Jamie Oliver is STILL a massive cahnt

[LiamO]

Oi! Povvs! What are you eating that crap for. It's simple to eat healthily like my mate the Sicilian street sweeper. Just make a few common sense changes to the recipe and you're laughing. Spaghetti may be the cheap energy rich staple carb of choice in Italy, but in the UK that job is served by chipped potatoes. A nice savoury tang of umami may be provided by 25 cooked mussels, but seeing as Rotherham is about 70 miles from the sea, perhaps you could use a British speciality that travels better and lasts longer, say a sprinkling of Cheddar cheese. - It's hard to get tomatoes to grow and ripen in Rotherham in the winter, but to get around this, people often preserved the flavour of tomatoes in a special chutney-like sweet preserve called Tomato Ketchup, add a dollop of that and you're away. - I call it Jamie's British spaghetti, Mussels and tomato sauce. Now settle down and enjoy your meal, and while you eat it, why not catch up with one of my shows on your television.

Now that is genuinely funny.

 

[barney_pig]

how the fuck is a man supposed to maintain his dignity while he is supergluing his shoes together cos he can't afford a new pair?

this is it, this is the key thing. They aren't content with robbing us, oh no. They have to call us lazy cunts who don't know how to manage money while they take ours.

I swear to the lord there will be a reckoning.

someday.

I went through a winter using cardboard to plug the holes in my shoe soles. Works ok if you avoid the puddles.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I was duct-taping my shoes up not too long ago. Pro tip: duct tape doesn't stick very well to material, so you need to make sure to put it over rubber or plastic areas. Waterproof, though, and pretty cheap.

 

[Fez909]

I glued a pair of shoes together this week. And I've done the cardboard in a hole thing, too, when in desperate need of shoes for a wedding. And yes, it rained. The glue was a triumph, though. They feel stronger than when they were new! <plug>Wilkinson's "Shoe Glue" contact adhesive.</plug> Good shit!

 

[N_igma]

I don't even have a pair of shoes

 

[pissflaps]

i was so poor i had to eat my shoes.

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[goldenecitrone]

i was so poor i had to eat my shoes.

I had to feed a family of eight for two months on one sandal.

 

[Mungy]

I had to feed a family of eight for two months on one sandal.

i had to wear sandals to school whilst my peers all wore brogues. you third world people don't know how lucky you were.

 

[cyprusclean]

I heard that Tesco reduced their food prices considerably towards the end of the day.

There's always the Pound Shop, for canned stuff.

 

[isvicthere?]

Oh, ffs.

Look, the world doesn't need Jamie Oliver to tell us how to cook cheap healthy food, every single bloody corner of the media (not to mention the internet) is saturated with recipes, cookery advice, nutritional advice and whatever else you might need.

Now there's nothing wrong with adding to that, writing a few recipes you think might be especially helpful to people on low budgets, but everything wrong with attaching that (quite minor in the greater scheme of things) bit of advice to a load of prejudiced, judgemental guff about how people live their lives, and the choices they make with their time and money - reinforcing a growing tendency to blame poverty on the poor.

That's what make JO a cunt.

What is interesting about this thread the lack of an "is he/isn't he a cunt?" dualism. The only disagreements appear to be in what way he is a cunt, his cuntiness being apparently axiomatic.

 

[isvicthere?]

I just stopped at a Tesco Express to buy some eggs, fruit and veg and it cost me a tenner! The 6 eggs alone were £2.50.

I bought a big spud - admittedly a very big one - in Sainsbury's yesterday, and it was 93p! Nearly a quid! For a spud!

 

[Sprocket.]

I heard that Tesco reduced their food prices considerably towards the end of the day.

There's always the Pound Shop, for canned stuff.

You should see the crowds of local folk at both the Tesco and Asda at the end of the day around here, nearly fighting to get the whoops food and cheap foodstuffs and if you saw the amount of produce skipped, it is ridiculous.

Fucking capitalism!

 

[cyprusclean]

I bought a big spud - admittedly a very big one - in Sainsbury's yesterday, and it was 93p! Nearly a quid! For a spud!

I think those places are expensive.

Thank God for Aldi and Lidl. But depends on location. On a visit to Boscombe/Bournemouth a few years ago, I was impressd by the selection, in a relatively small location, of supermarkets. Good public transport too, up and down the Christchurch Road.

 

[susie12]

i had to wear sandals to school whilst my peers all wore brogues.

 

[J Ed]

This article is really good http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...erity-cooking-jack-monroe-hijacked-moralisers

 

[ddraig]

he is doing a mumsnet thingy this afternoon
and i don't want to make anyone else feel sick, but just discovered there are people that call themselves "Jeleivers"
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet...amie-Oliver-webchat-Thursday-29-August-2-45pm

 

[frogwoman]

he is doing a mumsnet thingy this afternoon
and i don't want to make anyone else feel sick, but just discovered there are people that call themselves "Jeleivers"
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet...amie-Oliver-webchat-Thursday-29-August-2-45pm

well if you didn't want to you're doing a fucking good job

 

[ddraig]

sorry! still cleaning the sick from my mouth here

 

[frogwoman]

I don't know if I can live in this world much longer.

 

[barney_pig]

You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your chef gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for fifteen
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

 

[barney_pig]

Twenty six fucking quid!

 

[captain acab]

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jamie oliver is an insult to cocks, tbh

 

[butchersapron]

And Mrs Beeton seems a sad story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Beeton's_Book_of_Household_Management

What's sad about that?

 

[butchersapron]

Some sums:

If he bothered to do a few sums, the gourmet chef would quickly discover that he is excreting orally, and the two things are barely related. These days you can pick up a 40 inch TV from Tescos for £340. That sounds like a lot except, unlike food, which you eat every day, the average TV is replaced just once every six years. Over that time period, a household of four will eat 17520 individual breakfasts and and dinners. Taking away free school meals, the household will also consume 6360 lunches. This makes a grand total of 23,880 meals. If this household had not bought it’s widescreen TV, it would indeed be able to spend more money on food – to be precise, they could spend an extra 1.4 pence per person per meal, an amount more commonly known as “fuck all”.

 

[barney_pig]

Amazon has my review as the first one

 

[Thora]

We have two big flatscreen TVs - one was second hand and cost £90, one was new from a catalogue and about £350 I think but we're not paying anything in the first year and then after that it'll cost less than a couple of takeaways a month. I know it is going to cost more in the long run than buying up front but haven't people always done that? My parents and parents-in-law both rented TVs (think my PIL still do) so must have paid massively more than they were worth over the years.

 

[barney_pig]

We have a new tv. When my bonus came through earlier this year my wife was determined we would have something real to show for it, rather than let it fritter away on bills. We bought a 32" 3d one from the sainsburys online, half price for £199 which with our staff discount worked out at £169. Never use the 3d, but its a lovely tv.

 

[treelover]

I went through a winter using cardboard to plug the holes in my shoe soles. Works ok if you avoid the puddles.

those of us who have very big feet have to do this regularly as it si hard to get suitable shoes.

 

[treelover]

This article is really good http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...erity-cooking-jack-monroe-hijacked-moralisers

That's an excellent article by SEYMOUR! and quite frankly I'm surprised he can write so incisively about a real class issue and with empathy, etc.