the nation a bad name. It is one of the most disgusting substances known to man.
    Someone’s obviously never drank it with Jack Daniels
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    Yes, he seems a decent bloke. He won't be suffering at all financially. It isn't about him, people are losing their jobs.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    I'll never forgive his unjust crusade against the humble Turkey Twizzler
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    I don’t dislike Jamie, in fact what he did for the kiddies school dinners was brilliant.

    I just feel a lot more sorry the likes of those in car manufacturers losing their jobs or steel workers in Scunthorpe, as oppose to already rich celebs who won’t even lose a minute of sleep.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited May 2019
    In this country, we have developed a poor food culture. You wouldn't get an Italian eating reclaimed meat Turker Twizzlers or Dinosaurs. Oliver challenged that. Ultimately it is about our health and that of our Children. You go to an Italian supermarket and one thing that will shock you is the tomatoes. There will be variations that you will have never seen before, and they are irregular shapes. They are all about what they taste like and we are about what they look like.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,636
    Off_it said:
    dajavouslagan said:
    Maybe it failed because of what he has become. Pompous little do gooder prat preaching to people what they should eat & raising revenue for the government ie sugar tax (hypocrite as he apparently sold full fat fizzys himself) costing the public money just to benefit himself as in recognition for a possible knighthood!!!!
    Someone had a bad meal in Jamie’s Italian ....
    Well he was known as the naked chef.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    Got told this on good authority. Many years ago, British rail had their own customer canteen in Kings Cross. I think it was called travellers fare or something like that. One of the staff was sacked for w****ng in the sarnies! 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,636
    edited May 2019
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Got told this on good authority. Many years ago, British rail had their own customer canteen in Kings Cross. I think it was called travellers fare or something like that. One of the staff was sacked for w****ng in the sarnies! 
    Is lunch ready?
    The BR employee answered, “ Getting there.”
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    Do you want mayo in your egg sandwich?
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited May 2019
    snowinberlin said:
    His restaurant empire has gone tits

    Never ate in one personally but surprised he owned the whole business, I thought he was just fronting it
    I read that a lot of the restaurants were franchised, but that he also owns a few directly, and they should stay open.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    He's been shafted by the likes of Pizza Express, ASK, Bella Italia, Zizzi's, F&B and Carravagios.

    I get E Mails from this group on an almost daily basis with offers of20%, 25% or 30% off the food bill. Tempts people in from other chains.
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  • IT_Andy
    IT_Andy Posts: 477

    He should have stuck with just a few Fifteen restaurants. They helped give young unemployed people a job and a chance to become a decent chef.

  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    IT_Andy said:

    He should have stuck with just a few Fifteen restaurants. They helped give young unemployed people a job and a chance to become a decent chef.

    It's always down to over expanding and losing control of the business.
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,518

    Karma’s a bitch, say kids who loved Turkey Twizzlers

    https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/food/karmas-a-bitch-say-kids-who-loved-turkey-twizzlers-20190522185839

  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813
    overpriced pasta dishes.....the mark up on any pasta dish is obscene given how cheap and relatively simple the dishes are.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    soapboxsam said:
    Just one part of his empire, he won't go hungry.
    Not when he can rustle up a tasty meal from leftovers in 15 minutes. Bish bash bosh.

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