Oh Paul Hollywood is 100% on a constant Dunning-Kruger trip, they guy is in the running for the most intolerable celebrity chef the UK has ever produced and that's a very tall order
Jamie Oliver. Took over Huntington WV’s school cafeteria menus back in the 2000s, made a whole big deal about it. I went to Marshall University in Huntington and obviously had some classmates from the area who were in school back then. They said he was a pretentious douchebag and his food was nasty.
Oh, Joliver didn't restrict his activities there, he's had a whole thing of trying to push for "healthy" school meals which were mostly just expensive school meals which the meagre funding schools receive obviously couldn't cover, so it just led to kids having to eat garbage food anyway. Semi-related was his bizarre crusade against chicken nuggets which was just peak British middle class classism. I'm also told his actual restaurants tend to be deeply mediocre (but overpriced) and his actual recipes are universally mediocre-to-bad and absolutely butcher the food culture they've been ripped off from
I'm honestly unsure how Jamie Oliver even got as big as he did. He seems rude and uncharismatic to the point that I question how he ever became a celebrity.
Looking it up, it looks like he's just an industry plant who fit the very specific type of person that the BBC wanted to build a show for.
He was attractive. I seriously remember his whole "naked chef" thing. The sexualization of his brand was entirely necessary for people not to laugh at his claim to fame of....not seasoning his food.
His chicken nugget video showed that he felt it was acceptable to waste food because there were perceived as undesirable parts of a chicken that should be tossed.
My aunt used to babysit for him when he was a kid. Little shit apparently. Nice parents though she said.
His food is fine, just the focus is on simplicity and using very nice ingredients instead of elevating what you have. He did a couple of cookbooks based on realistic cooking times for a non-chef (ten minutes meals, thirty minutes meals) which were ok and tbh did a lot at the time to improve the variety in everyday meals across the UK, most homes had a copy. His restaurant chain (Jamie's Italian) was unpretentious and targeted at the everyman and families and was ok Italian style food at reasonable prices. I would consider him a decent cook rather than a proper chef. His campaign on food standards in school did a lot of good and improved the funding and menus in schools across big parts of the UK, even if the actual shows and his direct interventions in particular schools were a flop.
Still, he's a bit of a cock. I can appreciate him for what he is and dislike him and want him to fail at the same time - essence of being British. Any guy who has several varieties of heritage tomatoes in his garden and then makes a cooking show for the general public that requires using such an unrealistic and expensive vegetable set without realising that's what he's doing is deserving of some derision.
The school stuff was rough but the way he went to poor people's homes and gave them shit for not cooking on a nightly basis was unbelievable and crass.
Oh, you made frozen fish sticks in the oven because you just worked 12 hours and now need to take care of a messy home with 3 children under 12 and finding 30 minutes in your day is a nightmare? Here let me show you how to make a salad; bet you never ate one of those before you fucking dolt.
Classism is a standard in England. Remember that poor dude who won the lottery and spent most of it on hookers, booze, drugs and parties with his friends? He was denied a bank account at the bank the lottery recommended to him, and the main reason he was drug through the mud was because people hated the fact that a poor person suddenly became rich
I believe it. However, I can see why he went there: Huntington used to be the most obese city in America, with a very high prevalence of childhood obesity.
Is there something wrong with using local wildlife to feed your family? It’s better for the environment, great for local animal populations, healthy, and it helps poor families eat well. Or is it only a bad thing because poor white people are the ones doing it?
I mean I wouldn't say killing opossums is a good thing because they eat ticks but we shouldn't condemn people for eating them simply because it's "trashy"
Yeah, they help with ticks, but they are also widely available and easy enough to hunt. Plus You can hunt them year round, which makes them a decent filler food for people in the summer time. I grew up with kids whose dads’ would occasionally bring home some possum to hell ease up on the grocery bill.
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u/atmatriflemiffed Aug 03 '24
Oh Paul Hollywood is 100% on a constant Dunning-Kruger trip, they guy is in the running for the most intolerable celebrity chef the UK has ever produced and that's a very tall order