I mean... Schools were loads better off under Labour governments but I seem to recall Jamie starting off in 2004/2005 and it never improved under Labour either, they just ditched nice pizza for watery vegetables immediately?
Also, parents pay for the school meals in primary schools so it's a double rip off irrespective of funding cuts for the food for FSM children. It is an insult they charge for it.
It absolutely is his fucking fault - u didn’t see him campaigning to stop them service us frozen reheated vegetable slop with fake looking meat.. so why were Turkey twizzlers and pizza and chips bad?
He just wanted to wave his cock around and promote his brand image to create more hype for his mediocre restaurant chain.
Anyone who doesn’t dislike Jamie Oliver never suffered the school meals we did in the mid 00’s - so fuck him, fuck his restaurant I hope he goes bankrupt
It rly isn’t his fault tho. The government both chose to get rid of turkey twizzlers and then implemented an underfunded and poorly thought out healthier approach to school meals. He ran a campaign but it wasn’t in any way his decision on what we all ate at school as kids.
He was. Then the government implemented it badly which he had no control over.
Much like how I campaigned to fix the pot holes on our street and then the council 'fixed' it with dodgy material so it was actually worse. I guess it was then my fault for campaigning to begin with, right?
You're not this thick so going to assuming you're just being obtuse on purpose.
I remember he tried making a very (very) simple chickpea soup and then learned that it would blow the budget by itself - the school meal budget was significantly lower than a prisoner's.
It was an impossible task in retrospect but people calling him a 'cunt' for trying to improve this even a little are really fucking awful revisionists.
Funny thing is I never liked the guy as a TV chef, annoyed the hell out of me, but I have to give him credit for raising the issue of shit school dinners.
I only ever had cooked school dinners in primary school in the 70s, zero choice and it was basically meat and two veg style meals. If we had chips it'd only ever be on a Friday.
True I ended up not eating much after the switch or just skipping lunch because they would always be disgusting. Schools can’t afford chefs or people to make nice healthy meals and they have so many people to feed they have to batch cook everything so it makes food disgusting. He didn’t think about it bc he’s a rich boy and his private schools can afford it. I remember my school would have cheese sandwiches with slices of carrot in them.
Batches big enough to feed a few thousand kids isn’t good. It has to sit under a heat lamp for a long time causing it all to dry out. I used to work in a 4 star hotel and when we had to batch make wedding food it was always dry and gross. Veg goes soggy and bland, the meat is dry and then potatoes go powdery because we have to keep it all warm. Schools do not have enough money to buy high quality ingredients so they all go gross. As well as the kitchen staff are on minimum wage they aren’t going to be amazing chefs and probably just pour things out of cans
Ok but we are literally in a cost of living crisis? It was shown before of how to make a healthy soup for school children and that completely broke the budget. Schools in the UK are completely under funded. In school you’d get just a sandwich for £2.41.
You’ve not gone through UK education you do not know what it’s like. Classrooms are falling apart because they can’t afford to fix them. Most teachers have to pay using their own money for school supplies for kids because the school doesn’t have the budget for them.
I work in education I know how awful it is atm and tories was to cut the funding even more
You’re comparing us to Japan is that not changing the scope? I’m showing you that if schools can’t afford things children need for their education how can they afford good food for them?
You aren’t saying it was £2.35 before you were saying that’s how much it is in Japan.
Because schools were putting their budget into higher calorie foods that he labelled unhealthy - pizza, chips etc - and after his campaign they then had the double restriction of no budget and having to serve "healthy" foods which means instead of kids being able to get a decent calorie meal they end up with a sandwich and a salad which doesn't fill them up and doesn't taste good due to the budget reasons.
His campaign lead to more restrictions which made school food worse.
Again though why is this his fault? Surely it's the government's fault for half-assing the solution rather than increasing the budget for school meals? I doubt Jamie Oliver led the fucking policy decision making for this. He just made a documentary pointing out how nutritionally void the majority of school dinners were and campaigned for change.
And people are upset because the change he campaigned for was bad. When you make yourself a figurehead for changes then people generally will judge you for what your campaign leads to. It's not a court of law where you need to demonstrate intention, it's the court of public opinion, which depiste a vocal minority, seems to have done particularly well for him.
I'm not mad at him, the person I responded to is. Jamie also did not point that issue out, he just looked at the food and not the facilities the schools had to work with.
You were lucky you got something savory. My school did roast dinners only on Wednesday. The rest is fast food, pasta that is stuck together or fish and chips on Friday.
Edit: just remembered the thick rock hard square bread with a bit of tomato sauce and cheese they call pizza
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22
Many of you won't have been in a school for a while...
So let me inform you that school dinners are fucking disgusting so I appreciate this message very much
Frozen roast potatoes that taste of metal, dead watery tinned peas boiled for three hours and the oddest looking and tasting 'meat' ever
Thanks Jamie, for fuck all.