Just lately, the focus has moved off Weightwatchers but stayed with food. First we got hooked on Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares - the American version which is car crash television at its best. (You know it's going to be bad and maybe put you off your dinner but you have to watch anyway). We also watched a little bit of the English version which didn't exactly make me proud to be British but at least we don't over dramatize everything like the Americans.
Just lately however, we have started watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. I had never heard of this before but basically it starts with Jamie going into a town in America which has been statistically shown to be the most obese city in the most obese county in the most obese country in the world and make the kind of changes he did in school in the UK. The second series sees him try the same thing in LA.
One of the most spectacular things that has left me dumbfounded when watching these is the ignorance of kids when it comes to food. In the LA version we saw high school pupils answer the quiz by saying that honey came from bears, hotdogs grew on plants in fields, and chocolate comes from a lake! Today, watching primary school kids in the first series who can't identify tomatoes, potatoes or aubergines but immediately recognised chicken nuggets and pizza.
Although the all time winner that I have heard this year is that German children think that cows are purple due to a certain Milka chocolate company!!
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