to find Hugh F-W highly irritating?

[Shallistopnow]

I like what he cooks but not his smug face and the noise of him eating.

I've felt uneasy with him since I was reliably informed he skirted close to legality in some of his choices of female company....

Me too Don'tPanic!! There's the other stories too. Coughs.

Oh yeah, the stories are most off-putting. Which is fine by me as I didn't even like him prior to the stories.

And as for his food, it never calls out to me.

There was also a former employee of his that committed suicide wasn't there? After being 'let go'.

I wasn't aware he'd been involved in anything dodgy? I rather liked him after that programme he did on battery farmed chickens. I made a walnut bread he made on River cottage once, which was absolutely yummy. Don't really know/have an opinion on him otherwise though.

Damn. I long to hear those stories. I know you can't tell them.

On a completely different topic, wouldn't it be funny if someone started a thread about a nameless person who did whatever?

I loathe the man. I HATE him making people feel inferior because they don't have ALL FECKING DAY to run a farm and make food. He doesn't make a living ponceing about with celeriac. He makes a living through ponceing about in publishing and TV, which make him very rich, and everyone working in publishing and TV to facilitate his wealth gets home at 8pm and doesn't have time to gut a trout, which by the way is a waste of time because if got the fishmonger to do it you allow him to earn a living too (because he isn't going to earn a wage ponceing about on TV either) and you end up with a bang-it-in-the-oven effortless dinner, so WHY does he want everyone to fiddle about doing stupid time consuming things at 8pm with sore feet and a headache when we just want to eat some bloody dinner?

Wouldn't it be funny if someone started that thread?

Come now mildred, don't beat about the bush.

not as bad as Nigel Slater. I love his books but bloody hell he is awful on tv

Hahaha Mildred!

And yes Momma, NS does make me physically uncomfortable.

Now he his a man who needs A Penis Beaker.

[drums fingers waiting for thread about nameless dodgy person]

[decides to start one here

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A WHAT?!

I once wrote to his company to ask HF-W's opinion on something topical and was told rather sniffily that the great man himself was FAR too busy to reply to riff-raff to the public.

Fair enough being busy but he vanished up his own arse in my eyes after that.

I wondered how long it would be before Mr F-W's pecadillo was referred to! What took you so long yourtoastmildred

I am currently finding him extra annoying because River Cottage has sold my email address (or been hacked) to spammers in the last few days

I know it's him because for every company I register my address with, I put their name at the front of my domain (cos I own my own domain, like!)

So in the last few days I've had phishing scams addressed to [email protected].

Gits.

I didn't refer to it! I want everyone to refer to it! And post on my fred!
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I can't bear people who think animals are more important than people

What the actual is a penis beaker!

I despise all those self-satisfied sanctimonious knob-jockeys known as celebrity chefs.
They make me want to claw my eyes out....

"Oh I'm passionate about food" yes we all like food we need it to live shithead

"I want people to eat better" I think most people know what's good for them, but choose not to eat it - jog on

"You can knock up this 3 course meal in 15mins" of course you can in a kitchen that has everything you need and food provided by a fucking production team. Have you tried doing it with small children running around demanding your attention. Or a slog of a day at work followed by a shite journey in rush hour! Maybe you should try it twat before preaching to the masses!

"Oh you can get your local butcher to debone it for you" who even has a local butcher? And even if you do, you're looking at nearly £40 for a Sunday meat joint - the butcher would not only need to debone it, they'd need to be cooking and serving from a gold platter for that price!

Seriously my local butcher was charging £60 min for a small turkey last year. A turkey!? We didn't even have a bird flu epidemic!

"This is what I like to cook when have friends round" shut up, firstly there's no way you cook, you get it catered AND secondly you'd have no time to cook because you have to light all those effing fairy lights!

Now I do admit to using Dehlia - I don't like to watch her or listen to her, but I have to say anything I've done if hers works a charm AND I don't have to go to some knobby overpriced shop on the kings road to buy a leaf that will make all the difference to my lamb cutlets, for more than my mortgage is worth! I can get it all at Saunsburys.

God that felt good, the PMT is strong with me today

[madly applauds frizzcat]

"you can get your butcher to debone this for you. Yes, you can, just go round to his house around 7.30 pm when you get off your train, your kids will be fine standing on the pavement outside the childminders or something, knock on his door and tell his mrs to get him off his arse watching Corrie to come and debone this for you before you go home and cook it. Your children will love it when you wake them up at midnight to eat it"

His recipes really work though. I have his family cook book and everything comes out perfect, lots of basic recipes that I use constantly.

Couldn't care less about what he's like as a person, his sponge works everytime so I'll forgive him a lot just for that!

we should make a pisstake fb group called sancticheffy

frizzcat, your post made me snort with laughter unattractively in a packed office.

Yes I like the family cook book. It's full of nice things to with kids like making marshmallow or bacon. Not necessarily stuff you would do everyday, but interesting, and educational.

I hate his smug cocky little face, he's called Hugh Fearnley-Fuckwit in my house :) Not heard anything about his sex life, someone enlighten me?

However even he pales in comparison next to the gigantic annoyance of Ramsey & his blue contact lenses & his striding about.

I learnt a wonderful name for him here: Hugh Fearlessly-Eats-It-All.

I find him much less annoying now, as a result of this new moniker!