... to cancel my booking at the Hand and Flowers?

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Tom Kerridge's cooking show Best Ever Dishes was on BBC 2 earlier. It really cheesed me off that he made a comment about 'big burly men' and how they eat the crusts (did he mean pastry?) of their pasties, but 'namby pamby girls' don't.

Then later he made reference to his blow torch (a kitchen staple), and how it wasn't 'namby pamby.'

I'm guessing namby pamby to Tom Kerridge just means shit and weak? And that 'real' men are strong and never weak.

I'm sick of this casual sexism and I'm surprised the BBC (or whoever made the programme) didn't edit it out, but also sad he said it in the first place. I thought he was a nice, smart, hard working guy with a talent for cooking good grub but now I just think he's a bit of a knob.

Am I an over sensitive killjoy? Do I just need to calm the fuck down and get a life? Or am I right?

AIBU to cancel my booking at Tom Kerridge's two Michelin star gastro pub despite the fact it's supposed to be really good and the fact I booked A YEAR in advance (for a mid week lunch)?

A year in advance for lunch. Really.

I think you are being a little bit oversensitive.

Don't miss your lovely lunch.

I've never heard of him but he sounds like a knobber.

I can't get my head around anyone booking a meal a year in advance, surely no food is that uniquely fantastic?

But yeah I'd probably cancel the booking if I felt the way you do.

I would cancel cos it'll probably be Overated crap. I think there is an emperors new clothes mentality about these things! Waiting a year? Honestly?

Does it matter if he's a knobber though? He still makes nice food and you don't have to have lunch with him.

I am on the same wavelength as worra! I've made it!

Here he is talking about manly pastry www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04l90c1/tom-kerridges-best-ever-dishes-2-takeaways Namby pambyness starts at 02.40

He also called a blogger a cunt, a bellend and a dickhead and suggested to his mate that he 'smashed' him in. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/nov/08/top-chefs-unite-against-blogger-s-review Er, maybe he isn't that nice at all!

Namby pamby isn't sexist on it's own. It originates from a poem about a weak man. But namby pamby girls is annoying but not enough for me to miss lunch, I eat my crusts, I do.

Good point Andl!

I know... A year.

Leave the bastard! Although I do fancy a pasty now you've mentioned it!

I didn't know that Mrs!

Oh and more. 'Tom Kerridge: Female chefs don't have 'fire' to make it to top level - but 'girls in the kitchen I like - it makes it not so aggressive'

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/tom-kerridge-female-chefs-dont-have-fire-to-make-it-to-top-level--but-girls-in-the-kitchen-i-like--it-makes-it-not-so-aggressive-9779878.html

I would still go but if the food is anything less than perfection then make a big point of saying so!