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To be appalled by Top Gear 02/02/14

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ineedanexcuse · 02/02/2014 20:34

I am watching with my head in my hands and with a sick feeling. The 'team' are driving around a closed supermarket in small hot hatchbacks . The idea is for them to go round as quickly as possible

The amount of food that is wantonly destroyed is just sickening.There are families who have no food to eat today because of a variety of reasons and these idiots are finding it hilarious to drive over perfectly edible food for fun.

Surely there must be a better way to spend our TV license money than pay these old men and the programme makers who dream up this stuff.

OP posts:
Joules68 · 02/02/2014 21:11

Food banks aren't exactly short of donations!

DontmindifIdo · 02/02/2014 21:12

Oh yes, cookery shows, for each food cooked, if they do a close up of it on a plate before showing it made, that's been made additionally to be filmed, it's not the end product. Sometimes they are eaten afterwards, but normally it's cold and a bit manky by the time they get to the end, so not eaten, or just no one fancies.

I have a friend who filmed on come dine with me, for that they have to make several extra meals just for the bit where they show what the course is before the person cooks it. Sometimes the camera crew eat them, but normally they don't.

I also know someone who took photos for food magazines, that's all binned not eaten.

Drquin · 02/02/2014 21:13

YABU as surely every form of televisual entertainment is then a waste .....

If you're going to compare it, seriously, with food poverty then everything (even the news studios) are a waste.

But, damn fine moustaches tonight!

TheWitTank · 02/02/2014 21:14

YABU to watch top gear. It's the shittest. Jeremy Clarkson being "hilarious" makes me want to scratch my eyes out. Unfortunately I can't avoid it entirely as OH thinks its great. I read and try to block out the complete bollocks.

bearleftmonkeyright · 02/02/2014 21:16

I actually think Yanbu. I used to like Top Gear but Clarkson is so odious I don't think I'll watch it again. He would probably laugh at you r op. His round of applause for Schumacher was in extremely bad taste also. He is still gravely ill. It was all about Clarkson.

manicinsomniac · 02/02/2014 21:17

Are you sure Joules? I think the ones round me are pretty desperate for stuff most of the time.

I get where you're coming from OP. I think YA probably BU but it doesn't sit quite right with me either.

saintmerryweather · 02/02/2014 21:21

Dont ever watch the shopping channels when theyre selling knives and stuff then.

HuglessDouglas · 02/02/2014 21:23

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jacks365 · 02/02/2014 21:24

While I don't like waste even if no food was destroyed it wouldn't make a single bit of difference to someone with no food. Supermarkets are a business, they sell food not give it away. What top gear did won't affect things either way.

SauvignonBlanche · 02/02/2014 21:29

YABU and a tad sanctimonious.

NaturalBaby · 02/02/2014 21:30

YABU. Top Gear is one of the few things that make me and DH properly laugh. It's therapy.

GlaikitFizzog · 02/02/2014 21:35

I know for a fact no food was wasted making that "scene" it's a mock up set for Trollied, a comedy drama set in a supermarket. It is all empty packets, the bread is all fake, the fruit and veg is all fake.

You are seriously getting your knickers in a twist over absolutely nothing.

dexter73 · 02/02/2014 21:37

I was watching a documentary about Spain last week and there was a bit on the tomato throwing festival - 40 tons of tomatoes thrown just for fun!! You would have probably self-combusted if you had seen that.

Sparklysilversequins · 02/02/2014 21:37

That's a supermarket that's set up specifically to film in, I have see. It before. Pretty sure the food will be out of date too.

NorksAreMessy · 02/02/2014 21:40

Ooh, glaikit tell more...how do you know these things?

Busyoldfool · 02/02/2014 21:40

Actually OP I was "watching" it with my DS - who loved it - and I pretty much felt the same. I agree with others about the waste in real terms and comparisons with other types of waste but it was the revelling in the utter waste that was rather sickening.

GlaikitFizzog · 02/02/2014 21:41

Wink I'd have to kill you first!

Busyoldfool · 02/02/2014 21:41

Sorry - felt the same as you - not the same as DS

Sparklysilversequins · 02/02/2014 21:41

Top Gear can do no wrong for me tbh, it's ds's favourite programme, he is 11 and has ASD. You would be astounded how inspirational he finds it. It's actually a very educational programme, amongst other things there's not much ds doesn't know about Bolivia and he now has a good general knowledge of the basic geography of South America and Africa on the back of watching various Top Gear episodes.

Hulababy · 02/02/2014 21:44

It's bit a real supermarket.
Isn't it the set of Trollied?
The food will be part of the same set - mostly not even real!

Or do you also disagree with the sight of any food and drink being used in any TV programme? It's the same thing whether it is in TG, easterners, or some period drama!

Hulababy · 02/02/2014 21:44

Bit - should say not

Slutbucket · 02/02/2014 21:49

I can't stand them they give me the rage. It makes want to shout ge word PRICK a lot!

SeptemberFlowers · 02/02/2014 21:49

I too, thought it was a waste of food.

Still funny though Grin

GlaikitFizzog · 02/02/2014 21:54

No food was wasted folks, not everything on TV is real.

bebanjo · 02/02/2014 21:57

Perhaps you could partition the European governments who have stock piles of butter, milk ect to keep prices artificially inflated. Then the poor could afforded to buy it.

If it's just wast, what about shops binning good edible food?
The leftovers at party's?
Cookery programs, as previously mentioned?
Rice at weddings?