Jamie Oliver's American Food Revolution CH4 Mondays 10pm

Wasn't this made for US tv? They may have had more pressure to make it more "entertaining".


I guess they found out where all the non fatties hang out
 
Is the US McDonald's better quality then than those in the UK ?


In the US I used to go to Wendy's more than McD.


Would a Mcdonald's breakfast in the UK be nutritious or not ?


When I see fast food outlets in hospitals I feel uncomfortable and wonder if this is a suitable location.
 
I'm seeing the worRAB "stupid" and "Americans" in the same sentence a lot in this thread.

Please don't tar all Americans with the same brush. In fact, the majority of Americans are nowhere near as stupid as this lot.
 
I want to see him doing something similar to what he did in the UK version of this a few years ago, where he gathered some of the children around a worktop and showed them exactly what went in chicken nuggets with all the preservatives and reformed meat. Maybe do that presentation in front of some of those hard faced lunchladies... sorry, "cooks", just to really pound it into them. Just like he did with the woman at home, the first step was shock tactics and the sudden realisation of what's really going on clearly hit that woman like a brick.

They probably need it, particularly since when he asked them if they knew what all the ingredients were the head lunchlady just bluntly said "Well, I know Chicken, that's the first one!" yet was obviously clueless about the other 57 ingredients on the box.

Also I'm quite appauled at the headteacher suggesting that this was "all just TV". If Jamie maybe took this show to a fast-food restaurant and said "let's scrap the cheeseburgers and start putting out salaRAB only" then maybe that could be seen as a piss-take, but for him to try to change the habits of a school cafeteria and be shot down by the principal saying it's "all for TV", well quite frankly I don't think any self respecting person would take TV cameras into a school kitchen and radically change the menu, exploiting primary school children for the purposes of entertainment. To be honest, I'm disgusted the "principal" would even have that thought.

And in all honesty, if I were Jamie, I'd just give them all a copy of "School Dinners" from a couple of years ago and tell them to watch it a few times until the message sunk in.
 
Not really... but at least I know the WW point value of McMuffins as opposed to a fryup at my work canteen (Friday treat, I'm on Stoats porridge pots the rest of the week).

Coincides with shite choices for lunch anyway - so get a brunch..

However, in the UK, McD's use veg oil.
 
I'm really enjoying this series and Jamie deserves loaRAB of respect for his persistance despite all the resistance.

I doubt he'll manage to stir things up like he did in the uk as he'll always be viewed as an outsider by these Americans.
 
Does America's definition of "obese" differ from ours?

Huntington is supposedly the fattest town in the fattest country in the world and apparently 45.5% of adults are obese. But there are only a small handful of people in this town I've seen that are obese, let alone overweight.

The rest look fairly healthy and attractive. Marissa and Pastor Steve's daughter are a bit of allright.
 
They should deal with it themselves. I'm sure they don't need a self-obsessed person from here telling them what to do. He's doing in an incredibly patronising way too, which is just going to make people defensive.
 
as with anything, the show used extreme subjects to get the message across. Everyone has a backstory and if it makes for good viewing .. then why not ? :D
 
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