Jamie Oliver kissing everything (and other peeves)

[ISeeTrees]

Rare evening alone, watching food network while I cook. Jamie Oliver Christmas programme on and every recipe now he's "kissed" the food with a little lemon, olive oil, whatever. It's annoying me so much I'm going to have to turn over!

Also hate the word "garlicky"- only written down, I don't mind it being said. And "dollop"- reminds me of diarrhea, not the lovely bit of greek yoghurt or cream it's usually used to describe.

What's your food annoyances?

Everything JO says about food. 'Happy Days' being one I can't stand. He doesn't say 'pukka' or 'bish bash bosh' anymore but it's still mega cringe. The idea of his rubber lips and slug tongue, 'kissing' is the last thing you want to think of.

It's partly his big fat tongue and he seems to almost project spittle whenever he annunciates his words.

The verbs involved

COOKING
pop
chuck
throw
bung

EATING
munch
devour
guzzle
chomp

BUYING FOOD
grab
get
source

Along with his kissing everything is either a journey, or a story, or a little bit of joy.

Jamie Oliver is a bad person.

GIVE US BACK OUR TURKEY TWIZZLERS!

Oh god @BillieWiper you've put me right off my pasta 😂 he's just kissed his sprouts with garlicky breadcrumbs, FML

AND ANOTHER THING

He didn’t even ‘ban’ them from school dinner menus. The Scottish government had already banned them and so had some local authorities in England.

#DerivativeJamie

Hes still a bad man in my book!! Where he goes, food bans follow!

Give me sweary Gordon anyday!

It’s not just him and some people are far, far, worse. On Instagram there are loads of women who are pushing their recipes and recipe books and frequently they pull bits of the food out of the mixer with their fingers, and eat it, fingers back in, or they take a direct bite of the stuff. I’m by no means fastidious but it makes me heave.

Then when the finished food is cooked, they think it’s attractive if we watch them fork it into their mouths and chew vigorously, often whilst they nod furiously and make stabbing movements at the food with the fork. Apparently that’s a recommendation

It's him saying everything is 'jammy' that annoys me. 'Stick a clementine in the oven. look how jammy it is'

And don't get me started on his 'gnarly' roast potatoes

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Oh absolutely @HoppityBun Nigella is up there as well with "adorning" everything in sight, and John Torode with his "Boom" fork drop moments on MasterChef. Jamie just happened to be on and had gone into overdrive with his kisses. I know just what you mean with the Instagrammers as well, the furious fork stabbing is really irritating.

Yes @EchoedSilence whenever he makes eggs they have to be jammy 🙄 there's a festive series from some time ago where he seems to put Clementine juice or zest on/in just about everything, ruined so much good food! I can hear him saying gnarly now 🫣

I watched one of his programmes today and he stuck a clementine in everything he made. Including stuffing one in the turkey.

Also hate when foodies claim a recipe is "life changing" or that a certain ingredient or technique will "level up" your food. Double hating on people who make a point of telling you that they got their arugula at the farmer's market or just picked this sustainably grown organic tomato from their garden. Not like the rest of you slobs who dig their food out of the waste bins or (horrors!) the supermarket.