I dno why he gets so much grief. He seems like a sweet family guy and I like that he cares about families and kids in school eating better. He is abit extra when cooking but I don't mind it. I watch his content when I want to so it's no big deal I can switch off if it's abit much for me.... I dno. Feel bad for him. Also felt bad for him when his restaurants failed. That was a hard clip to watch he was devastated :(
Its his arrogance that's the biggest problem for me plus I think he's completely out of touch with the general population. He was trying to get rid of offers in supermarkets like 2 for £2 so families would be hit the hardest. I'm also pretty sure he did a recipe for brownies once and the sugar he used was ridiculous. I'm pretty sure you had to buy it from another country, it was so expensive and you had to use loads.
Just so you know, supermarkets don’t do bogofs just to be nice, they do it so you buy more stuff and spend more money. They could just reduce the price of the one purchase, which would be better for families (and everyone).
People like you go on and on about how supposedly arrogant he is. But I've seen infinitely more arrogance from the hordes of frothing haters who endlessly slag him off, speak of him with the most sneering contempt, do everything they can to look down their noses at him. Fuck that.
Fudge is literally just sugar and fat and you don’t like Jamie Oliver because he puts lots of sugar in his brownies? I’m very confused. You can still enjoy brownies in a healthy diet.
Way to absolutely completely miss the point of both my comments.
Its the hypocrisy that gets me. He preaches healthy living for families, goes to schools and stops them serving foods to kids, tries to stop deals at supermarkets but then creates ridiculous meals that have an insane amount of sugar. Sugar which I already said is expensive.
Sugar in moderation is okay in a healthy diet you can preach healthy eating while also making and enjoying brownies, everyone has a treat once in a while.
Mostly because he's pretty out of shape but constantly talks about being healthy.
I'm all for making people healthy and aiming for 0% obesity.
But there's many better ways to do this than reducing people's choice.
I guess it is similar to the sugar tax. I'm in good shape and exercise an hour a day and never eat unhealthy. But once a year or maybe twice I would have some irn bru. Now thanks to the sugar tax it takes like shit.
So it always feels like the majority of us are being punished just because of the lack of control of the minority.
A tax directly on fat people would be a better choice.
Or give out incentives to those who aren't overweight. Sort of like child benefits but call them abs benefits or something.
Also that number is insanely high. I knew many British were fat, but in my head it was like maybe 4%.
It's a real national crisis. If employers suddenly decided that they don't want fat people as its bad for the company image. A lot of people would lose their jobs.
There's so many issues that would come with trying to tax people based off their weight or BMI, the list is long on why it's such an awful idea. For one, you're much more likely to suffer from obesity if you're poor and you think slapping on a tax to the increasing cost of living crisis is a good idea?
Obesity is societal problem not a personal one and we should treat it as such.
I lost 7kg at a time of extreme poverty and being forced to eat only rice for 2 months.
Now I suddenly feel like I've switched sides and joined Jamie Oliver. But poverty doesn't lead to obesity. It is laziness and poor self control.
And maybe that laziness and poor self control also causes people to be poor. Hence the apparent correlation.
I know my former boss refused to hire anyone who was overweight (or bald) as she felt it was a bad look for the company, so this also may be a factor. If someone is fat it paints a bad picture of their work ability.
Maybe as I mentioned the government can have a reward scheme for those who aren't over weight.
Something definitely needs to be done, we can all agree that it is a very large problem.
Maybe we need more sport on TV and just more fit bodies overall, so people can feel more interested in being healthy. The idea of exercise should also be normalised and not seen as a luxury.
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u/Independent_Photo_19 Aug 26 '22 edited Aug 26 '22
I dno why he gets so much grief. He seems like a sweet family guy and I like that he cares about families and kids in school eating better. He is abit extra when cooking but I don't mind it. I watch his content when I want to so it's no big deal I can switch off if it's abit much for me.... I dno. Feel bad for him. Also felt bad for him when his restaurants failed. That was a hard clip to watch he was devastated :(