Brendan O’Neill on Jamie Oliver
I’m not the only one who regards the tedious little mocney twat as an odious little tosser, then.
Oliver’s seeming attack on the habits of 80% of Britain (otherwise known as the masses) exposes what lies behind contemporary food snobbery: actual snobbery. His seamless shift from talking about turkey twizzlers to having a dig at our consumerism (all those enormous TVs) and our fancy for alcohol (”they get drunk in pubs at the weekend”) shows that today’s obsession with healthy eating often masks a disdain for the lifestyles of the lower orders.
And:
Today’s food snobbery is not really about health at all: it is an intolerant attack on other people’s morals, lifestyles and values.
Indeed.
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