This is the thread where we talk like Jamie Oliver

Yeah, and he can't run very fast because he can't breathe proper with that fat tongue of his lolling around his north, like. Happy days!

Expect more Oliver-based advertising in the run up to xmas, folks. There's new one planned with him and Norfolk's finest, Delia. I can't wait.

Re: the current TV ad where he travels the world looking for new wines - wtf does Jamie know about wine? They should have booked Oz Clarke. Or that dipso Floyd.

Far more worrying - I am really enjoying watching BBC2 foodie shows on Sat, the home improvement one on Sunday. The roof garden near Highbury was magnificent, and the garden in Brighton rocked in a big way.

Ahem.

But who will play Jamie?

Me?

NYT profiles Naked Chef Jamie Oliver and his long efforts to improve the crappy school lunches in Britain. (Warning: crappy NYT link, will expire soon.) If you thought American kids were annoying and finicky about food, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet. His experience was grueling indeed: “The students, deprived of their junk, originally hated the new food. “It looks disgusting and it smells disgusting,� said one student, confronted by Mr. Oliver’s chicken tagine. Another little boy, tasting what he said was his first-ever vegetable, threw up on the table.�

times link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/international/europe/23fpro.html?8hpib

Ironically I missed the last five minutes because I had to go and pick up my take-away.

I do get tired of his whole 'english people don't eat properly' whinging.

Ultimately I'm on his side re this despite eating badly myself, but yes he tends to conveniently overlook how different the culture is here compared to the oh so sensible and healthy Mediterraenan regions.

"NICE BUNS JAMIE!!!!11111``¬`one eleven!1"

anyone watching his america thing? did you americans not be allowed to use knifes at lunchtime? wtf is up with this crazy fucking place?

also can he stop ending every sentence with "brother"?

despite initially being swayed towards a negative opinion of JO due to middle class people that fail to believe anyone can actually - genuinely - speak with a cockney/essex/whatever accent (even if he does exaggerate it a tad, PERHAPS), i like him. who cares about his voice/accent, hes actually made people who wd previously have thought a lot of the stuff he makes as a bit pretentious maybe think of cooking some of the stuff he does. plus i like the cookery schools (or academies) or whatever hes opened around the country. plus he is genuinely passionate about getting people to cook. and im always surprised/amazed at how many people cant cook the simplest stuff. so good on him. plus the JO in america series was great. the one where he seemed to be going round the world and cooking in places with rare ingredients no one except him would be able to cook (beaches, forests etc etc) less so, but even that was pretty good food porn.

"also can he stop ending every sentence with "brother"?"

oh my fucking god that was the most cringe thing I've ever seen. My girlfriend literally couldn't listen to him say 'brother' again and had to hide.

I've been won over by Jamie, I like him now. This is a commonly held attitude.

A handy guide:

Words to use when selling our fab specials

Messed the link up:

Words to use when selling our fab specials

OK so on the way home from work I popped into the Co-Op to buy a can of Red Bull, paid at an automated checkout and immediately got the 'please wait for the assistant to verify your age' message like I was trying to buy alcohol. Turns out that the Co-Op are the latest supermarket to ban the sale of energy drinks to under 16s on the basis of a campaign mainly spearheaded by everyone's favourite Mockney twuntbag Jamie Oliver.
Why Co-op will stop selling energy drinks to under 16s from Thursday
Basically a ruse to keep his name in the media in an effort to drum up business for his failing chain of 'Italian' restaurants - failing because people no longer want to pay premium rates for food that's no better than tinned spaghetti on toast.

Also this fucking picture:
https://i2-prod.examiner.co.uk/incoming/article14332917.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/JS140027197.jpg

He's the fucking Jimmy Nail of food.

weww guys taday iz a very speshow day becos im havin me mates ovah from i'aly

but fuhst weeuh gonna mee' up wif aufred at the butchuhshop

*scene switches to jamie riding his moped somewhere in jolly old england*

He's the fucking Jimmy Nail of food.

Ain't No Doubt >>>>> Jamie's terrible indie band, though

STOP STEALING MY TOILETS, said jamie oliver bankruptly

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmRH-F_W4AAFUGE.jpg

Who would steal from a restaurants toilet!?

"my yes I could really use this half-used jar of liquid soap"

My twenty minutes of exposure to this guy, in the form of his show about berating a West Virginia public school system for making its kids fat, convinced me immediately that he was a vicious charlatan, so I’m glad to hear he’s bankrupt. Also he said “veg” for “vegetables” which is too fucking cutesy to tolerate.

Geez I mean he is annoying, but hes not wrong about how shit US and UK school food is.

I’m sure his hectoring of school officials on a television show with his name on it was a huge boon to not just the community he carpetbagged in but to students nationwide

Have ye not seen the UK School Dinners series? It did actually cause some positive changes to govt school food programs. I dunno what it did for the US show though.

the reaction to his school dinners show in the US was horrific also hilarious

"so I’m glad to hear he’s bankrupt. "

He's not.

Also he said “veg” for “vegetables” which is too fucking cutesy to tolerate

this is pretty standard in britain, apologies for being a cutesy nation.

there is nothing cute about "veg". But I'd agree with anyone thinking Oliver should fuck off out of their country forever.

vedge

Disappointed that dog latin never got round to posting a 'This is the thread where we look like Jamie Oliver' thread.

is the imo twee-r sounding 'veggies' not equally prevalent in American English

do the speakers of other languages -- for example italians, who deploy them in serried ranks -- consider their diminutive forms twee?

(acc.google translate tells me that the italian for twee is "twee" so i'm guessing not)

this very important question needs its own thread:
do the speakers of languages other than english consider their diminutive forms twee?