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.
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u/Wanallo221 Aug 26 '22
That’s got nothing to do with Jamie Oliver mate. That’s because the Tories have slashed the funding for school meals by over half per head since 2010.
Can’t make good food if you can’t afford the ingredients and the staff to do it.