McDonalds struggling

[RadcliffeRick]

Agree, Jamie Oliver did more to highlight this than anyone - yet he gets absolutely slated and slagged off rather than focus on what he trying to achieve. Such is the norm nowadays.

I think he stated to slag them off around the time he launched his chain of cafés.

 

[DutchSMOKE11]

Do they still teach home economics at schools? In my time that was a big thing. Learnt a great deal. How to bake, cook, financial management etc.

 

[BlueHammer85]

You'll find he was thinking more of his bank balance than the health benefits.

Can throw that at anyone really.

 

[beast]

You'll find he was thinking more of his bank balance than the health benefits.

Yep, and fair play to the bloke, I couldn't cook to save my life but had a few of his books over the years and taught me so much. I can't knock him.

 

[BrianW]

You know lads, part of the issue is that money is worth fuck all these days and real wages are no higher than they were 15 years ago.

I speak as one who can remember getting 4 pints of Holt's bitter for a quid. You just look at the price of anything. A tube of glue can be £5 or more. Minimum £50 ish to get into City. And so on.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Can throw that at anyone really.

Of course you can but these ' celebs ' only usually do things like this for an ulterior motive....books, pantos, films, series, resurection of career and any other bollocks that pays their way

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Of course you can but these ' celebs ' only usually do things like this for an ulterior motive....books, pantos, films, series, resurection of career and any other bollocks that pays their way

Although he released a book off the back of his TV show, and was launching a new business venture around the same time, I think Jamie Oliver was genuinely trying to add to the discourse when he highlighted the shiteness of certain fast foods and other shite, such as 'Turkey Twizzlers'.

Companies are profiteering (in the USA alone, the food industry makes an estimated $1.5Billion per year) by selling cheap, shit and often addictive foods.

 

[Really_here]

Of course you can but these ' celebs ' only usually do things like this for an ulterior motive....books, pantos, films, series, resurection of career and any other bollocks that pays their way

The internet and payment for clicks has changed the whole concept of "celebrity".
What talent does an "influencer" have other than making money pedalling crap?
I get pissed off with all these "celebrities" jetting off for a few months on a free holiday too while they make a travel show/series especially on the BBC that we all have to pay for. The odd one like Michael Portillo make interesting programs where you learn something but some of them like the two posers from Come Dancing in Spain are utter bollocks.
Jesus , just read that back and I'm turning into Victor Meldrew ......

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The internet and payment for clicks has changed the whole concept of "celebrity".
What talent does an "influencer" have other than making money pedalling crap?
I get pissed off with all these "celebrities" jetting off for a few months on a free holiday too while they make a travel show/series especially on the BBC that we all have to pay for. The odd one like Michael Portillo make interesting programs where you learn something but some of them like the two posers from Come Dancing in Spain are utter bollocks.
Jesus , just read that back and I'm turning into Victor Meldrew ......

I don't believe it.

 

[BrianW]

I find anything with 'celebrities' a load of bollocks. In part, because I don't know who three-quarters of the 'celebrities' are. But I have to admit, a lot of people are into 'celebrities'. There's even magazines about them. I picked one up in a waiting room once and found nothing of substance in it.

But there's no denying there's a market for it, just as there's a market for soaps like Ennerdale.