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.