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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.

sorry boss but i didn't even read your hawaiian post, i will do now tho.

i was replying to zees wun

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

In the same way that Christian rock doesn't make Christianity better, it just makes rock and roll worse, Oliver's not making food better, he's making Jamaican culture worse.

It's like stamping a Union Jack on "traditional fish and chips" except the fish is a salmon en croute and the chips are crisps.

This is probably the best argument against it. It's also not the same as me at home cooking jerk style veggie food (I mean, I use allspice so win there too) which is fine, but the guy is taking something from somewhere, doing it all wrong and flogging it. It's a bit like protected origin stuff like champagne and parmasan abuse as much as anything else.

Parmasan abuse.

great album name.

You really shouldn't put it up there.

Read the history of the hawian Pizza if you haven’t. There are loads of examples though.
I think we are a little precious about culture, it’s not something static it never has been. It’s like when people get annoyed with language development and new words.

i think it's problematic when it's minority cultures being cynically and poorly represented by wealthy white men for profit. You or i having a pop at, and subsequently arsing up a jerk chicken BBQ in our back yard is a different story. Dawn Butler is copping a lot of shade from arseholes on the internet who are using this as an excuse to berate her, and the subtext of a lot of what's being thrown at her isn't hard to miss.

I’d in part agree, but I also think it could open people up to more traditional jerk foods which surely can’t be a bad thing?

of course not - but jamie fucking oliver isn't the right person to do this.

I don’t doubt that. This is also part of my point it creates a perhaps an unneeded divide.

and nor am i for that matter.

#cracker.

Well I guess if it’s crap nobody will buy it

Hawaiian. Two "i"s.

Also Hawaiian pizza is fucking crime against food. Someone needs to take the blame for that. Just tell me who it is.

^ yeah that as well.

Probably stoner crackers on the West Coast in the 60s. Explains the fires: devine retribution.

Fuck I’m hungry. Any legit jerk chicken to be had around Soho?

Garfunkels.

Genuine LOL.

Apologies.
Here you go; also pineapples aren’t native to Hawaii.

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You monster

foodie snob!

Oliver's not making food better

Oi! I may not be hugely innovative but I'm a pretty good cook.

#postappropriation

Parmasan abuse.

'parmesan'

you better wear a hairnet!