Channel 4′s Great British Food Fight rounds off tonight with Ramsay’s Great British Nightmare, stock issue script by now but I have seen mention of it on Twitter and some blogs so thought it interesting from that point of view. The makeover restaurant is in Sheffield so “sheffieldblog” have twittered a link to their blog mentioning it, interesting to see if there will be any comments during or after the show runs tonight (Friday 27th). Actually, wouldn’t it be great to get the restaurant owners on Twitter as the show runs? A super idea for Channel4: Stick your make-overees and wife swappers on Twitter during and after their shows and watch the response. Liven up a jaded formula and make it interactive.
Jamie Saves Our Bacon was Thursday night’s offering where Jamie made some good points about the pork industry in the UK versus the rest of Europe. He highlighted the terrible conditions some of Europe’s pigs are reared in and asked how come the awful ‘sow pens’ have been outlawed in Britain since 1999 but not to be fully banned in the rest of Europe until 2013. I am not sure on Ireland’s take on sow-pens but any evidence from Food Culture West Cork and Ummera would point to the very opposite and some royally treated West Cork porkers, check out this post from Ivan Mcc in praise of Irish Pork (the event is over but the sentiment remains). Best rule of thumb is buy local and know your source.
Jamie’s show had some good points and interesting guests and would have made for a decent hour long show. However C4 decided to pad it out an extra thirty minutes via a series of disgusting pig births, deaths and sexual arousal’s. All topped off with a rather silly ‘Pig Brother’ where humans volunteer to be kept in the same conditions as pigs. I won’t elaborate.
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