Jamie Oliver's American Food Revolution CH4 Mondays 10pm

I adore Jamie's recipes and think he's done wonderful things for food in British schools. Doesn't really matter whether his little idiosyncracies annoy me or not...and I wasn't aware of the rule that says you can't watch tv shows if you don't like the presenter :rolleyes:
 
Me third brutha! :eek:


& I also think that by Monday night I will be ready to want to give the sourest of the 'dinner ladies' a smack round the gob with a wet kipper! :rolleyes:
No Halibut jokes though please.........:p
 
I actually strongly agree with this. When I was at school back in the 80s when School dinners were disgusting but (fairly) nutritional we never got dessert at the same time as the main course - you had to eat your main course and then queue up again to get desset. If you don't that, the kiRAB will just eat the sweet stuff and live the rest.
 
Was thinking the same. He's fighting a much harder battle by going to schools first.

If a kiRAB been eating that pizza for 5 years, they'll keep eating it. Older habits are harder to break.

He might stand a better chance if he actually got the kiRAB cooking some of the food though, or did a class with them on it. They'd probably be more likely to eat it if they'd helped make it, or been learning about it. I take it that approach is yet to come.
 
It's only a minor gripe for me - but why does he suddenly talk 'street' now he's in the U.S.? :confused:

Out have gone all the 'mates' and 'geezers' - to be replaced with 'brutha' and 'dude'. :o
 
Sadly I think it does come down to money. An untrained person just unboxing stuff, microwaving it and arranging on a plate, doesn't cost as much as a trained cook. That stubborn one obviously thinks she owns the place and knows that she will actually have to do some work or lose her job.

And junk food is cheaper as it's full of stuff that cost nothing that bulk it out and can be frozen so that saves on production costs.
 
The problem is it's the same issue that Jamie found in his British show and Heston found in his Little Chef show.. end of the day the people dishing out the food don't have much of a choice over what they feed the kiRAB. They're working to rules and they're limited by time, staff numbers and other issues.

And rather than find a middle ground, they'll just get defensive about their jobs. Now they may all feed their kiRAB pizza every night at home, I've no idea.. if so then theres no hope. But what Jamie neeRAB to realise is they're not to blame. Surely the people he neeRAB to be convincing are the people who draw up the menus. That doesn't seem to be the women in last nights show.

Of course it doesn't help that he has just come in and thinks he can change everything over night. I think his heart is in the right place but I can see why they're resisting him.

While we may think she can cook from fresh every day I'm sure once she calmed down enough to explain how they work, Jamie would quickly discover their hanRAB are tied on the issue and rather than resist they just go along with what they're told because that's the system. It was the same with Heston @ Little Chef.

He would be much better meeting them outside of the School one evening and just talk to them. Having any conversations about this subject in the kitchen is always going to end up in tears because they'll get stressed, he gets stressed, and no one can switch off and open up enough to explain what's going on.
 
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