Tom Kerridge everyday sexism - just so unnecessary

[EssenceOfGelfling]

BBC2 cooking programme: apparently Cornish tin miners were "big burly blokes, not namby pamby girls".

Dammit I used to like the man and his recipes! A bit of a google and I've been turned right off.

Half of the miners were poor scraggly little children (both girls and boys) anyway so its factually incorrect too as well as unnecessary and sexist, sigh.

[SevenZarkSeven]

I saw his prog a year or 2 ago - DH and I are well into the foodie stuff and he was banging on and on about how he was making proper food for men.... Once or twice well OK but on and on and on to the point where I felt like he was literally saying "YOU woman this food is not for you, you're not allowed to eat it, it's for men not for women" and it pissed me off so much I switched over and have never watched him since

Given the gist of it I can only assume that was the intended result - that women don't watch it. So there you go Tom, job done!

Weird that they would deliberately alienate viewers in that way but I suppose they have their reasons.

[PuffinsAreFicticious]

Way to get rid of the section of viewers who, almost overwhelmingly, actually do the fucking cooking within UK households.

Man food? Fuck off.

[isitsnowingyet]

I watched the very same programme and thought to myself 'he's a bit of a dick'. Couldn't quite understand why Worzel Gummidge is doing a popular cookery show...

[UptoapointLordCopper]

I really like cooking but haven't watched cookery shows for ages. There was (still is?) a spate of men telling women how to cook for their families. While I don't condone violence it does make you want to hit them over the head with a Le Creuset heavy frying pan (if you could wield it, of course, being a weedy little woman).

[WerewolfBarMitzvah]

Ugh irritating.
Someone actually bought my DH a cookbook called Man Food to 'encourage him to cook'. Argh. As if that isn't bad enough, the recipes are all in a weird order and the book is totally user unfriendly.

[Stressing]

I would bet a Cornish nine year old girl back in the mining day could take on the soft, modern, pampered Tom Kerridge no problem. Probably still could!

[PedantMarina]

werewolf, the book is probably never intended to be read, IMHO. Just like that book mentioned in The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy that was so complex and arcane that, to save costs, they simply never printed the second half of it.

[PetulaGordino]

like student cookbooks pedantmarina

[messyisthenewtidy]

It's the same with chocolate, how they have to advertise big manly chunks versus delicate lady bars that induce orgasm whilst in the bath...


It's all chocolate for fuck's sake ...

[UptoapointLordCopper]

Ladies don't eat chocolate messy. I'm shocked at you. Ladies eat 0% fat yoghurt and like them.

[UptoapointLordCopper]

(Sorry - I realise that lots of people do eat and like yoghurt - my kids included. Just can't stand the stuff myself.)

[thedevilinside]

Ladies do eat chocolate, but only as a special treat or instead of sex or a part of some 'me' time

[PetulaGordino]

ladies are only allowed to eat chocolate if they are spoiling themselves and they must feel guilty about it

[UptoapointLordCopper]

I see. Luckily, not being a lady, I've been eating chocolate willy-nilly and not feeling guilty about it at all.

[PetulaGordino]

you haven't been eating it IN PUBLIC have you lordc ??!

[messyisthenewtidy]

LordC you are obviously a loose cannon and we can't have that.

I command you to sit in front of commercial TV for 5 hours after which point you will be suitably "trained" and will be feeling strange urges to spritz your home in lavender air freshener, smother your face in anti-wrinkle face cream, prance around in front of your mirror wearing lacey lingerie whilst wearing coquettish grin on your face. You will still experience desire to eat chocolate but it will be accompanied by waves of guilt which will send you running off to the loo to throw up or to the pharmacy to buy the latest slimming pill

[PetulaGordino]

i'm with you on the 0% fat yoghurt

yoghurt should be the full fat thick greek kind otherwise what's the fucking point?

[whatdoesittake48]

Totally agree on the yoghurt front. Anything that requires sugar to make it palatable and thickeners to make it stick to your spoon isn't real food. Unless it is custard of course. ....

[SevenZarkSeven]

I read Petula's second line as "Yoghurt salad should be the full fat greek kind" etc and thought dear god no WHAT yoghurt salad????

Sounds like a tom kerridge recipe

[SevenZarkSeven]

The Tom Kerridge version of yoghurt salad would involve an entire bull's scrotum as well, obviously. To show it's real food for real men.

[SevenZarkSeven]

TBH I wouldn't have squibbled if he'd said it once or twice. It was just on and on and on and on and on.

The hairy bikers manage to be "blokey" without sounding like they're telling women to fuck off

[SevenZarkSeven]

I assume it was done with that aim in mind though?

Like Yorkie and McCoys crisps - they are basing their campaign around the segment of the market who are male and don't mind taking the hit of a loss of female customers who get pissed off with the whole thing.

[SevenZarkSeven]

I mean there is a whole slew of products that are marketed at a certain "lads mag" subset and deliberately appeal to that in part by making their advertising as sexist as possible I would would imagine that Tom Kerridge is deliberately looking to appeal to that same segment.

labouring this I know but I keep feeling like I haven't put it quite right!

[UptoapointLordCopper]

I have been seen eating all kinds of food in public. Is that bad?

Bull's Scrotum Salad. For men. They can have the scrotum. I'll have the rest
of the animal, please. In the form of a rare steak. Thank you.

And OMG are McCoy's for men too? Damn! That's that off the shopping list then.