I think the bigger deal is that Jamie's "jerk" rice doesn't contain the key things that would make it taste like jerk-anything. Miers' recipe is at least meat and closer to a proper jerk recipe.
As someone said on twitter about Jamie Oliver's recipe "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."
I think the bigger deal is that Jamie's "jerk" rice doesn't contain the key things that would make it taste like jerk-anything. Miers' recipe is at least meat and closer to a proper jerk recipe.
As someone said on twitter about Jamie Oliver's recipe "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."