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Written by Richard
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010 03:53 |
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 In an interesting interview with Jamie Olivier this weekend in The Guardian, he describes somewhat his motivation to improve children's eating habits. He clearly comes across as someone who cares dearly about making sure that people eat well.
But I wonder if he ever worries that he might lay himself open to the charge of lecturing by saying things, as he did in School Dinners, like: "If you're giving your young children fizzy drinks you're an arsehole, you're a tosser. If you give them bags of crisps you're an idiot. If you aren't cooking them a hot meal, sort it out."
"But that," he says indignantly, "came after a sequence where some obviously quite thick woman was having a pop at me about taking her kid's sticky toffee pudding away, and we gave them fruit and yoghurt instead. And while she was having a go at me she had the gall to have a baby in her arms feeding it Coke in a bottle, so she's obviously thick as shit, you know; she was clearly thick as shit, because you don't feed babies Coke in a teated bottle, and anyone who does is categorically wrong.
"I challenge you," he adds angrily, "to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes." Then he pauses, as if reminding himself to be diplomatic.
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