Greggggg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat

[Sunbird24]

Ch4, Mon 24 July, 8.30-9pm.

It would probably be an interesting programme, seeing how they make lab-grown meat, but with that title I just can’t bring myself to watch it!

The bit at the end with the children?!?!

I refer you to my post at 21.20 explaining the Modest Proposal on which it was based.

The point was not the really the meat as such, but that people in poverty were desperate enough to do this. In fact, at first they gave their own flesh to pay the heating. Once this was established, the next step was to segue through small tender children, down to toddlers. They didn't go so far as babies.

But Swift led with the suggestion of eating the surplus babies of the poor. He went straight for the jugular.

Poor people are desperate, the oppress Irish then (among others) and the poor people who have to use foodbanks. Hence the mention of the Trussell Trust.

What a bizarre idea for a programme? just catching the end of it on +1

I didn't see it. I can't decide if I feel I missed out or if I'm relieved I didn't see it. It sounds totally bizarre.

Ok well I think I may be alone here and having been thinking I would totally eat this

I thought pain subjectivity was a nice touch

So I just casually put this on and said absolutely nothing to my husband (he likes watching Greg Wallace’s factory thing)…. It took him a good while to ask if it was real 😅 he kept dipping in but when it got to the child meat thing he totally realised it was a spoof 🤣

I didn’t see it, but my FB is awash with people saying it’s a piss-take.

Im not sure this website is a good barometer of what people do or dont understand.

This is very true. I mean, I love MN, but…

Well, quite ... it's a rather erm, eclectic experience at the best of times. That's why I go to Telly Addicts for the best discussions. They are my people

How did the public respond to Swift's A Modest Proposal? - eNotes.com

@Sunbird24 I stated another thread last night whilst watching. It was believable at first but got more stupid. Another body part for and extra £200! I was really sucked in at first!

I was a bit suspicious at the start of it and thought I had misheard a number of times when they were talking about human meat. I thought this cant be real

But it really confirmed it when they were trying the meat and were reading the 'tasting notes' from the back of the packet, then I knew it was a spoof

Hilarious

The biggest problem of this programme is that bloody Greg Wallace is going to be all over tv and radio talking about it.

More of him is not needed.

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Gutted I missed it actually - I saw the trailers, thought "Ooh that looks interesting," then forgot it was on. I am so gullible I'd have been nodding away until the last 5 minutes.

Can we remake Eat The Rich instead and shove Sunak et al into the mincer a la Kingsman 2 please?

Also, whilst he will never be forgiven for the extra G, fair play to Wallace (and Roux) for doing something different.

I had no idea what this was going to be when I started the thread after seeing a trailer - thought it was going to be a sensible doc about lab-grown meat 🤷🏻‍♀️ The title made it kind of sound like Greggg was the miracle meat 🤢 Not envy

The Guardian have written an interesting review of this.

Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/a-modest-proposal

It's an obvious parody/satire on the satirical work of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels.

I thought it was a good 21st century response to the excellent essay by Swift, written in 18thC and was very obviously credited at the end of the show.

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain and @placemats I totally agree.

@placemats upthread, I pretty much said what you just posted, including about the credits. With links. (And further reading - on what the reaction was to AMP when it was published.)

Thanks for the thread, OP. If I hadn't randomly found this thread about 5 min after the programme started, I would never have watched it.

I also lurk on the Master Chef threads, the only programme I can bear to watch with Gregg in it. I clicked on this thread thinking it was probably going to be the usual taking the p out of him. But no!

I thought this was hilarious and a great satire... bits about inflation and brexit really resonated

Gregggggg is a better actor than I'd have reckoned.

Bits about cake and mention of modest proposal make it quite obvious I'd have thought?!