Jamie Oliver is a no-talent hack.
Now here's a chef.
Posted on 10/18/2006 9:42:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
ROTHERHAM, England — Five months after the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver succeeded in cajoling, threatening and shaming the British government into banning junk food from its school cafeterias, many schools are learning that you can lead a child to a healthy lunch, but you can’t make him eat.
The fancy new menu at the Rawmarsh School here?
“It’s rubbish,” said Andreas Petrou, an 11th grader. Instead, en route to school recently, he was enjoying a north of England specialty known as a chip butty: a French-fries-and-butter sandwich doused in vinegar.
“We didn’t get a choice,” he said of the school food. “They just told us we were having it.”
The government’s regulations, which took effect in September, have banished from school cafeterias the cheap, instantly gratifying meals that children love by default: the hamburgers, the French fries, the breaded, deep-fried processed meat, the sugary drinks.
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If you're ever in Wilmington, DE, there's a nice tea room near the intersection of Rtes 202 and 141. Great kidney pie, etc.
Ewwwwwwww!
"You've obviously not heard of the Deep Fried Mars Bar.
Regards, Ivan"
OK, well, everyone wins some and loses some.
Cheers.
Jamie Oliver is a no-talent hack.
Now here's a chef.
Basil Fawlty: [overseeing dinner, he approaches a table where Mrs. Heath is eating with her son Ronald] Everything all right here?
Mrs. Heath: Well...
Master Heath: [cutting in] I don't like the chips. The chips are awful.
Basil Fawlty: Really? How so?
Master Heath: They're the wrong shape and they're just awful.
Mrs. Heath: Ah, he's very clever... rather highly strung.
Basil Fawlty: [forcing himself to smile] Highly strung... Yes, he should be.
Master Heath: [to Basil] These eggs look like *you* laid them. Haven't you got any *proper* chips?
Basil Fawlty: These *are* proper French-fried potatoes. The chef is Continental.
Master Heath: Couldn't you get an English one?
Mrs. Heath: Why don't you just eat one or two, dear?
Master Heath: Because they're the wrong *shape*.
Basil Fawlty: Oh, my... What shape do you prefer? Mickey Mouse shape? Smarties shape? Amphibious landing-craft shape? Poke-in-the-eye shape?
Master Heath: God, you're dumb.
Basil Fawlty: [gritting his teeth] Is there anything else we can get you, *sonny*?
Master Heath: I'd like some bread and salad cream.
Basil Fawlty: Well, there's the bread, and there's the mayonnaise.
Master Heath: I said *salad cream*, stupid.
Basil Fawlty: We don't *have* any salad cream.
Master Heath: What a *dump*.
Basil Fawlty: ...The chef made that mayonnaise fresh this morning.
Master Heath: That's *puke*, that is.
Basil Fawlty: Well, at least it's *fresh* puke!
I am glad we have the option of brown-bagging it. It's an American tradition.
Last time I ate English was with ClintonIsALiar and co in Richmond, Va
...........BTW when was the last time you visited a English Restaurant (in America)?......
In NYC: Spotted Pig, Tea & Sympathy, UK New York, A Salt & Battery, Chip/Curry Shop. In the Village and in Santa Monica, California, there are shops catering to ex-pats (and British foodies) that sell digestive biscuits, Bird's custard, Heinz baked beans, Christmas cakes, etc.
"The chip butty is a favorite food of the annelid action and cartoon hero Earthworm Jim. In the video game series, the chip butty dramatically increases Jim's health when picked up."
So maybe this kid was eating the healthy stuff!
"And THAT is considered HEALTHY????????....Sounds absolutely hideous!......."
I'm not exactly sure how you would construct such a sandwich. Gag!
We have a Irish Pub style restaurant here, called McGuire's. They have great food! I definitely enjoy the lamb stew!.......
Packed lunches are a great idea (and a useful means of barter!).
Hamburger is not "junk" food. Its meat.
Digestive biscuits?.........I'm afraid to ask..........
that was my father's policy, (you don't like what your mother made...fine...it'll wait until your hungry enough to eat it) and it usually worked. Except when he tried to make me eat brussell sprouts. There was nothing in the world...including his belt...that could make me eat those awful lumps of sh*t.
Amwn.
Funny, but true story. I recently got booted from a volunteer gig I was going to do, cooking dinner twice a month at a local fraternal organization to try and drum up some business on Friday nights. They dumped me, even though I cook there every Wednesday night, in favor of a "professional chef" who offerred to do it. I never knew that short-order cooks were now considered professional chefs..........LOL
Kansas is going nuts with their healthy eating initiatives.
I am student teaching this semester, and now only fruit juices and diet soda will be in the pop machine anymore.
Also, my cooperating teacher has to monitor how many helpings students are taking....they can't take more than 2 servings through the line because they are eating too many calories.
It is frankly disgusting.
Some of these kids get their only nutricious meal of the day AT school. And now they want to say you can't eat anymore? It pisses me of to no end.
Read it again. The child in question was eating the chip butty INSTEAD of the school offerings.
"Digestive biscuits?.........I'm afraid to ask.........."
Now don't quote me on this, but I think that digestive biscuits are just cookies.
No; the article said that's what he was eating INSTEAD of the healthy food.
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