Tom Kerridge everyday sexism - just so unnecessary

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BBC2 cooking programme: apparently Cornish tin miners were "big burly blokes, not namby pamby girls".

Dammit I used to like the man and his recipes! A bit of a google and I've been turned right off.

Half of the miners were poor scraggly little children (both girls and boys) anyway so its factually incorrect too as well as unnecessary and sexist, sigh.

Seven I get what you mean, I think its fine to want to aim your product/programme at one particular subset of people. However it should be possible to define that subset without having to throw insults at everyone else! I hate negative campaigning in all its forms!

p.s. apparently scientists have found pregnant women don't really crave chocolate, they just use it as an excuse to eat chocolate without guilt... how can you test what is a genuine craving and what is psychological though? [scoffing the kids milky buttons as I type]

YY LordCopper the packets even have it written on the back.

I love them and used to buy them for lunch every day but I'd keep glimsping the message on the packet and feeling fucked off so have weaned myself off now and get something else

There was a thread recently about pointless boycotts wasn't there - i'm all over that

Mind you I wouldn't buy them in the weekly shop either so that's more sales lost I guess. Still not a massive dent in their profits but still.

I just had a look for McCoys on google to see if they had a picture and they have a whole website! It's called "Man Crisps" and is set in a pub, I didn't explore much but there is a barmaid you can click on so she bends down so you can see her cleavage better, while giving a coy look.

They're fucking CRISPS. Why do there have to be boy crisps and girl crisps, with the boy crisps accompanied by a really massive dose of sexism?

Anyway, there you have it. Assume they will be off the shopping list for your family too, LordCopper?

The imaginary barmaid gave a coy look, that is, not me

I'm not surprised, Tom Kerridge showed his idiotic tendencies a while back when he piled in on a bit of twitter bullying of a amateur restaurant critic who dared to give another chef a slightly less than glowing review.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/nov/08/top-chefs-unite-against-blogger-s-review

Oooh. What an arse. And his grammar is shit.
I've gone right off him.

Actually I don't like crisps. We have them if we go to the pub... Next time I shall ask for equality crisps.

I prefer pork scratchings. That's pretty unladylike.

me too lordc

i sometimes make my own

I like that pointless boycott thread and do a bit of pointless boycotting myself in my spare time.

Is he the Scottish prick with really bad hair?

Can you make your own pork scratchings? wouldn't that make you grow a willy or something?

God I LOVE crisps.

Weaning myself off McCoys felt like a genuine sacrifice!

YAY to pointless boycotts!

yes i have several now lordc. my gp removes them for me (minor surgery) and i nail them to the mantelpiece as trophies

I used to get really annoyed when I was a teen and they still sold pork scratchings with a woman in a bikini behind (or was she topless?) and if it was getting near to the end I wouldn't buy them on principle.

I clearly have a long history of pointless boycotts of salted savoury snacks on feminist principles!

Mind you they don't do the bikini woman snacks any more do they so maybe my methods are more effective than I realise

at petula's trophy willies. May have to look up how to make pork scratchings. The ones I bought recently only had pictures of pigs. Unimaginative but truthful and non-sexist.

What were we talking about again?

Ok - recipe found. No more at the mercy of potentially sexist savoury snack manufacturers. :)

Just as an aside.

I make yoghurt. It's lovely. My DH eats it and agrees that it is indeed lovely. His penis has not fallen off.

This is a source of happiness to both of us

That is so sad about Patience Kershaw. I hate it that so many people think women and girls were somehow protected and idolized in the past.

Tom Kerridges wife does all his twittering for him as he got lots of unwanted female followers 'stalkers' on it.

So is it her telling some random bloke "Your a cunt!" then? Nice.

I don't know his wife, she may well be a foul mouthed aggressive woman who regularly threatens to smash people in, but this:

"Now your just being a c#nt! #notwelcomeinanyrestaurantever! #bellend seeya dickhead [sic]

Smash him in chef Bosi #chefsunite

Who is this guy??? What a loser!!"

seems more likely to be the man himself surely?

Tom Kerridge's wife must be starving. All that food for men in the house and she's a woman.