Jamie Oliver - The Cartoon

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Next up A-HA type cooking show.

This is at least encouraging

No broadcaster has yet signed up to show the series.

Little J will be accompanied by several bizarre characters such as a depressed ham and a mad scientist called Eggs Benedict, who sports a chicken on his head.

A "spiritual-cum-culinary guru" called Nonna will guide him on his journey.

Joliver is the best TV chef the UK has ever produced.

Challop, but also true.

dom is the best challop the uk has ever produced

for his can-do-gooder attitude yes (xp)

Remember that Viz strip where he's on a plane that crashes in the mountains and the rest of the passengers eat him, saving his fat tongue till last?

LOL

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DON'T PATRONISE ME YOU SWOLLEN-TONGUED MOCKNEY CUNT

Is his spit part of the concoction?

This guy is annoying beyond words

"Posh" Bread Spread OH MY I FEEL SO SOPHISTICATED EATING PRETEND TAPENADE FUCK ME I MUST BE MIDDLE CLASS

Given his swollen tongued pronunciation, you might very well open the jar and find that it contained this...
http://www.wise4living.com/bbspread/images/bedspread.jpg

saw a bit of a really old episode of teh naked chef recently and felt old. He looked about 12 in it.

xpost LOL. They keep doing reruns of his show over here. Do people actually make food based on his recipees? I mean "a handful of this and a bifff of that thrown in" doesn't seem that explanatory.

bish bash bosh luverly jubly and it looks like a total mess

Cookery on TV has gone downhill a bit. Delia "Cheat" Smith encouraging people to use ready made food, Oliver, Nigella "oh dahlings just use some balsamic vinegar and chopped goboberries which everyone has as an essential in their cupboard", and Ramsey with his face full of so much filler that he's in danger of looking like James Corden.

his cookbooks are a bit more precise. My mum has his Italian one and it's actually pretty good. I think the idea behind his style is to present cooking as unpretentious and easy because the British public are cretins with no food culture.

I enjoy that dude who does the What to Eat Now show or whatever it's called, and Masterchef brings the entertainment if not a lot of actually useful cookery.

Well, I do have to admit that Jamie isn't that bad if you compare him with the rubbish they have here. It's driven me to the takeout many a times. lol

jamie oliver would be really good if he wasn't such an insufferable cunt.

Hitler - would have been really good if he hadn't been a racist anti-Semetic homophobic fascist psychopath

not quite the same, Jamie Oliver has ok recipes and seems like an alright guy. He's not a cunt really. But he is a huge twat. Which ruins his positive points.

My mate trained under him for a bit and says he's a really lovely guy.

anyone watching "food revolution" in the US?

none of it being big news to me, since I live in Berkeley where the public schools have benefited for a number of years from a healthy school lunch program. But the nasty resistance of the school lunch ladies is something to behold.

am watching, like it a lot.

I quite like JO, and have always liked that his cookbooks include sections on including kids in the kitchen, recipes they can help with and stuff like that. Mum got us in the kitchen when we were wee and I think that makes a big difference in your relationship with food. I'm not surprised that people are getting miffed with the whole 'wtf English teaching us how to eat food, frak off back home before you start taxing our tea you limey bastard, have some toad in the hole while you're at it and show us your teeth..." etc...and the show seems a little ham handed, but his heart is in the right place.

The knives and forks conversation was pretty O_O

It was pretty obvious to me that no knives and forks was probably a district rule relating to violence though, I think his surprise at the rule was a bit fake

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/819602-jamie-oliver-s-school-dinners-improve-exam-results

there is some discussion over at the nutrition nazi thread

Completely fucking insane take on Oliver/the show from libertarians:

http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/25/jamie-olivers-ministry-of-food/singlepage

Wow, that is the most deceptively spiteful article I think I have ever read.

"he made kids eat healthy food! HOW DARE HE? I demand the right to stuff my kids with McDonalds, you limey cur"

not at all surprised by the reaction of the lunch ladies, having grown up in the south. but i do think the show is produced horribly and could be edited a LOT better to tell the story.

Yeah, I'm surprised he's actually as far north as West Virginia. When I was in school in Alabama, we had one type of pizza on M-W-F and the other type of pizza on T-TH. Occasionally I'd get a hamburger, but only if the pizza didn't look fresh. I was a teenager, though. Could eat anything and not gain an ounce. I'm paying for that now.

the high school i went to freshman year had the normal cafeteria pizza/etc in the actual cafeteria, but i never set foot in it the whole year. meanwhile, in the hall where i hung out, they sold chik-fil-a sandwiches and the p.e. coaches sold candy and snacks. i subsisted on chik-fil-a, white cheddar popcorn, and starburst for most of that year. ugh. the thought of it makes me so sick now!

Chik-fil-a at school? FANCY.

they sold them out of a cooler in the auditorium's box office window! rumor has it that in years prior to my attendance, they also sold taco bell and papa john's.

We had to stay on campus until we were juniors. This was a new policy and the 1950s cafeteria couldn't deal with 2000 freshmen and sophomores, so they had to bring in Chik-Fil-A, Arby's and Pizza Hut to sell food throughout the school. In four years I never ate in the cafeteria and never knew anyone who did. It always looked packed, but I don't know why.

Most of the time, I would just eat other people's pizza and french fries and pocket my lunch money so I could go buy music at the mall on the weekend.

The very idea of sit-down cafes in school was like a miracle to me. They dont do things that way down here (nor in the UK in state schools, I suspect). There's the tuckshop, which sells pies and sausage rolls and chips and rubbish like that out of windows, and you go sit and eat in the playground. Or you bring yr lunch in. Or if you're me, you jump the fence, walk 50 metres, go home, make ramen and cheese toasties and watch Days of our Lives.

at my school we had the hot food line and the sandwich/hoagie line. the most prized lunches were chicken pattie sandwiches (hot) and tuna hoagies (cold)

i don't know why i should be surprised, but i will never understand why people think JO is a cunt. i mean i know there was that big backlash BITD when everyone called him 'fat tongue' because they'd spent too long on the popbitch messageboard, but compare him to Gordon Ramsey, to Nigella - these are true black holes of bleak-hearted cuntitude. JO's just a bloke trying to do some good, y'know?

i'm down with gordan ramsey cuz he brings the lolz and humiliates dumb foodie dorks; no beef w/jo particularly, but i got a sleezy self righteous vibe from his ellen interview and it wasn't infused with an insane amount of four letter words so no contest

xp I think it's mainly the residual leftovers from his persona circa 2001 or so, when he seemed more concerned with putting his face on compilations featuring Shed Seven and his band than improving dietary habits

I was going to ask whether people still really thought that, but then read upthread & saw the December cunt charges.

His matiness - which he's got in check a bit, I think - rubs me up the wrong way, and his commercial drive muddles things, but since about 2003 he's been consistently doing good work. Can be a bit self-righteous preachy, but he gets good things to happen as far as I can tell.

I mean *not a cunt* by almost any TV standards.

(xpost lol)

otoh never forget

Gone v queeny imo

would behead

Looks like (3 years ago) people didn't mind him as much as they used to.

this tart and his increasing stupid one idea per year schtick makes me fucking rage very quickly these days I just screamed at a squirrel pie advertised by the despicable paloma faith how could I not

and he looks like a total cunt these days what a cunt

His matey blokeyness probably singlehandedly responsible for that awful Tim Lovejoy brunch show, so for that alone he can fuck off.

yeah thats an equal charge def

He reminds of dr brian cox in the sense that he is a repulsive fake smiley creep and they probably share the same PR company. Underneath all the smiley smiley fake chirpy shit these people are just recycled Hughie Greens and Savilles, you wont find out what they really did for another 20 years.

haha dont hold back :D

tbf brian cox's music career easily eclipses that of the fat-tongued twat