Top Gear: Mexicans are "lazy, feckless, flatulent [and] overweight".

[Boris Godunov]

When was the last time you dined over here then? I suspect never.

Yeah, you'd be wrong. I sincerely doubt they've overhauled British "cuisine" in 3 years.

And as MRT noted, the only tasty food you can find in the UK was stolen. Hell, even most Brits prefer curry to the crud they're traditionally expected to eat.

[Dinner]

That's not Mexican, that's Tex Mex...

Yeah, I took one look at that and said "that isn't even remotely Mexican food".

[Dauphin]

Yeah, you'd be wrong. I sincerely doubt they've overhauled British "cuisine" in 3 years.

And as MRT noted, the only tasty food you can find in the UK was stolen. Hell, even most Brits prefer curry to the crud they're traditionally expected to eat.

The curries most popular in the UK were invented in the UK.

[Dinner]

And anything that is good in the UK is from another country or part of the world.

Eh, no? There is some damn good native British food and much of the revival in traditional foods in the UK is about going through old recipe books and bringing back traditions which got forgotten due to food rationing during two world wars and the assault of prepackaged processed food. There really is some genuinely great British food.

[Dauphin]

Can someone also explain to me how British celebrity chefs made it into the US, given the egregious stereotypes?

[Tupac Shakur]

Can someone also explain to me how British celebrity chefs made it into the US, given the egregious stereotypes?

I'm a little confused as to why you used the plural "chefs" in your question, since Gordon Ramsey is the only British celebrity chef to make it in the United States. Ramsey's success says nothing about the quality of British cooking, however; Ramsey is famous because he yells and curses with great skill, which makes for great reality television that Americans love. Ramsey's food could be god awful (although it most likely isn't, since he learned to cook in France) and it wouldn't affect his popularity one bit.

[Dauphin]

True. When a Brit did attempt to get Americans eating healthily, they said **** off.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/25/jamie-oliver-us-healthy-eating

He turned up in the city of Huntington, which has the highest rate of diet-inflicted bad health in the US, only to be told to do one by incandescent citizens. The locals are big not just on junk food, but also on their freedom to treat their bodies just as they please. Obviously, they'll find friends in the Republican party, who will insist that US citizens must have the right to buy and eat whatever they choose, as long as they are willing to pay. What's a near-universal healthcare plan when the right to breakfast children on deep-fried pizza and a bucket of Coke is there to be defended?

[SlowwHand]

right to breakfast children on deep-fried pizza and a bucket of Coke is there to be defended?

Boo hoo and bull****.

[Dauphin]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1353924/Jamie-Olivers-U-S-healthy-eating-TV-banned-Los-Angeles-schools.html

Jamie Oliver's U.S. healthy-eating TV show banned from Los Angeles schools

The headline is funny, even if misleading.

[Dauphin]

Boo hoo and bull****.

Hit a nerve?

[Tupac Shakur]

True. When a Brit did attempt to get Americans eating healthily, they said **** off.

to America. Jamie Oliver is an insufferable Mockney ****.

[SlowwHand]

Hit a nerve?

Not really. Somebody puts anything in print and a fish like you swallows it down. I guess that's appropriate, since we're talking about eating.

[Dauphin]

Yes, I believe everything I read on t'internet.

[Docfeelgood]

[Dauphin]

Only in America?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4375399.stm

Sales of Turkey Twizzlers - criticised by school dinner standards campaigner Jamie Oliver for containing too much fat - have risen.

Maker Bernard Matthews said it had shifted 32% more last month than during the same period in 2004.

On his TV show, Jamie's Dinners, Mr Oliver said Twizzlers were bad for children's health.

But Bernard Matthews said the processed product contained only a third of the level of fat found in a pork sausage.