Jamie's America

[LauraNorder]

Anyone watching? I hear he gets a really tough time

agree with frankie, you have to make gradual changes. DH's kids are fed all kinds of crap at their mum's house, where they live, though it's not quite as bad as on this show.

we don't tend to cook anything 'posh' when they're here, we stick to homemade versions of stuff like spag bol, pizza, nuggets, roasts etc. we occasionally make something more ambitious but only when they get involved with the cooking, as one of the girls is quite fussy.

I come back to this time and time again but education needs to be stepped up IMO. my DSDs have started food tech (they're in yr8) and it's a friggin' joke. their first 2 cooking sessions were... wait for it... fruit salad (they didn't even get to choose their own fruit) and 'dippy divers' which turned out to be cucumber and carrot sticks

dippy divers, FGS. they're 13 not 3!!!

and at Dippy Divers - That's ridiculous!

Jamie did do chicken drummers and carrot/celery chunks but they didnt like it - i think thats why he tried coleslaw - mind you they prbably dont knwo what a carrot is do they?

sadly its not fried

I love Jamie Oliver and I feel sorry for him this time round,

The first show where the kids were given pizza for breakfast I watched stunned, I mean the USA is a super power and they have nukes and is is frightening to see how thick these people are.

I feel so sorry for the 12 year old boy, he was so proud of making a stir fry, I really hope Jamie can educate him (I think the rest of his family are a lost cause though) FFS they had to wait for a TV show to take their children for a health check, surly the mother could work out that as she has no neck they are all dangerously over weight.

And someone please tell me how the hell does a six year old child NOT know what a spud looks like, the fact those children could not identify a single veg was mortifying.
And I would not have fed those chicken nuggets to my cat let alone a child, they saw what went in to them and they still ate them

The whole mentality of these people is scary, the dinner ladies are appalling, so rude and clearly totally entrenched in their own ignorance, the waist measurements are clearly double that of the IQs of these people.

I spent some time in the states and the food there is disgusting, and the serving sizes are ridiculous. I think Jamie Oliver is fighting a losing battle as they do not have the mentality to drag themselves out of the rubbish food quagmire they are in,
Walk away Jamie and let them eat themselves to death.

LOL runaway

i cant believe that most children couldn't eat using cutlery

assume their parents at home allow them to use fingers all the time?

also agree that instead of coleslaw he should have had bowls of chopped carrots/cucumber etc

and that even after the children saw what was in their chicken nuggets,they still wanted to eat them

whenever you watch a soap/movie/and you see american families eating (generalisation alert) coming up... they never, ever use their knives.... must be a culture thing!

I thought that the knife thing was sad because they literally thought he was odd for even suggesting it. There wasn't a reason for not using cutlery, they just couldn't see a reason for it.

I haven't been to America and don't wish to generalise either but I remember reading in a Bill Bryson book that he found it refreshing that we hold our forks in our left hand here, as in the US the commonly accepted way to eat is to leave the knife on the table for the most part, hold your fork in your right hand and if you need to cut anything you put your fork into your left hand, then pick up your knife in your right hand and cut the food. He said he always found it illogical and was pleased to find the British had a more streamlined approach!

Bertie I was just about to post similar. When I was a teenager I was an Au-Pair in America for a year. I remember so clearly an incident that happened with the first family I stayed with (no for long, but that's another story ) ...

I'd only been there a few weeks, and one night we were all having dinner together. I'm using my knife & fork (as you do...) and my little charge is sitting next to me. All of a sudden, host Mother exclaims "DD! We do not hold our knives whilst we are eating - it is rude! Lay it on the table please until you need it." I surreptitiously lay mine down too, and ate like that for the following year .

Is this available to watch online?

episode 1

episode 2

To be fair to that family however, Runawaywife, that family looks West Virginia dirt poor.

The father was trying not to say that the family does not have the insurance coverage / money to have a health check. Not that the obvious is not actually staring them in the face but if you have no history of healthy eating in your family, it is a hard thing to do without intervention.

I've just watched the first 2 episodes. I'm horrified, absolutely fucking horrified!

What did she think they were going to do with the knives? Run around killing one another? She said "you don't seriously give your kindergarteners knives and forks?" erm....YES! We give our 6 month old babies appropriate cutlery ffs! How else will they learn?

I really felt for Jamie when he had to convince them he didn't think they were ignorant. Must have been very difficult to sound sincere. They were completely pig ignorant, and didn't care that they were, as long as you don't say it out loud!

In one episode he shows the DJ guy the coffins all the towns HUGE people are buried in and tells them how they take them to the cemetery in a van and lower them in to the ground with a forklift, that soon shuts him up....

Go jamie,... making progress!!!

Sausages today :)

I can not believe the 7 veg stir fry, noodles and chicken was not enough veg... and wtf is a cup and a fourth of veg? and WHERE does it come in a burger and fries??!!

Part of me thinks that Rhonda woman just doesn't want him to succeed!

FRIES FRIES FRIES!!!!

Hilarious!

loved the taking back of the fries!

Maybe it's the pregnancy hormone, but watching those kids cook and their speeches at the end had me all tearful... And I don't even like Jamie Oliver!

how can fries count as a veg?

potato?

made me all sniffly too. I really hope they succeed.

I thought this about potatoes was common knowledge in the UK, how can they not realise this in the US?!

just caught up with this
love Jamie so much
wanted to cry about the kids who didn't have knives.
loving it