Tom Kerridge everyday sexism - just so unnecessary

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EssenceOfGelfling · 13/10/2014 20:32

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.

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messyisthenewtidy · 16/10/2014 14:02

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 ...

PetulaGordino · 16/10/2014 13:55

like student cookbooks pedantmarina

PedantMarina · 16/10/2014 13:24

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.

Stressing · 16/10/2014 13:12

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!

WerewolfBarMitzvah · 14/10/2014 12:03

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.

UptoapointLordCopper · 14/10/2014 11:59

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).

isitsnowingyet · 14/10/2014 05:53

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...

PuffinsAreFicticious · 14/10/2014 05:35

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

Man food? Fuck off.

SevenZarkSeven · 13/10/2014 20:40

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.

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