The Delicious Miss Dahl

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creey title for a show or is it me?

MollieO I thought exactly the same. Every single time she says "melancholy" I could slap her and all this reading poetry and letters.... Dear God!!!

A "melancholic looking prawn" ???? Give me strength!

This programme is the worst cookery show I have ever seen. I will never watch it again. SD is vomitous.

I had never seen it before but at one point my Husband said "What the hell is this?" I said I think its a cookery show but she keeps going off to her shed and reading poetry too. Very strange! It also bugged me that she kept saying melancholy over and over again. We both joked that she was gonna make Melon and Cauli at some point!

Every time the screen goes black I keep thinking that they're going to say that one of the children died.

Wrong thread as you may have noticed.

Well I have to say I love it! I want to be Sophie Dahl and talk like she does, eat like she does and spend all day cooking, reading, sitting in a little wooden shed in my garden and walking aimlessly around cheese shops. Heaven!

Sorry!

I watch this for the lovely kitchen, pots and pans, jugs of flowers etc. But the script is woeful. Last night was the worst of all with it's constant dwelling on melancholy from a cheery, rosy cheeked looking Sophie. Contrived rubbish.

Hasn't anyone ever told her it's not done to blow on your food when you're over five?

It was sort of Nigella-Lite. DH didn't fancy her and so lost interest.

Creepy's quite a good description.

my ds2 who has autism loves programmes like this as he loves food and i like to watch for the decor so no complaints here

It is beyond awful. I do not believe she can cook at all.

I work with depressed kids and I can tell you nothing she made no matter how much she repeated it in her stupid little girl voice would make them feel any less melancholy - had a shite day yesterday and her raving about how her food could cheer anyone up made me want to dive in the telly and wring her scrawny neck (a neck that doesn't look like it swallows much cheese or rice pudding I can tell you!)

DH reckons her and short ape looking bloke will have the most vile looking kids ever!

Would mazzystartled kindly tell me where to get that wallpaper from? I loved the kitchen, Sophie, the recipes, everything! I can't understand what everyone else is talking about.

Would mazzystartled kindly tell me where to get that wallpaper from? I loved the kitchen, Sophie, the recipes, everything! I can't understand why everyone wouldn't want to be like Sophie.

Oops.

here's the wallpaper

Thank you BettyButterknife

It really is dire, I'm afraid. She looks as though she's barely ever blundered her way round a kitchen before - as pretty much confirmed by the cookery-lessons revelation.

What irks me is the whole life-stylee thing - all the requisite boxes have to be ticked. Lovely desirable kitchen - check. Vintage china - check. Bunting - check. It's like something out of the Pedlars catalogue FFS (as previously much-derided on MN).

The new and terrible 'Cracking Antiques' thing on BBC2 is made to exactly the same template. All style over substance. 'Cover this manky old lampshade with feathers and transform it into a fabulous vintage artefact!' Erm, no thanks...

I watched this today and hadn't seen his thread, thank god I'm not the only one. WTF are they thinking with this one???? It is complete shite.

Can't stand it, why oh why is is trying her best to be Nigella. Oh and I hate the fact the kitchen isn't even hers.

YES!!!! She made dhal tonight

Result.

Not just Dhal. "...a Dahl's dhal...!"

This evening's wasn't as bad as last week's though. I wanted to do bad things to my TV while she was wittering on about being melancholic.

DP kindly suggested I could switch over but as I had PMT I told him my rage was better directed and expended at that tripe. He hid in a corner agreed

Tonight I was mostly annoyed that she just looks so ill at ease trying to chop things, or grate peel, or strip leaves from herbs.

I think I'm just trying to find fault...

I couldn't believe it when she was wittering on about England and homesickness and they had her sat on a fucking steam train drinking tea from a china cup, looking out on rolling fields.

Not stuck on a crowded commuter train trying to drink a Starbucks coffee, the temperature of molten lava, with your face squashed against someone's armpit. That's real England.

Agree about that ridiculous antiques programme. Who commissions this crap?

The dahl looked bogging too.

i want to beat the living crap out of her, what is the point of her?