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He's not wrong. You do genuinely wonder how Jamie Oliver became a sucessful celebrity chef when you look at a lot of the crap he churns out.

Cos eez pukka innit

Good marketing mostly. He was part of that pure cringey Cool Britannia thing and once he got big he never fucked off.

Since his restaurant chain went under I've noticed he's been reduced to advertising sandwiches with a fake smile in Shell filling stations. How the mighty fall

Yeah, I'm not a fan. The food in the restaurants always seemed to have one ingredient too many which ruined it and the recipes in his books always seemed to have about 9 gallons of lemon juice in them.

I went to a Jamie’s Italian once and spent about £60 on a really average meal for two so I never went back.

He’ll start some campaign on undernourished school kids again to get back in the limelight.

ZedLeg wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 2:55 pm I went to a Jamie’s Italian once and spent about £60 on a really average meal for two so I never went back.

Pretty much this - although we did try a second time, thinking we may have just ordered the wrong thing - we didn't. Then never went back

He's a TV chef at the end of the day and I don't find him any more or less irritating than most of them. He was successful early on ultimately because a lot of his recipes actually are pretty decent for home cooking, and remain so.

I've never eaten at any of his places because I wouldn't tend to choose to eat at a TV chef's establishment. I've always worked on the basis that the TV aspect would tend to mean higher prices for what is ultimately average food.

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 3:33 pm the TV aspect would tend to mean higher prices for what is ultimately average food.

This too... See also Carluccio's, GBK, et al. The only one that bucks this trend somewhat is Ask (Theo Randall) perhaps because he doesn't own it.

We only tried it because we were in town shopping just after the one in Edinburgh opened and it was nearby. Wished I’d just gone to one of our usual places instead

We tried his place in George Square in Glasgow too. Once. It wasn’t bad, but Fratelli Sarti do it far better.

We went to Barbacoa in London and it was the best steak meal I’ve had in my entire life.

Even a £120 steak (just the steak) in Kobe Japan just wasn’t as good.

Dave!

mik wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:14 pm

"You hear sizzling, I hear ancestors crying"

Haha, brilliant

What an abomination Jamie made there.

This is great.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... d-54055922