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Cheers Wolf. (sets watch till someone tells us he was a veggie)


Muley, you mean Rick Stein, of course. I'd like to pour impotent scorn on him from behind my sweaty keyboard, but he seems a decent sort of chap. That Chalky was a right bellend, thoughbut.

That's the fella. Always seems truly enthusiastic about the food, rather than bolstering his own celebrity. You're right about that little git Chalky though- probably took his name from a Jim Davidson 'joke'...



"There is a vegetarian option- they can f*ck off!"

giggirl Wrote:

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> I would like to be stuck in a lift with George

> Clooney. I'm sure he must cook some time so he

> qualifies.


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Yeah, he does a mean pork sword.




W**F

Ted Max Wrote:

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> Early on in the recent wave of TV chefdom - say

> early to mid 1990s? - there was a grumpy bloke

> called Kevin who never seemed to grasp that you

> had to at least pretend to be likeable, and to

> like other people. He had a programme called

> "Can't Coook, Woern't Coook" in which his

> exasperation with the bovine contestants was

> outshone only by the naked flame of his ambition.

>

> I'm sure he had some early gigs on Ready Steady

> Cook, as well, probably in a dream duo of

> grumpiness with the enormous, yet strangely

> preening, Brian Turner. No doubt Fern had him

> shipped off to some cruise ship to cook paella for

> the rest of his life for retired policemen from

> Braintree.

>

TM I did for a short time genuinely think that Kev and Brian were the same person. I put their differing sizes down to somewhat dodgy eyesight and perhaps doing more vodka at the time than even John Torode does these days.

What innocent drunk telly watching days, they were. Absolutly over now of course.

Well done RD but is Padme Lakshmi really a chef even though she's really fit.


Aside from that. How could we forget possibly the most annoying chef of all time and lore. Remember when channel 5 was launched and we had to put up with the one and only Nancy Lam.


http://www.nancylam.com/nancy/images/c5.jpg


I rest my case.

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