BS: Passionate About Food

Subject: BS: I'm Passionate About Food
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 04:48 AM

This phrase appears to be a new mantra on UK television. I can guarantee that it is a phrase that will be uttered at least twice, and often more frequently, on any given evening on British TV. I think that it is time that it was banned - along with TV chefs and cookery programmes!

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 04:57 AM

Especially this chef.
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 05:48 AM

Nice one John 'G'! You've made my day!

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Alec
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 06:59 AM

I would expect being passionate about food to be a prerequsite for promoting it on T.V.So the phrase ought to be redundant.
For all his faults Brian Sewell does not go around telling people that he is passionate about Art.
That is,quite properly,taken as given.

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 07:45 AM

Or in the case of Gordon Ramsay," fucking passionate "

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: melodeonboy
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 09:12 PM

Unfortunately, this is not confined to food.

Look at job adverts: The words "passionate" and "exciting", and others of their ilk, make regular appearances in adverts for jobs which, if you read between the lines, are as mundane and pointless as hell.

A brief shufti through the latest KM (Kent Messenger) Jobs has netted two examples of "exciting" but none, alas, of "passionate". I swear this is the exception rather than the rule.

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 10:06 PM

Asking people if they 'want fries with that' CAN be exciting when they punch you in the nose, and the results of THAT can get very passionate....

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 07:44 AM

The life of a banjo player can be like that Foolestroupe.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Black Beauty
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 08:35 AM

Love seafood, anything Italian or Chinese.

Love Charlotte

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Alec
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 09:04 AM

A Rabbi,an Imam & a Buddhist Monk go into a Pizza Parlour.
The Waitress walks over and says "What would you like on your Pizza?"
The Rabbi says "I like Seafood, but my Faith forbids me from eating Shellfish.Make me one without Shellfish."
The Imam says "I would like a meat topping,but my faith forbids me from eating Pork.I'll have one without Pepperoni."
And the Buddhist Monk said "Make me one with everything."

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 11:25 AM

I drather food shows than those trillions of bloody home deco shows.

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 05:18 PM

Hi 'Black Beauty',

Long may you continue to enjoy those food items - but please, please, please try to avoid appearing on British TV and talking about them. And if that proves impossible try to avoid telling us that you're 'passionate about them'. You see the trouble is that, for some strange reason, dozens of people appear every week on British TV to tell us that they are 'passionate about food' (they actually mean sourcing the ingredients and cooking them). This phenomenon has reached plague proportions AND IT IS REALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES!!!


Sorry, lost control and flipped out there for a bit - won't happen again - think I need to go and lie down now ...

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 05:43 PM

I think you were getting a bit too passionate there, Shimrod.

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Roughyed
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 12:19 AM

I'm with Shimrod. There's something unnatural about being 'passionate' about food. I can manage mild enthusiasm - would that do?

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 08:06 PM

"passionate about food"...Like in the movie "American Pie"?

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:17 AM

Nothing wrong with being passionate about food. It's a good thing. We eat more than we have sex or play music, and plenty of people get passionate about those.
Like sex, though, I'd rather do than watch. Gastroporn is an empty experience. I do wonder if it really does make the viewer think twice about where his or her food is coming from and how it's cooked. Most people seem content to eat crap, judging from the trollies I see being wheeled around supermarkets.
For me, food is one of the joys of life and I love sourcing it, cooking it and eating it.

Subject: RE: BS: Passionate About Food
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:06 AM

I can do ' greedy ' but not passionate.

eric