Ha! Jamie Oliver is trying an experiment. He took a raw chicken, showed them where the different cuts of meat were, and then asked showed them the carcass that was left. He got them to agree that this was something that should be thrown away. Then he put it into a food processor with the skin and ground it and then strained out the bony bits. Showed it to the kids, go the predictable "Ewww" reaction. Then he added some stabilizers and flavorings, cut it into nugget shapes, and breaded and fried them. Asked the kids who would still eat this, and every hand went up. He says that whenever he tried this in the UK, every kid refused to touch the nuggets.

Yes, my day is over. I hope I never ever have to do that again. All the laid-off folks were incredibly understanding and gracious. And losing 5 out of 82 is going to put us comfortably in the black, so all the other employees will have secure jobs, which is the whole point, of course. The only downside is that we asked for volunteers and the one person we all wanted to leave, didn't.

The only downside is that we asked for volunteers and the one person we all wanted to leave, didn't.

Ouch. Did you can that person anyway?

No, they can do their job, they are just really annoying. Which is not yet grounds for dismissal, although it SHOULD BE.

Indeed.

I suspect that I haven't been consuming enough calories for my activity level.

FitDay is good for tracking food against activity level, plus giving a breakdown of how much fiber, etc. (I try to track my fiber thanks to the Incredible Cranky Lower GI Tract; do you know how hard it is to get 30 grams of fiber a day?)

He says that whenever he tried this in the UK, every kid refused to touch the nuggets.

I will refrain from my Jamie Oliver rant, except to say that OF COURSE when you're a trained chef with the money and access to purchase organic, local, free-range, blah-di-blah food, it's a hell of a lot easier to "eat better" than the barely employed non-chef comparatively rural townspeople who you're condescending to "help" with your elitist foodie ways.

Once again, you git: processed food is cheaper and more easily obtainable than local organic produce and meat.

Maybe the UK nuggets suck?

The ketchup is awful. I had this sudden thought that maybe the rest of the world criticizes Americans for "putting ketchup on everything" because their ketchup is so lousy. If they had decent ketchup they might put it on everything too.

I will refrain from my Jamie Oliver rant, except to say that OF COURSE when you're a trained chef with the money and access to purchase organic, local, free-range, blah-di-blah food, it's a hell of a lot easier to "eat better" than the barely employed non-chef comparatively rural townspeople who you're condescending to "help" with your elitist foodie ways.

Very much this.

He's also ranting about the American health care system without really being clear who he thinks the problem is (mostly because he obviously doesn't know enough about American health insurance to know who to blame), so he's blaming the parents for not taking their kids to a doctor who will tell them that they're fat.

Yeah Jesse, I think some may be too old. I should just toss those, right?

A show like this could be good if it focused on systematic food issues -- food deserts, subsidies, the funding of the school lunch program, and so on. But he sees some of the actual systematic problems and then blames them on individual people -- like, he sees all the kids drinking chocolate milk at school, and he blames this on the stubborn lunch ladies who insist on following the silly rules, rather than on the dairy subsidies that lead to those rules in the first place, and which also guarantee that the school will get NO food to feed these kids if they don't follow the rules.