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[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Jamie Oliver as well in the UK. People STILL hate him for trying to feed their kids better than they could. The strength of the desire in people to make life worse for themselves and everyone else makes me hate this fucking country.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember having an argument with a friend about algebra in schools. Her kid was struggling, so she said why does he need to learn it, he can just get a job like hers where it's not needed. Every other post of hers on Facebook was complaining about her crappy job.

There's a strange mentality here that we're all struggling, but nobody should be doing better. If someone does try, they get called out for it and shamed.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The mentality of the working class passed down.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The problem with wealthy influencers like him is they always promote expensive food items with meaningless qualifiers. Local, organic, free range, natural etc don’t mean shit when you are broke. Teach people how to make healthy dishes with conventionallly grown foods you can buy at Walmart or whatever because that’s where the people who need help the most shop. Familiar foods, Vegetables. Beans. Rice. Lentils. Chicken. Nuts. Etc. not EVO, spaghetti squash, and “organic” chanterelles.

The upper middle class people who shop at Whole Foods don’t need a Jamie Oliver. And that’s what his target audience was/is.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago

Then don't buy the organic free range stuff. Jesus Christ, that's super not the issue. Every single chef promotes organic and free range because it tastes better, but Jamie Oliver always disclaims that you can get regular stuff too.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

They saw Jamie Oliver as elitist for trying to get kids to not eat shit. Did you ever see his program? It was abysmal what they were serving British schoolchildren in schools.