Jamie's America

[LauraNorder]

Anyone watching? I hear he gets a really tough time

'magic happens'!

Is/has this been aired in America I wonder?

Oh why did he go on his own?

He should have taken a load of mumsnetters with him, we could have sorted those "lunch ladies" out!

Yes it has.

Right see you all back here next week for more Jamie, thanks for your company

If the lunchtime staff cared more about what was going on the kids plates rather than what was going into their paypackets (we are just doing a job) there might be a breakthrough....they were so fucking smug when the kids were asking for pizza! ...but if the kids know no different where do you start trying to educate them into healthy eating?

Slaps all round from me for sure

what's with calling all the blokes brother ffs!
and he's saying 'man' all the time

that aside I really admire what he's done here and doing there.

he got an emmy for it, glas.

watching now on c4+1.
pizza for breakfast?

Have been sneaking a peak on his website. Very much looking forward to watching the rest of the series.

i eat pizza for breakfast regularly. leftover stirfries, tacos, burritos, curries, etc.

i abhor 'breakfast food' for the most part.

i'd rather eat nothing at all.

so i usually reheat leftovers from the night before.

i'm not obese.

i have a hard time getting my twiggy daughters to eat anything at all for breakfast.

jamie doesn't look like he misses very many meals himself. :o

do you have it for lunch as well though?

he was seeing them have it for breakfast knowing full well they were going to have it again later - and this was deep-pan, loaded-with-cheese, not thin and crispy with vegetable toppings!

no food is evil in itself (even the deep-friend Mars bar) but it's not hard to have too much of some things....

Sometimes I do, yes. Depends.

I didn't like his last series because the 'Mexican' food he did was something that's well, not really Mexican American. Looked like they were eating it to be polite but the looks on their faces said it all.

Oh, good reminder! That tray of brownies I made yesterday is almost gone. I need to take more butter out to soften to make biscuits with the girls this afternoon.

the whole concept of the 'Jamie Does' series was silly: tv chef goes to different countries and shows them how to cook their own food....
I want him to do a cookery show for kids. I think he'd be great. The bits of that Xmas one where he was making jelly or whatever it was with his nephews were lovely.

I would be horrified to send my children to a school where they had pizza for breakfast followed by more pizza or chicken nuggets or something similar.

As Jamie himself said, he's not bothered what the adults eat, they can decide for themselves. He is interested in the children and I salute him!

the menu was awful but as usual its the adults fault not the kids

if they were given healthy normal stuff in the beginning for breakfast ie toast/cereal/dippy egg and then a proper lunch with proper meat (chicken) and veg then they would eat that

tho tbh if i offered my dc pizza for breakie, im not sure they would want it, rather fond of marmite toast but they like it for tea sometimes, with wedges of raw carrot/cucumber/cheese/raisins etc

jamie obv knows he will get abuse there, but sure the salary makes up for it

It would be weird being Jamie making this show - one the one hand he's all 'Woe is me! They don't like me! They're not listening!' which I'm sure is sincere but there would be a little voice in his head whispering 'Fantastic! This is going to be tv gold!' every time he gets insulted.

It's just School Dinners all over again, in a different setting.

I've always hated 'normal' breakfast so-called food. Doesn't fill me up, doesn't taste nice.

Meh.

I'd do series like this for £65m.

I doubt he did this one for free out of sheer altruism to improve the world's diet.

Why doesn't he do school dinners in Pakistan or India and fun proper, nourishing meals for children there out of his own purse?

Probably wouldn't make for good TV, though.

I personally wouldn't eat pizza for breakfast but in Germany they eat bread, cheese and cold meats for their brekkie and they are not really know for being tubby.

expat - did you watch the programme when Gordon Ramsey went to India? The food they were eating in schools was fantastic, all freshly prepared and full of flavour. He went on a train at one point and they were cooking the most amazing food in a tiny carriage. I don't think that the problem there is the quality, it's the lack of it. On the other hand, in America, there's masses of food, it's just shite,

Aw I watched this. Poor old Jamie. I loved the funeral for the depp fat fryer

Also what on earth is a 'corn dog'?? They looked like turd lollipops.