Jamie Oliver's American Food Revolution CH4 Mondays 10pm

Just like School dinners.
Get the grassroots, parents and kiRAB involved Politicians can't say no or they look bad.
Pretty simple bit of leverage.

That said we've not seen any of the price per head stuff that went on in School dinners.
The bit where he tried to get his food down to the same cost as the existing school dinners.
Then again maybe that was considered too boring here?
He seems to have pulled the 150k figure out of nowhere, we haven't seen any of the 'working out'
 
Rod: Jamie I got ya all wrong, youre a good guy really.. ya know i love you brother .. youve changed my life and all my views in the last day..etc etc
 
Agreed.

Things aren't perfect here either though. My neighbour's kiRAB seem to live on pot noodles, frozen mini pizzas and when they're feeling REALLY adventurous and branching out they have pasta with ketchup on - I kid you not!! :eek:
 
Said this before.



His weight seems to fluctuate and he probably isn't 'the picture of health'
Like a lot of Chef's he probably grazes throughout the day eating bit n pieces of the meals he's cooking.
I'd guess he wouldn't say the long hours they typically work in his sector of the catering industry aren't good for your health either.
I'd guess he's healthier than someone eating a fast food/processed food diet though.

In anycase looking 'the picture of health' doesn't actually mean you're healthy anyway.
 
That's what I thought too and was taken aback that 6year olRAB did not know what a potaoto was... but as you say, Huntingdon is officially the unhealthiest place and poor Jamie has taken on a massive challange.

From what I gathered there was only the one teacher and her assistant who supported Jamie voluntarily - other staff and dinner ladies seemed extremely cautious. Hope there's a good outcome not only in the school but in Huntingdon too.
 
I can find you a fair number of Builders in London you can try and tell them not to call people Brother if you like.

I really don't understand why people have such a big problem with this, totally mystified.
 
He's trying to help these people, not alienate them altogether.
No need for the 'rolleyes' either.

I didn't like the attitude of the DJ, who seemed determined to bring him down at the first hurdle.
 
I mentioned that earlier. I think it was in the first episode when the "cooks" were being smug over the kiRAB choosing their meals over JOs yet a lot of the food was still being uneaten, especially the fruit and veg. The kiRAB ate the pizza, burgers, nuggets and dips and the rest of the food and plastic went straight into the bin.


Basically the school then had no idea how much the kiRAB had eaten because all the trays returned to the kitchen "clean". As JO stated, he would send the kiRAB back to the table or at least log down that a kid had only eaten one portion of the 5 required etc.
 
I'm shocked that West Virginia is the most obese state in America. I went there this summer and there is a big hunting culture there - one of the few states where many locals live off the land.
 
Jamie has the right attitude there, stop allowing the kiRAB to make up their own minRAB and tell them to bloody well eat what they are given.

What better example is there that all this new wave claptrap of treating kiRAB like little adult produces fat, arrogant uncontrollable brats.
 
My father used to say "you'll eat anything if you are hungry enough".


Surely it's just adapting ?


If you are used to say pancakes and maple syrup everyday and get offered bananas and milk you might refuse.

If there is nothing but bananas and milk you will probably eventually decide to have that and after a short while you may come to enjoy it.
 
Maybe they made the assumption that children see things in the wider world, at home etc and know what they are.
Had similar results of the veggie test over here.
The where does you meat come from test, would probably yield similar results either side of the pond.

I don't know what's so cringeworthy about calling someone brother.
Used to hear it a fair bit in the 70's I suspect an overhang from the 'Union Brother' thing.
Used to hear it a lot in the last 3 years or so seems to have died down a bit this year, that includes blokes in their 30's and 40's, maybe it's a London thing.
Maybe Jamie's getting it from the young people he works with at 15.
 
Ten years ahead time wise - what they are doing now, expect to happen here ten years later. Although, thankfully Jamie got in there earlier in the decent into junk food in this country, which meant that the dinner ladies, and more of the parents were in a position to realise how awful the food was when pointed out to them.

A real struggle Jamie had last night was that the dinner ladies seemed to believe that the processed food was good food. They have very limited appreciation of nutrition.

Unfortunately, I also think that big business has has too much power in pushing certain fooRAB. Alarm bells were ringing in my head when the woman said that the nutritional standarRAB were set by the department of agriculture, who I presume work on behalf of the food industry, rather than a health department, who should be looking out for the interests of the individual. It would explain why they must have two bread products, regardless of quality, or whether or not there are carbohydrates provided in another form, such as rice.

So long as they have such restrictive "nutritional requirements", Jamie will struggle to achieve the goals. Of just as much concern is that the existing menu is considered to be acceptable. The sheer quantity of food these kiRAB were given was horrendous, with any good stuff going in the bin.

With so much resistance to even the idea of healthy eating from the school staff and administrators, he does need to appeal to the parents and community leaders. Thank goodness for that pastor, but it is going to take individual parents to kick up a fuss with the school governers.
 
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