Jamie Oliver is annoying me tonight

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And I was so sure he mens well and is just a bit thoughtless.

But all the fucking this fucking that is annoying me (and I love a good swear - it just seems contrived). Also dissing the woman making an omelette when THATs what he should have been showing them in the first place.

OH me too

I switched over to the other side.

Why does he feel the need to swear so much and in such unnessecery places.

Dick head that he is

Have noticed that the new cook book is in the shops now! . I don't normally mind JO but this series is a pile of patronising wank.

its fucking fashionable to fucking swear a lot these fucking days

I'm sick of his geezer chef image. It's just not washing with me anymore. Can't believe I use to defend him when people called him patronising. Now, to be frank I wish he would just fuck off our screens. Put back come "dine with me" any day.

Lol I was going to start a thread on this- is he trying to be Gordon Ramsey? Its extremely tedious listening to him love himself tonight peppered with the F word. And he also seems more patronising and up himself than normal ..and this is coming from someone who usually likes JO!

he is becoming a caricature of himself

I love Jamie but if people are telling him they can't afford the bus fare to buy fresh food, why is he teaching 1000 people to cook steak?

furrycat

LOL I thought exactly the same thing!!

agree

i normally like him and what he tries to do

yet he was woffling about spending his weekend trying to make some good - and he didnt know why

sure the HUGE salary he is getting helps!!!
and yes he doesnt need to say fucking quite so much

we all swear. but he is taking it a bit far, bet he wouldnt talk like that infront of jules and his 2 daughters and baby bump

Patronising twaddle.

First Kevin McCloud tries to 'regenerate' Castleford with contemporary 'design', then Jamie's comes to Rotherham to tell everyone they should be eating his steak stirfry.

Do these men have messiah complexes?

What towns like Rotherham and Castleford need is some proper investment in the local infrastructure, not southern media jessies on their jollies making their shows about how them oop north don't know how to cook / how to appreciate half a million quids worth of stainless steel posing as a band stand.

Shame as I liked Jamie's school dinner stuff.

And the swearing! I'm no prude but he's doing it just to be a bit edgy isn't he?

And when he said that he knew he had made a positive impact on that young mum's life I wanted to retch.

Bad call Jamie. Get back to your vacuous Sainsburys ads.

Funnylittlefrog -

A lot of these right on tv cooks annoy me. Its like when that Hugh Fearnley thingymebobby told everyone to buy free range eggs and chickens. Yes Hugh, its all well and good in theory except when you go to your local supermarket and see the astronomical difference in the prices.

I tried to do the right thing for a while and buy free range but at the moment it is just not possible. I have had to revert back to Smart Price eggs and chickens for the time being as there is no way I can afford to buy the posh stuff. The price of bread, eggs and meat has gone up an awful lot in just the last few months. Some of these people could do with having a 'Secret Millionaire' kind of experience to see what it is like for most of us living in Britain today.

Mmm, but most of us living in Britain today don't eat cheap cuts of meat or offal (and the supermarkets don't stock them) even though we could. Often you'll find butchers virtually giving away hearts (certainly for far less than the cost of Smart Price chicken). Part of Hugh Fearnley-Whatnot's argument is that if all meat-eaters ate the whole animal then it would be more economical (as well as more animal-friendly, ecologically-minded, etc.) and we could afford to worry about free rangeness. Similarly if we cut back on how much meat we eat -- there's no need to have meat every day.

Which doesn't explain why Jamie O is teaching people how to cook steak rather than how to slow-cook a nice scrag end, admittedly.

I only managed to watch one of these programmes and couldn't face any more, mostly because I find his swearing very off-putting. He is definitely getting worse.
Also, the programme I saw had a woman saying she couldn't afford bus fare to get to the shops but she was puffing away on a cigarette at the time. This sort of thing just winds me up I'm afraid [judgemental emoticon].

agree pixel about smoking

if they can afford to smoke 20 a day, and sure they do @£5 something a packet - thats over £35 to go towards food

I think the idea is good but he's not coming across very well. Agree about the smoking & also thought it was a bit much last week when someone said she couldn't afford to buy fresh food when she was buying takeaways practically every night of the week. I think Jamie should go shopping with people & buy stuff that's on offer or is cheap & show them how to make a meal with that. Teaching people on a budget to make dishes with steak is pointless & makes him look totally out of touch.

I think Jamie Oliver is a saint! I don't care about the swearing (he is Estuary afterall, that's what we do!) I don't think he has a messiah complex, I think he genuinely cares, and if he converts only a handful of people and their children to healthy eating then he has probably saved the NHS a fortune in future health care for diabetes, heart disease etc etc.

If you look at the Ministry of Food recipes on the C4 website, it's not all expensive steak - there are stews and stir frys etc.

I saw JO on a chatshow-type programme where he was saying how easy it is to grow a few veggies even if you only have a patio or balcony (apparently he enjoys growing chillis and sweet peppers from seed). I think he should expand on this theme and encourage people on a tight budget to try growing some tomatoes in a growbag or some herbs on their windowsill, or even get together and have an allotment(The rent on mine is less per year than a lot of people spend on cigarettes in a week). He could then show them how to prepare and cook the produce in appealing ways. In the long run it would get them more interested in producing good fresh food for their families than just showing them a few fancy recipes and expecting them to 'see the light', although I don't suppose it would make very interesting telly as it would take all year! .