Jamie Oliver

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by azoomm

[southern drawl]"Whys we gots some feller with a funny accint tryin' tah tell us what tah doo? Well, we aints gonna doo eet!" [/drawl]

/facepalm

Did you know that bottled water isn't allowed in the vending machines in schools because it has "no measured value of caloric intake"

There are much better reasons out there for not permitting bottled water in schools than a lack of calories. Broken clock; right twice a day.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

How other's view you is not good. And it alarming that you can't see the need for change or how it even got here in the first place.

People are able to eat what they want and feed their kids what they want. Nutritional education is a good thing but it is no guarantee that individuals will ultimately make "correct" choices. Either way it is really none of my business what parents other than me choose to feed kids other than mine.

As for "how others view" us, most of the statistics I have seen give the UK's obesity rate at about 25% to America's rate of about 30%. The English really need to pull a bigger gap than that before stereotyping a nation.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by goof2

As for "how others view" us, most of the statistics I have seen give the UK's obesity rate at about 25% to America's rate of about 30%. The English really need to pull a bigger gap than that before stereotyping a nation.

They also need to start brushing their teeth.

[Porkchop]

I was watching Jaime on CNN at the gym a couple weeks before the show aired. They ran a sneak peek of an episode where a kid eats corn dogs, pizza, or chicken nuggets in some combination for all three meals a day. It was just gross. The video below is part of that CNN episode with AC. Skip to 2:45 if you want to see the mother of the kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv5Ts...eature=channel

[LeeNetworX]

I saw one episode of this show - it was the one where he brings in several kids and shows them how they make chicken nuggets. Even after showing them just how nasty that shit is, he asked the kids if they still wanted to eat the nuggets and they all raised their hands.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by LeeNetworX

I saw one episode of this show - it was the one where he brings in several kids and shows them how they make chicken nuggets. Even after showing them just how nasty that shit is, he asked the kids if they still wanted to eat the nuggets and they all raised their hands.

Show them how they make hamburger, from start to finish, and they'd likely never eat beef again so that isn't a very good test

[Homeslice]

skrilla haven't heard that in a while

[marko138]

I really don't give a fuck what Canadians or Brits think about the United States.

[Papa_Complex]

That's a common malady.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

That's a common malady.

It is pretty common internationally as well. From what I have seen the English don't much care about what we think of them. Really the EU can also be included in that. China obviously doesn't give a shit. Mexico actively encourages their citizens to illegally come across our borders for a "better" life so they are pretty much out. I think the only reason you all take notice is because of some inferiority complex that seems to have been institutionalized nationally to some degree.