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"they ate fast food and junk food but had splashed out of a plasma TV."

901 replies

ConfusedPixie · 27/08/2013 08:38

This comment just came up on the radio news, supposedly said by Jamie Oliver about one of the families he was working with in his new TV show.

AIBU to wonder how the fuck what you eat relates to what TV you have?

Surely this just reinforces stereotypes of the people likely to have bad diets through lack of education on the matter? What a bullshit statement.

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englishteacher78 · 27/08/2013 10:40

@alma - fair enough. I can't stand the texture of whole nuts but the love the flavour.

YouTheCat · 27/08/2013 10:41

Great. He puts something back. But it wouldn't be going if it wasn't making a profit.

englishteacher78 · 27/08/2013 10:42

Shade - also live in North Essex (but near Suffolk). Some people do speak like that. Blur didn't start their 'mockney' when they became big.

Moln · 27/08/2013 10:42

what ShadeofViolet you don't say bish bash bosh??

I'm shocked!

ShadeofViolet · 27/08/2013 10:42

1 medium onion
1 fresh red chilli
1 thumb-sized piece fresh root ginger
2 cloves garlic
1 small bunch fresh coriander
2 red peppers
1 cauliflower
3 ripe tomatoes
1 small butternut squash
400 g tinned chickpeas
groundnut or vegetable oil
1 knob butter
½ x 283 g jar Patak's jalfezi curry paste
2 x 400 g tinned chopped tomatoes
4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
2 lemons
200 g natural yoghurt

That is the ingredients list for his MOF jalfrezi. I have cooked on a budget before and if i saw a list of ingredients like that I would move on.

Empress77 · 27/08/2013 10:43

Ha, just watching him on you tube- hes not annoying me so far!

ShadeofViolet · 27/08/2013 10:43

Moln, no one says pukka either Grin

BrokenSunglasses · 27/08/2013 10:43

What's the problem with him making a profit for the work that he does? Confused

That's what people do isn't it? They work, they earn money.

That's hardly something that can be used against him.

Empress77 · 27/08/2013 10:44

"Im not going to cook you a lettuce"! Brilliant.

Moln · 27/08/2013 10:44

This cannot be true

MY WHOLE LIFE'S A LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moln · 27/08/2013 10:45

erm my last comment is directed in respose to shadeofViolet btw!

Didn't anyone like my idea of the next JO tv series? Sad

HoneyDragon · 27/08/2013 10:48

But Lettuce soup is lovely.

OneStepCloser · 27/08/2013 10:49

Rather than just targetting poorer people with big TVs maybe look at how expensive supermarkets are and how much money is wasted on packaging, and the right displays. Cheap meat is not actually very good and ethically bad. The market traders are dying along with smaller independent shops where you use to be able to get cheaper veg and fruit. And they seem to be only open during working hours.

Peoples life styles have changed considerably, many families have both parents working who just dont have the time or energy to cook from scratch, you go into a supermarket and there are all these time saving meals, jars of sauces just add meat etc... 2 for 1 on pumped up full of water chickens and sausages, veg in over the top plastic packaging, thats what needs to be targetted not just another jab at people who dare to have big tvs.

Cooking is a passion but also time consuming, which I love, but I`d never be arrogant or presumtious enough to not understand why people dont.

Sorry, but a tin of toms and an onion does not a sauce make, its a start but not very nice without `erbs, seasoning etc Grin

I am cynical, JO and his ilk are out to make money and a name, its a bit of a joke telling people to buy his book and save money (whilst he rakes it in). If people really want good cheap meal ideas youd be better scouring the internet, there are some great ideas for free on there, and take a look on MN for good meal ideas, much better than lining a rich mans pocket.

Corygal · 27/08/2013 10:50

Am I the only one who suspects the middle classes will be glued to Jamie's new series because they're the ones keen to save cash on food?

farrowandbawl · 27/08/2013 10:50

Out of that list, the first things to go on my budget would have been:

Butternut squash
red peppers - would have been 1 of anything I could have got hold of
fresh chilli - nope, uneccessary seeing as you are using a paste
ginger
yoghurt
fresh herbs
fresh tomatoes - why when you are using 2 tins in the same list?
vinegar - balsamic, HA!
lemons - 1, at a push
butter - nope, you've got oil there
fresh ground pepper? nope, it'll be the stuff that's in the cupboard
sea salt - see above.

The only thing you really need on that list is:
The onion
cauliflour
chickpeas
the paste
tinned toms
oil
if you have any other veg or pulses then aff those.

farrowandbawl · 27/08/2013 10:50

*add

FasterStronger · 27/08/2013 10:51

2 for 1 on pumped up full of water chickens and sausages

he has already campaigned on this topic. well done him. again.

SeaSickSal · 27/08/2013 10:51

Moln that is an excellent idea. Jamie Oliver and his family to live for 3 months in a council flat one benefits. Somewhere like Barnsley. With a basic kitchen and a gas and electricity meter.

Make it in the autumn, so that it' raining and they can't go to the park, they don't have any money to go out and they have four screaming kids who've been occupied with crayons and glue and paint for a long as possible and THEN expect them to tell you that £10 a week from your benefits to BrightHouse for a TV is not essential.

And get Jools to leave all her expensive creams and hair products behind. If she doesn't start sneaking a few quid out of the weekly budget for oil of Olay and cutilcle cream I would actually eat my own arm.

And that fat bastard Jamie looks as though he could put a weeks benefit worth of food down his gob in 15 minutes, let alone a week.

He's an utter hypocrite.

noobieteacher · 27/08/2013 10:52

Ingredients:

3 packs 20 Superkings
1 litre Pepsi
1 rampant bull terrier
3 Kg bag of random clothes from Primark
50" Plasma
5 takeaway trays
1 Family Bucket KFC

Mix together vigorously and serve on a sheet of tabloid prejudice, garnish with a sprig of Jeremy Kyle.

Although I still love Jamie, he needs to get back to earth and realise that healthy eating is not the most important thing in everyone's world.

farrowandbawl · 27/08/2013 10:54

Cauliflower - I though my post didn't look right.

ShelleyGal · 27/08/2013 10:55

Moln - best idea ever! Seasicksal - make it winter, I struggle to afford gas in winter.

limitedperiodonly · 27/08/2013 10:56

I'd watch that programme seasicksal

Can I suggest we also have Iain Duncan Smith kipping on the settee in the front room?

farrowandbawl · 27/08/2013 10:56

and give him a gas hob to cook on too.

Scootergrrrl · 27/08/2013 10:58

It's also much easier to cook well from scratch if you have all the kitchen kit - a food processor, mixer, blender etc - which all clearly cost money.

farrowandbawl · 27/08/2013 10:58

IDS needs shooting. I'm not a violent person but he is one of the few people that make me very angry on sight. I do remember there being a petition stating that he should live on £70 a week because he said he could do that easily. The petition ended up with something like a quater of a million votes.