to wonder if Jamie oliver has lost touch with reality

[ThatVikRinA22]

dont get me wrong, i am a massive fan of his 30 minute meals,

but last week i went to do the cod dish - £10.20 on the fish alone

just been to get meat to do the Sunday roast one - fillet of beef for 4 people would have been £20 for 4 people - for the meat alone

the woman in Tesco behind the fish counter said "he is a pain in the arse and thinks everyone is a millionaire".

a few weeks ago i would have said not, but looking at the prices for some of the meals....he argues that convenience food is just as expensive. it bleeding well is not! its not half as nice i admit but aibu in thinking that he has lost touch with what normal everyday people can afford?

Oh go and eat something, it is nearly teatime!

Now Gary Rhodes is a chef who's "Mmm, just look at that" talk overs get on my wick.

I had a friend who couldn't bear Rick Stein. His face, his voice, would get her ranting for hours

Have eaten whole bag of Lindt bunnies - yummy.

Now, the Lindt man, with the hat and the big spoon. I like him

Oooh Rick Stein and his manbag.

I like how he gets all grumpy and harumpy about things though.

I've been catching up with Raymon' blon' this week though. Can't ever understand him quite, but he's so classy compared to the "lob it in fuck fuck fuck " that comes out of JO.

Vicar When you think that the cost of meat would have been £5 each, plus say another £20 for veg, yorkie ingredients and pudding. You're looking at a fab meal for £10 each. Think about what you'd pay at a restaurant for something that wouldn't be half as good. Sometimes it can be worth paying that amount for great food on high days and holidays.

Not every day of course though - then it's more affordable stuff all the way for me! On a day-to-day basis I think he won't really understand that most of us budget for our food shopping. Maybe he'll have more of an idea when all of his kids are going through the 'eat you out of house and home' stage

I also agree about the cost of the Jamie Oliver at home stuff - eyewatering. He has rather put himself about endorsement-wise, but he's a businessman, that's what they do.

No, businessmen provide goods or a service that if of sufficient quality or value, people will buy in sufficient numbers to make a profit.

What Jamie Oliver does is lend his fat-tongued face to various bits of crap, whether they be books, TV shows, pots and pans, restaurants, supermarkets or whatever, and rake in the image rights on the back of other peoples work.

He's a sleb. Not a businessman.

yes yes yes LeQueen!!

BTW Jim, what's with the fat-tongued thing? Can't say I've ever noticed

flyingonion It was a popbitch comment made in about 2003. Funny 8 years ago. Vaguely. If you like making fun of people with speech impediments.

He has spent the last what, 15 years or however many it is, becoming a true expert in his field - far more expert than a uni degree would make you in anything. He is dyslexic and school was not going to meet his needs but he has taken his passion and worked to get to the very top of it as a profession, he's also used his profile to work for some public benefit (and it has benefitted many schools) unlike the other high profile chefs

I think saying he is uneducated and unintelligent is a very middle class prejudice tbh

I'm sure he's not perfect and is now very rich and may well have lost touch with reality of buying food on benefits etc but that's a different issue from saying he's stupid and uneducated.

I think that's pretty low actually, queen. To say he's unintelligent and inarticulate.

Whether people like him or not, he is articulate and smart enough to have done very well for himself.

lequeen lol at the 'Bono Complex'.
I think you hit the nail right on the head.

he doesn't strike me as unintelligent or inarticulate

if he was, he'd still be chopping things in the River Cafe kitchen

One of my gripes with celebrity chefs is how they go.."oh just chuck a handfull of x-herb, and y-herb, this that and the other" as they are ripping off big handfulls of lovely herbs sticking out of an artfully arranged pot. I am sat there thinking thats £20 gone all ready. I know you can grow herbs but not possible for everyone and that still costs money

I can't stand jamie oliver. he a self important dick head.

tv chefs i like - raymond blanc, rick stein, lorraine pascal, delia (grew up learning to cook from delia's books will defend her to the death) the hairy bikers (but they have gone a bit sainty on it)

anyone watch the show with Gordon Ramsay in Cambodia last week? they were clearly taking the piss out of him loved it!

I don't think he would have managed to front numerous TV programmes if he was unintelligent and inarticulate.

Also, you never hear a bad word heard said about him, by people who have worked with him.

Lorraine Pasqual. Do you think she actually EATS any of those cakes? And keeps them down?

I don't think so.

Bloody twiglet.

aside from the tv, there's his mahoosive restaurant empire

his PR team can't be responsible for that

and to be fair, you can't really judge a person on a few minutes' acquaintance. He's a shrewd fucker, I reckon, and the "bash a bit of olive oil on these babies" is his schtick. And it works, obviously.

I think Lorraine just breathes in the cake spores

According to the dictionary intelligence means "the capacity to aquire and apply knowledge." I think he must have done that at some point inorder to be where he is now.

I have never read a review or interview where the reporter has said "Oh Jamie Oliver, how the hell as he gone so far, he is clearly thick" [well words along those lines].

People may not like him or what he does but to call him unintelligent is a bit, well silly.

tbh your comments sound a trifle snobby to me, LeQ

or maybe I'm reading it wrong?

hey! look! trifle! trifle!

...see what I did there?