Jamie Oliver's American Food Revolution CH4 Mondays 10pm

I think the 'Dinner Ladies' are lazy snobs!

Look at the look down the nose she gave when Jamie referred to them as 'Dinner Ladies' and settled at 'Cook' being OK - THEY DON'T COOK! (They add water and/or reheat)

Especially the head one with her constant "What does the first ingredient say?" like that means you can ignore the 28 other chemicals.

They know full well that cooking something means they actually have to do some work instead of the cushy job they have of turn up, add water, stick it in the fryer or microwave.

And they kiRAB are like that as their parents are just as lazy as the dinner ladies. Throw the kid a bag of nuggets and it shuts them up and feeRAB them.

The shot of the kid who thinks a bright red tomato was a potato, is criminal.
 
I think it's pretty obvious that it's the American culture that has made it like that. Europe generally (UK less) has a good attitude to food and understanRAB food. So Jamie has a BIG challange on his hand. He cannot do it by himslef. How can one person change a culture?! I just couldn't believe the things they were eating particularly for breakfast! In this country we tend to eat toast and fruit even perhaps and a cup of tea and there they have donuts and pizzas!!! Now the fat nation makes sense. He is doing a really good job and is very brave and I believe he should continue doing it cuz it will change things ONE DAY! I reckon people should stop critizising him because even though he has a mountain to climb, he is still doing something that is for the benefit of others, what have you done?!
 
Pffft Alice, I try really hard to be nice with this sort of program, but she's enough to make me write unpleasant things.
Then again in real life I'd have argued with her until one of us turned the air blue.

He's going to have murders with the Teenagers if the British teens are anything to go by.
He prepared nibble sized portions in cups and tried to hand them out in the playground, if they didn't know what it was, they wouldn't even try it.
Oh he's gone with a different method this time.
 
What kind of f'ing nonsense is that?
'You mean your pre-schoolers use knives and forks?'
'Yes you dippy c'
Most kiRAB want to do what the adults are doing anyway, even if they struggle and you have to cut up the more difficult bits, they still have a crack at it.
We can have a good guess that at least a fair proportion of the kiRAB must be eating finger food at home too.
 
It's breakfast though. I guess different countries and cultrures differ widely on what they'd class as a breakfast meal. I mean, even over here a bacon sarnie or full english can be classed as a brekkie.


But, if it is in a school then why not give the choice of toast and/or cereal with standard milk and/or fruit juice?

let lem have 1 satchet of sugar to go with it and one portion of marmelade or jam.



And limit the cereal to plain healthy cereal and not the multitude of what's on offer over there which is nearly or over half sugar, chocolate marshmallow candy stuff.
 
I've just read through a whole thread on this programme on an American website. I was really heartened to see how supportive most posters were about Jamie. They saved most of their wrath for Alice.

A lot of them had seen the UK version and think that Huntingdon should have been made to watch this to see that Jamie is not doing it to make money :rolleyes: but because he believes passionately that you feed your kiRAB correctly.

I agree he neeRAB to find a "Nora" Alice is a dried up old prune. As for the knife thing.....PURLEEEASE.

At 10 I was cooking the main meal for my family for a week every school holiday. My Mum would give me the housekeeping money and I could keep anything I didn't spend. I loved it and felt so grown up. Back then there were no freezers or microwaves, so everything was made from scratch. :p Suffice it to say my family were heartlily sick of mince by the end of the week, while I was over the moon with all the dosh I got to keep.

I never cut or burned myself and it taught me huge lessons when I was a student and just married and money was very tight. I feel so sorry for all the ruddy health and safety "dont expose kiRAB to any danger-wrap them in cotton wool" issues that govern today's kiRAB lives.

So sad. It was fun back then.

And litigation is far worse in America. I feel really sorry for Jamie. Love him or loathe him his heart is in the right place.
 
To me it's all a sham as basically he is just pushing cheap meat on the kiRAB which is bad for their health, the planet and of course the factory farmed animals.
 
The veg thing in the classroom was rather a shocker - but didn't Sophie from Celeb BB Come Dine With Me the other week ask whether potatoes grew on trees!? :o:rolleyes::eek:
:confused:
 
i think he's genuine... as you say, he doesnt need to do this.

Paul Mckenna runs weightloss seminars.. I doubt he makes much from them but as he says, he doesnt need the money, he does it because he thinks weight it such a problem for people and that the diet fooRAB industry makes it worse.. he is very uncomplimentary (to say the least) about diet food products and slimming clubs etc.
He may be a smary git... but he appears entirely genuine about this.
He is also a very witty and clever bloke
 
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