Good fat and bad fat
This comment nicely sums up a bit of snobby rubbish from Jay Rayner:
Jay Rayner: "What we are witnessing is...symptomatic of an age-old and deeply chronic divide in this country between those who give a toss about what they eat and those who, frankly, do not"
No, my overprivileged friend, what we are witnessing is the fact that there are many people in the UK whose lives are about little more than survival.
The last thing somebody living on the financial edge needs is a fat, effete, absurdly goateed, man gloating over their decision to eat a Big Mac rather than prepare a delicious mung bean and nettle salad.
It's horribly reminiscent of Brass Eye's distinction between "good" and "bad" AIDS: good obesity, ie Rayner's, comes from organic cream and foie gras; bad obesity comes from KFC and kebabs. The Guardian/Observer should consider a regular Kick the Poor Monthly for their more callous columnists to freely pour bile over the poor.
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February 24th, 2009 - 10:49
As much as Jay Rayner is probably a knob, this commentator expresses an attitude I don't like. It sounds like something Brendan O'Neill would spew forth.
Why shouldn't the poor eat good food? It is quite often affordable, if people know how, & if they don't they should be told that they do have an option other than shite. Yes, people can eat rubbish if they want to, but no one is obliged.
I am on well below £20,000 a year & have done my time on benefits. I have been a council tenant for years. But I've never succumbed to fast food & I don't think shiteis all that the working class are fit for. I actually find such an attitude patronising.
Yes, some people eat pointlessly expensive food as a sign of snobbery. But the experiences of other countries & some people in Britain shows that it's possible for someone on a low income to eat well. I do not accept that because of my relative poverty I am a lesser being & should content myself with kebabs.
I am forever grateful for my bioloy teacher in high school explaining nutrition, a subject on which I previously knew nothingdue to my upbringing. People were free to ignore that advice & most did. But it was welcome here.
February 24th, 2009 - 12:08
I think my eyeballs exploded from the irony of Forehead’s reply.
Sorry. I’ll get a mop and clean up.
February 24th, 2009 - 13:24
Don't quite see what is meant to be "ironic".
I do not like the attitude of people like Brendan O'Neill & this person who thinks he has constructed a knock-down argument against Jay Rayner.
February 24th, 2009 - 23:19
It’s ironic because your argument against JimPress’ reply as quoted above really is just a rephrasing of Rayner’s original points. Rayner doesn’t seem to think economics enters into food choices, and neither do you. Rayner thinks that because he can eat well, anyone can eat well, and so do you.
I found it ironic.
February 25th, 2009 - 10:22
Yes, but Jay Rayner is wealthy. I am not, yet I manage to eat well.
I am arguing against the idea that just because people are poor, they have to live in filth.
Jay Rayner probably is a knobhead, it doesn’t make JimPress right. Also anything that reminds me of Brendan “the cunt” O’Neill WILL drive me into a blind rage.