Kip's Law Sighting: The Naked Chef
Members of my inner circle* know that I have the hots for am intrigued by Jamie Oliver, a/k/a The Naked Chef**.
Oh my goodness…
But that only buys him so much latitude when it comes to Kip’s Law:
“I’ve spent two years being PC about parents. It’s kind of time to say if you’re giving very young kids bottles and bottles of fizzy drink you’re a fucking arsehole, you’re a tosser***. If you’ve giving bags of shitty sweets at that very young age, you’re an idiot.”
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Far from being an unwelcome critic, he is helpfully touting the New Labour line on food, health and the inadequacies of parents. No wonder that when he meets Tony Blair at the end of the latest programme, Blair says he will happily extend the increased funding for school dinners for another three years.
So Oliver — who is neither a nutritionist nor a pediatrician but a chef — knows better than every single parent of every single child in Britain, if not the entire world, what kids should and should not be eating, and has no compunction whatsoever in conspiring with hack politicians and bureaucrats to impose his unsubstantiated, and somewhat arbitrary, views on children’s diets on the rest of his country, and no doubt beyond if he could.
Kip’s Law: Every advocate of central planning always — always — envisions himself as the central planner.
(More thoughts at Hit & Run.)
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*Of course, I don’t really have much of an “inner circle” — just you good folks.
**Unfortunately, he doesn’t mean “naked” in that sense — but rather the use of “naked” (i.e., fresh and raw) ingredients. Go figure.
***tosser (n.) = a British, Irish and Australian slang term for a disliked or incompetent person, generally synonymous with wanker****.
****wanker (n.) = um, look it up for yourself.
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I think I need a new target for my “intrigues.” One runner-up, Ryan Cabrera, looks a lot like Oliver — maybe I’ll bump him up on the hit parade (at least until he says something stupid and becomes an example of Kip’s Law too).
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Ryan Cabrera is much, uh, "more intriguing" than James Oliver.
But then remember, you don't have to agree with a country's politics to enjoy its scenery.
I'm with Dolphin. Sometimes scenery is just there to be
looked at watched enjoyedstalked.I'm not sure Kip's Law applies here. Sure Oliver can be an opinionated tosser (and by the way that's more British slang than Aussie – we'd just go directly to wanker) but from what I've seen his solutions are more about direct action than central planning. As far as I can tell, he's not lobbying for government regulation, so much as trying to shame parents into taking some responsibility for feednig their kids healthy food.
He's also got a program where he's started a bunch of high end restaurants each staffed by 15 troubled kids (hence the restaurants are called 15) which he tries to turn around through sheer hard work and passion. Much better than any government funded program I've ever seen.
Anyway there's an Aussie chef – Curtis Stone – who does a show on TLC here in US called Take Home Chef. According to the female members he's every bit as cute as Mr Oliver, and a lot less opinionated.