Do you agree with chef Jamie Oliver ?

Question

He told a French magazine that we in this country would rather spend our money on beer and large flat screen televisions . Rather than spend it on good healthy food . Does this describe you ? As its sure not me !!!

Answer 1

I think generally speaking, he's got it about right.

Answer 2

i think he was talking about America  

Answer 3

Ooh dear, so Sainsburys aren't paying him enough for his irritating adverts...

(my TV cost just 100 quid, so he is wrong in my case!)

Answer 4

No, it isn't me either. Mr. Oliver is getting himself into hot water over a lot of things he says. It just goes to show he's all mouth and no talent.

Answer 5

Unfortunately I would say that it does actually describe a lot of people in this country.

It is also a HUGE misconception that healthy food is more expensive!

I think that the problem with the U.K. diet is that a huge number of people have no desire (or no idea how to) cook a healthy meal from scratch using "ingredients" .

All I saw in Tesco´s in the U.K. last week was people loading their trolleys with ready meals and convenience foods.

My Spanish husband´s jaw hit the floor when he saw the size of the "crisp" aisle compared to the fruit and vegetable section.

Answer 6

Jamie Oliver doesn't speak for me, I'm quite capable of doing that myself. I don't need an over-rated, over-weight TV personality telling me what's good for me and what's not. I eat a healthy diet and I'm more than happy with my choice of food.

Answer 7

i think he need to sort his head out, live in the real world.

food has increased in price and flat screen tv's are coming down in price!

im going for a kfc later and ordering an lcd later in the week when i get payed :)

i bet he has 70" plasma

Answer 8

Mr Oliver comes across as young chav who has discovered decent food and thinks he has invented it.  As a chav, he may have a point as he is obviously identifying with his own natural social group.  However, if he looked around a bit more, it may come as a bit of a shock that there are other social groups in this country, that have ALWAYS known about good food and Intercontinental cuisine.  Mr Oliver should not judge us all by his own limited view of society

Answer 9

Unfortunately, i think he is half right. I live on a housing association estate, and my children  have grown and left home now, but there are many families with young children who live around me.

During the school holidays just now i have been astounded by the amount of junk i have seen these kids consume.

Coke, crisps, sweets, cones of chips, they just seem to constantly graze on rubbish.

I asked the little girl next door to me what she had for tea, and bearing in mind she had chippy for lunch plus sweets all day, her reply, noodles and chips.

So yes, though Jamie Oliver can be a condescending know all sometI'mes, im afraid he does have a point.

Answer 10

Generally speaking he is probably correct, not however in my case, I do not eat any processed or fast foods and all my meat comes from a butcher.

As for vegetables, all fresh with the exception of peas .. frozen.

Edit.

Large towns and cities are by their very nature more likely to use convinience and fast foods more than rural areas.

Knocking the Northern part of England is in 'vogue' at the moment.

Answer 11

I agree with jamie oliver BUT I HATE HIM I CAN COOK JUST AS GOOD AS HIM BUT HE GOT THE BREAK

I am a qualified chef too grrrrrrrrrrrrr

All my food is fresh unless i am havin a lazy day or ill it dont take long to throw some meat and veggies in a wok and into a bowl dinner served

Answer 12

He had a point, exposing the lousy animal welfare of cheap-factory-farmed chickens.  

So he may have a point with this.

Folks in this country ( UK ) do seem to hate to spend a fortune on good food, as long as there's plenty of booze to consume in front of the goggle-box, most folk are happy.

Cheap & nasty, fast-food rules their dining tables/TV dinner trays.

Oliver is referring to a section of UK society.

But not me either, I'm a veggie but chatting with the odd meat-eater, they've confirmed to me the value abused chicken is eaten with no conscious & no concern for their health, let alone the factory-farmed chicken!.

Good food does cost more.

& some people begrudge the expense.

Answer 13

No I wouldn't for a start I dont drink alcohol.  That is a small minded assumption of his, does he have any statistics or questionnaires of people saying these things?

Sexibum - you are probably more qualified than him.  He was just a pasta chef in a restaurant that a TV crew were in.  He just looked right for TV

Answer 14

He also wants to ban meat pies from football grounds

He also bullied people to make it to the top

He also upset Germans by saying that they like to gas chickens

He is a nasty piece of **** that should stop telling people how to lead their lives because if i ever saw him on the street i would punch him.

Answer 15

It don't describe me either but judging the amount of people around here (The Giro Club...benefits galore & more!) it is true.

All in the pub's...have Sky+ boxes...huge TV's...tumble dryers going all the time...stinking the outside of doorways on their 60 f**s a day & not to forget the pie & chips for dinner.

Me I don't have a TV so I don't have to suffer the boredom of his adverts, but I do aggree with Jamie's statement, going on what I've seen.

Answer 16

How can he speak for everyone?  He better do a little research.

Answer 17

f*****k jamie oliver

Answer 18

when will that idiot learn to keep his mouth shut?

He's so obviously bad at being a chef that he has to try and hold onto his celebrity status any way he can

Answer 19

Nice one, Jamie! Keep it up.

Answer 20

To a certain extent he has a point. I know someone who feeds her kids on nothing but junk food while she does nothing but get p*ssed all the time. Her kids don't know what vegetables are.

I love my veg and eat healthily.

Answer 21

I don't drink beer..and television isn't that important..I like games, accessories and stuff so...I love eating carrots, tomatoes and stuff..so I really can't answer this question

Answer 22

Wouldnt it be brilliant if we were all as perfect as jamie oliver?

I dont like jamie oliver i think he speaks before he thinks and says things that are completly ridiculous. You dont have to spend a fortune to buy healthy, good food. In my opinion you dont have to eat organic or from a posh supermarket to eat well.

Hes a t*t!

Answer 23

It certainly does not describe me or any of my family.

I used to quite like Jamie Oliver, but coming out with generalised statements like this won't endear him any further in my eyes.  

This after his words last week about Germans and gassing chickens makes him look like a right tosser.

Bloody pompous millionaire prat.  I bet he doesn't personally know even one northern family who fits his stereotype.

At this rate his overpriced cookery books will end up in Poundland!!!!

Up here in the north at least.

Answer 24

No its not me personally, but I can fully understand where hes coming from!

The French are far more health conscious than we are!

Answer 25

Well he's shot himself in the foot there because if we didn't buy televisions, we wouldn't be able to watch his smug "at home" shows would we?  Personally, I think he's a kn*b.

Answer 26

I like my beer and my flat screen telly, but I also like good food.

Answer 27

I think Jamie Oliver talks out of his backside.  

Answer 28

"this country" you mean U.S.A? i agree with him because about 90% of the people there are unhealthy, im pretty sure he meant that in a way that we buy things that are useless (giant sized t.v's) and things that harm us (beer and unhealthy foods) rather then getting stuff that can greatly benefit our health such as raw veggies and stuff, he doesnt literally mean YOU, if you are not like that, then im sure he didnt include you in there as "this country", only the people that are like that.

thats my input on it :)

Answer 29

Well how wrong can he be, he doesn't describe me at all, I am a very healthy eater as are all my family and many of my friends, the statement is far too sweeping and Born out of ignorance.

Edit : By the look of him he should stop dipping into so many pies he doesn't look very healthy to me.

Answer 30

actually i do, and having looked at what people buy in supermarkets, which i rarely frequent much of it is junk food, packaged and very little really fresh food.

Jamoa     exactly, our supermarket has products that would never be considered healthy in anyone's books. And the fruit and veg isles small in comparison with other products.

actually i hate to say this but its not a class thing at all, having witnessed  many obviously well to do people, pile up trolleys with as much ready meals as they can stuff in their trolley, i would say its because many are simply lazy.

Answer 31

It doesn't describe me, but I think it does describe some.