Jamie Oliver 'employs cultural appropriation specialists' to avoid potential recipe insensitivities
TV chef Jamie Oliver has come under fire in the past for products such as "punchy jerk rice" and a recipe for Jollof rice - and he is not the only one, with Gordon Ramsay, Nigella Lawson and even Marks and Spencer also having faced criticism over their versions of traditional dishes.
I'm sure he'd be better off inventing a few politically incorrect recipes such as wokeballs on sourdough or a racebait jus. Or put some special offers in the Guardian such as one for the price of three. Must be lots of tasty possibilities there.
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The criticism of 'Cultural Appropriation' seems to me to be just a way of trying to make invisible systemic racism visible. Either that or protecting the value of certain 'brands'. Neither of which reasons impresses.
England has a rich spread of culture from being colonised (Romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Normans) or colonising (lots of eastern cultures, North America, the Caribbean). If we were to undo 'cultural appropriation' and repatriate all those things we 'appropriated' then that would set off an ongoing cultural collapse until it all ended up in the Rift Valley in Africa.
Damn! I suppose this means we'll have to stop making our own Spaghetti Bolognese and curry or we'll upset some prodnose snowflake somewhere.
Well, I looked up a few of his recipes and was shocked, I tell you. "Golden chick pea surprise" turned out to be some bloke paying girls to piss on him, and "Spicy black pudding stuffing" had a picture of some obese people of African descent doing something I don't even have a name for.
Let's rename it all, "Cultural Enrichment".
Which is what it is - other cultures have enriched ours - we're not stealing or appropriating, merely happy to have new and exciting flavours to add to (what was, simple and often poor) British options.
Must go, my Korma is ready!
Have you noticed how 'cultural appropriation' always seems to be one way? We're not allowed to cook their food but it's OK for them to wear our clothes. The business suit is traditional English attire yet half the world wears it.
DJ - yes, cultural appropriation seems to be one of those unidirectional accusations which don't mean anything if we think about undoing it.
Jannie - although prodnose snowflakes would be upset if they had nothing to be upset about.
Sam - and Manchester Tart was not as expected.
Ed - absolutely, we should rename it Cultural Enrichment because that's what it is.
Vatsmith - yes it's always one way only. I wonder if the epidemic of stabbings counts as cultural appropriation. Possibly not.
Just had chicken tikka masala. Does that count?
James - yes it does, as does our lentil curry. We're so ashamed :)
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