On Gordon Ramsay and the jackboot of the law
Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
The man has truly disappointed me by stating that serving out of season vegetables should be illegal (seriously). Perry de Havilland doesn’t put too fine a point on it:
I like the idea of third world farmers pulling themselves out of poverty and selling me their products whenever I want to buy them…[W]hy should a loud mouthed self important chef and a bunch of fascistic green activists get to have a say in that? Their craving to impose their will on others should stop being socially acceptable and they need to be called authoritarian thugs to their faces.
Filed under: Life
Spot on!
Plus he’s a total hypocrite:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2279271,00.html
If we took the sweary chef’s idea (and I use that term very loosely) to its logical conclusion, every banana, mango and pineapple farmer would be out of business.
I think Ramsey endorsing this is such complete rubbish. First of all, how dare he or anyone (with the possible exception of my mother) tell me what I can eat, when? And that I can’t eat a strawberry in January if someone can grow it and get it to me in any damn hemisphere I choose to be? That anyone might endorse this nanny-state extremism just tells me, again and again, how many people truly crave the feel of the jackboot on the back of their necks. What jackasses.