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To wonder what is going on with Jamie Oliver?

127 replies

Drummingisfun · 07/07/2018 21:03

I've just been watching some of his current series because someone told me the recipes are good.
But WHY does he just dump a pile of broad beans on his worktop? Who actually does that??? What's wrong with a dish?
And why does he cook in a denim jacket? Don't most people take off their coat before they cook?
And is gnarly a new fashionable word? He's just said it many times in one episode.

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argumentativefeminist · 08/07/2018 09:00

Jamie Oliver is at the epicentre of Britain's class divide. He is the face of the 21st century's entitled petty bourgeoisie. In this essay, I will...

MrsJayy · 08/07/2018 09:00

Of course Jamie Oliver is working class what makes you think he isn't

itchyknees · 08/07/2018 09:01

Maybe she’s confusing him with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall

longwayoff · 08/07/2018 09:02

Always too much chili.

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 08/07/2018 09:03

Come on, he's nowhere near obese.

My pet peeve, apart from him wanting us all to eat from a trough, is the constant use of "just" to imply that the recipe and ingredients are straightforward. "Now you just shuck your oysters before just tossing in the caviar and lobster thumbs, then just slosh it into a pearl trough. Done."

Lavende · 08/07/2018 09:05

Has he moved on from cooking everything in garlic and rosemary then?

hswarbrick · 08/07/2018 09:05

The village pub is more of a restaurant / high end pub. His parents aren't blue collar.

charis · 08/07/2018 09:07

Also I fondly remember the days when he was rightly maligned on here. "Jamie I'm poor, am I allowed to watch your programme on my flat screen?" Telling us to steal herbs.

And MNers were hiding his books in shops. Not me though. I didn't conceal an entire stand.

His austerity cooking was hilarious. Some rake of meat, venison maybe, which needed SIX HOURS in the oven! I get nervous putting the microwave on for six minutes ffs.

MrsJayy · 08/07/2018 09:08

Working class people can own businesses/houses/cars/ponies though

WigglyBlossom · 08/07/2018 09:10

What keeps catching fire?

Helmetbymidnight · 08/07/2018 09:10

People don’t like the Essex wc - it’s the same with jack Munro.
If their parents aren’t miners then they must be mc.

Fresta · 08/07/2018 09:10

People love to hate Jamie because the British like to quash anyone who is successful; same goes for David Beckham etc.

I like Jamie- he's done well for himself, his heart seems in the right place and he's brought us some great cooking shows- I actually think he's had a big impact on a way we eat and cook as a nation. He's not perfect, no- he doesn't always get everything right, but at least he tries.

hswarbrick · 08/07/2018 09:12

But what makes JO working class? His parents owned, run and employed people to run a high end pub with accommodation.

itchyknees · 08/07/2018 09:12

hswarbrick “The village pub is more of a restaurant / high end pub. His parents aren't blue collar.”

It is now. It certainly wasn’t until he hit the big time. It was just a pub. And a small one at that. But if you’ve got a millionaire chef as a son, happen you might up your game...Hmm

hswarbrick · 08/07/2018 09:13

People hate David Beckham because he's a POS that can't keep it in his trousers and his wife gets all the blame, very different to Jamie!

Fresta · 08/07/2018 09:17

That pub wouldn't have been like that back when Jamie was a kid though. In those days it was probably a local village pub serving traditional food and beer to the locals. It's only in recent years pubs have gone all food and posh because they need to do that to make money these days.

longwayoff · 08/07/2018 09:17

Good luck to him. Hes got more than enough money to do as he likes yet tries his best to spread a bit of love through food. If you dont like him dont watch him on tv and dont buy his books. Wheres the fun in that though? Lets pull the wings off some flies.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 08/07/2018 09:18

I can't stand the twat! I hold him solely responsible for not being able to get a decent soft drink when I'm out as they now contain artificial crap. Thanks to him I can now only drink Coke which was never my favourite!

SmileEachDay · 08/07/2018 09:20

I don’t mind him

Fresta · 08/07/2018 09:21

Eh Pink ?

AfterSchoolWorry · 08/07/2018 09:22

I dislike him, he just takes himself so seriously. He seems to think he's in line for the Nobel peace Prize.

He's an awful egotistical twat.

hswarbrick · 08/07/2018 09:22

If you dont like him dont watch him on tv and dont buy his books. Wheres the fun in that though? Lets pull the wings off some flies.

No he's guilty of showboating and wasting MPs time when they have real issues and pumping the country with a shit more artifical sweetneners.

From what I hear it was always a high end pub, parents owning and running a business like that just isn't what I see as blue collar working. I totally understand why the marketing companies went to great lengths to tell people he was working class though.

noeffingidea · 08/07/2018 09:24

Come on, he's nowhere near obese
Haven't seen him lately , but he most likely was a couple of years ago. He was visibly fat, which usually indicates obesity.

MrsJayy · 08/07/2018 09:25

I don't think JO is responsible for chemicals in full fat fizzy drinks Confused

noeffingidea · 08/07/2018 09:26

As for him working class, he may well have been from a working class, but I woukd say his parents were upwardly mobile, and he benefitted from that. Absolutely nothing wrong with that of course.