Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Jamie Oliver is STILL a massive cahnt

Didn't he go preaching in the U.S. as part of his mission? Started nagging people for not knowing what a potato was etc. They told him to fuck off IIRC.

On the other hand he did blaze a trail in the chicken nugget truther movement.......
 
LiamO said:
Is he not a proper chef then? I know little about him, but I do know that silly hours and hard graft are the norm for trainee chefs... and indeed for all the other low-paid workers in that industry.
Click to expand...

The 'hospitality industry' (ugh) has some of the worst working conditions with the longest hours and worst pay. A few years ago i was living in a shared house in cardiff and one of my housemates was a head chef at a local pasta/pizza restaurant (he'd slowly worked up to the job from KP and eventually fell into the head chef role because the old head chef was an unreliable coke head who used to get wankered on the job and disappear half-way through his shift)... He was regularly pulling 16-hour days over a 6-day week and sometimes those hours were on split shifts as well. Poor fucker was knackered all the time and no better off than i was working my 8-12* hours a day over 5 days...

Another friend of mine in his youth worked in several west london restaurants and worked up to head chef from the bottom. He's around the same age as oliver and all he had to say about the working conditions at the time was that pretty much every restaurant he worked in ran off coke, caffeine and any other stimulant you can think of.

I have several other friends and relations who have worked in catering at several different levels -from cooking in the local factory canteen to restaurant work and most cooking jobs in-between (baker, chippy owner/operator etc etc) and all of them pretty much without exception cite the hideous working hours as a major drawback to the job they love.

So yeah, it is possible to work 100 hours a week -if you can handle the solitude, exhaustion and potential for getting addicted to some really nasty drugs. Jamie Oliver, as others have said here, is a clueless poverty tourist. He should stick to cooking and should only pontificate about stuff he knows something about (and no, regurgitating cheap statistics and portraying a one-sided view of how the povs live and eat after some fleeting visits to them in their homes does not fucking count!).

Maybe him and his celeb chef pals ought to do a series of programmes highlighting the difficulties people who work at the bottom of the catering industry experience. Whilst they're at it, they ought to campaign for a reduction in the unreasonable working hours and an increase in pay in order to attract more people to a job that is currently notorious for its terrible pay and difficult conditions. Oh, wait...



*was working a full and part time job at the time
 
Nylock said:
Maybe him and his celeb chef pals ought to do a series of programmes highlighting the difficulties people who work at the bottom of the catering industry experience. Whilst they're at it, they ought to campaign for a reduction in the unreasonable working hours and an increase in pay in order to attract more people to a job that is currently notorious for its terrible pay and difficult conditions. Oh, wait...
Click to expand...


Great post. It would be great if the US fast food strikes internationalised, from experience I really do think that working in restaurants is a LOT more demanding than an awful lot of jobs with higher salaries and prestige. Pay should reflect that.
 
'what about that f******* Massive telly?'
from Bevan Foundation in Wales
http://www.bevanfoundation.org/blog/food_low_income
points already made here

So what about that f***** massive telly?

What really bugs the critics is that people on low incomes should do anything other than survive. No recreation, no fun, nothing to cheer you up is permitted if you are poor.

In fact, people on low incomes actually don’t spend much on recreation. Just over 10 per cent of the spending of poorest ten percent of households (not adjusted for size) goes on ’recreation and culture’ (£18 pw) – about 60 percent of what they spend on food. Compare this with the best off ten per cent. They spend more than three times as much on reaction and culture than poor people, and more than they spend on food.

Now, if you only have £18 p.w. for “recreation and culture”, spending £12.99 a week on a 46″ TV from Bright House for 24/7 entertainment for the whole family makes more economic sense than most other types of entertainment. Having a TV is also the norm in UK society – 97 percent of homes have one, says Ofcom. OK, I will agree with Jamie that you don’t need a f***** massive one. A puny 24″ TV costs £4.49 at Brighthouse, saving £7.50 a week on the 42″. This £7.50 could, it could be argued, be spent on healthy food.
Click to expand...
 
A mass evacuation of Covent Garden took place after a fire broke out at a Jamie Oliver restaurant.
Click to expand...
Firebug.jpg
 
And yet the do-gooders argue 'home cooked' is cheaper...
Home cooking has declined most among those whose food budgets are under the most pressure, especially families earning under £25,000 a year, as poorer consumers opt for cheap and "filling" prepared foods on offer in supermarket price promotions rather than fresh produce.
Guardian - warning: article may contain Oliver picture
Click to expand...
 
Jeff Robinson said:
Fucking terrible. I'd rather eat junk food for the rest of my life than have to listen to this crime against music again.

Click to expand...


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh fuck off. As if Sainsbury's aren't prosecuting people from jacking from their bins. Talentless cunts. Shit music. Abhorrent.
 
YouSir said:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh fuck off. As if Sainsbury's aren't prosecuting people from jacking from their bins. Talentless cunts. Shit music. Abhorrent.
Click to expand...

Worst thing is that they don't even do it well, two pints and back of a fag pack I could have made even that big tongued cunt sound decent.
 
A few weeks back, the local paper revealed the Jamie Oliver has still to even visit the restaurant here that bears his name - So I suppose that's a bit of false pretences. Esp as the other two celeb-chef eateries have both had visits from ther names and one has its chef on site for a regular 1-2 days a week.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

P
Is the Tory Era Over? Farage Predicts Massive Shift to Reform
2 3 4 5 6
Replies
153
Views
8K
Monkeygrinder's Organ
M
D
Kemi Badenoch’s time is up!
2 3 4 5 6
Replies
155
Views
5K
PR1Berske
PR1Berske
tim
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby's time is up.
2 3 4
Replies
98
Views
3K
Dom Traynor
Dom Traynor
Maggot
What is wrong with government borrowing?
2 3
Replies
61
Views
2K
LakieLady
LakieLady
Humberto
David Cameron is a walking disaster. And war criminal.
Replies
12
Views
754
Mation
Mation
Back
Top Bottom