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Jamie, Jamie, Jamie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45246009

Still the man needs to make money to prop up his failing empire.

what the fuck is 'jerk rice'?

can you even jerk rice?

tit.

Mr Sam is a winner

"No but I’m honestly upset bout this Jamie Oliver jerk rice. Rice can jerk!? Friggin yam head, Only 2 things can jerk an is chicken an pork, likkle teefing bwoy dem. They love to copy other ppl things and sell it, hardly even know what the term mean"

predictably the internet gammons (which is something you can Jerk) are out in force, missing the point spectacularly by letting us know what does and does not constitute cultural appropriation because they made spag bol last night or some shit.

i am too scared to use the internet these days.

it was a terrible mistake. it should be turned off.

Brexit will fix it

Will a gammon-esque Victor Mildrew-ish personification of brexit be like a bogeyman who creeps out of the shadows any time someone says "spag bol" and gives them a solid backhander?

If so, I could really get behind brexit

Great minds think alike.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070802/011353.shtml

Is there a week that goes by without him being called out for misappropriating some sort of dish?

His carbonara with *gasp* garlic & peas, or his paella with, omgthehorror, chorizo and no sofritto.

A veggie Feijoada? Fuck off, Jamie.

From now on, you get to cook Essex food, and nothing else.

Gammon & eggs all round.

(No pineapple, as that's cultural appropriation from the Hawaiians. Or something.)

am i still allowed to call my pals 'esse'?

No dude. No.

OK hombré?

No.

The Hawian Pizza May be the best argument for or against cultural appropriation. It’s a fun history.

Cultural appropriation isnt about (in this case) not being permitted to make food from a different culture, it's about not showing respect for the culture you are referring to, which is precisely what Oliver has done in this instance with this ersatz bullshit.

Anyone know if it tastes nice though? Thats the deal clincher.

At Uni (Shef) my local curry/pizza place used to do a Hawaiian pizza, but being run by Muslims it had no ham on it. Cultural appropriate swings both ways.

Chicken has no place on a pizza ever but they did an amazing Chicken Tikka pizza.

Can someone just freeze Jamie and hammer him into some grass somewhere.

I'll eat my hat and cycling shoes if someone really did set themselves on fire in a council office and there's conspiracy not to report it. Well, set themselves on fire as a political protest as per the Tunisian guy and the buddhist monk in Vietnam. Something fishy here. In the way that it's currently being presented it's fake news.

So by using the word jerk, he was being disrespectful?
Or because the ingredients didn’t reflect what some people call jerk?

Twitter or what’s the deal here?

Jerk is quite a specific thing done to meats using not the things he used.

yes, i'd say that's pretty fucking disrespectful insofar as he clearly couldn't be arsed to do anything beyond take a word that has cachet, make something (not meat) a bit spicy, smash his fatuous mug on the packet and charge people for the pleasure.

imagine this idiot, but on a plate.

fuck that noise.

I couldn't eat a whole person.

Trouble for me is it suggests culture as singular and of one origin and static which it clearly isn’t. It also has an element of presumed racism/ oppression in many of the discussions I have seen again this creates divergence.

My hawian point which you seemed to be referencing your previous post to is a clear example, it’s really not that dissimilar to this and in many ways worse.
Perhaps it dilutes the history of culture but we’ve constantly been doing that.

you've never even tried.