I'm Fed Up With Foodies

[@PalisadeFence]

I like that the thumbnail makes you look like you're wearing a Star Trek: TNG command uniform.

[@toddie3910]

That's what I thought as well 😂

[@christinavuyk2026]

Same 😂

[@theyouofyesterday6254]

My first thought to! I thought the video was going to be about making food in a replicator.

[@Boghopper9999]

Afirmative

[@logicmemorysystems]

Commander Spicer

[@JohnnyTightIips]

I HATE restaurants using cutting boards or slabs of wood as a plate. Give me a plate ffs. Also whoever decided thar burgers should be tall instead of wide should take a long walk off a short pier.

[@EllenSwf]

A tiny cup of fries. FUCK OFF!!

[@Dalabombana]

Ha ha. Reminds me of my dad when I took him for a meal in London, “why is it so dark in here? I can’t see myself eat!” 😂

[@mattkinsella9856]

I agree, although I'd just about forgive the slab of wood if it was a decent amount of normal food for a reasonable price but it feels like these things went out the window with the plates.

[@Jan-m5c2r]

Ploughmans are often served on a cutting board 🙂

[@annemariefrank]

Exactly!

[@gideonmack2318]

Ex chef here: deconstructed food is only deconstructed because a proper pie needs to be baked for 30 minutes and eaten on the day it's made but I can microwave the filling, put a pastry lid on it and stick it in the oven for five minutes and it's done.

[@JumbleJammyJokes]

As long as it still looks like a pie 😊

[@mcmember2478]

Traitor! You took an oath!

[@piccalillipit9211]

I used to live opposite a butcher that did award-winning pork pies - he posted on the door the day he would be making them and you had to be there before 7am to get any. My GOD were they good though

[@ennamichaels5144]

Many of my pies end up deconstructed - they tend to fall apart!

[@mattkinsella9856]

All well and good if it's not £27.50

[@frankowalker4662]

I totaly agree, watching Columbo on a sunday afternoon is vital. (after my nap, that is)

[@rosem6604]

Naps are vital, too!

[@sparkcommunications2499]

His love of Columbo confirms his legendary status

[@makemosaics]

Indeed!

[@patchso]

And, without which, he would die.. apparently.

[@tedpilledtonysoprano5512]

The older I get, the more I relate to Columbo's drive to exert power over the elite.

[@simveldt]

Who doesn't love paying steak prices for mediocre burgers served on a 7 inch vinyl?

[@obscurum6]

😆

[@james.telfer]

This deserves a mention of "We want plates" 🍽️ No more random crap pulled from a skip or toy shop

[@Ron-Ayres]

I used to love WWP on twitter. 😂

[@samfallow18]

French Onion Soup. Or, as it is known as in France... Onion Soup.

[@jillybe1873]

..or "the only thing to eat when I have no money for vegetables"

[@sarahbasto6520]

or everywhere else in the world.

[@Jules_Pew]

When my kids were young, their favourite meal was called "Dog's Vomit", because that is what it looked like - pasta, cheese sauce, tinned tuna, sweet corn, finely chopped carrots & diced broccoli. Getting it to look purposely disgusting was an art. Takes under 45 minutes to prepare from scratch as should most family dinners.

[@Ascot89]

"Did you drop this pie?"😂

[@peterrenn6341]

I first saw Gas Mark 6 at Glastonbury over ten years ago. Not so keen on their newer stuff...

[@-xirx-]

Their new stuff is not as well done, is it?

[@LeonEvans_Guyver1]

I believe the 'induction' of new members took their creativity off the boil...

[@-xirx-]

@@LeonEvans_Guyver1 I give it Mark 3.5 out of 6

[@Boghopper9999]

I thought they were a bunch of burnout's

[@chriswalford4161]

But ten years ago they were on a backfield bandstand, and now they’re on the pyramid.

[@-xirx-]

5:14 The backwards shirt! *👨‍🍳 💋

[@sarahbasto6520]

I LOVE your facial expressions! They are SO accurate! They speak more than words can do.

[@ahartify]

It is generally acknowledged that the best food has always been peasant food cooked according to old peasant recipes, and that the dishes you might find at expensive restaurants in Paris, Milan, etc, are citified, sculptured versions of these recipes.

[@PDVism]

Look at the origins of most dishes that have been eaten for generations. Paella, throw stuff together with some rice and veggies. Originally there was no shell fish involved nor was saffron because it was way to expensive. Soups, throw whatever you still have in a pot with water Pizza, use a bit of dough, put some crushed tomatoes on it with some cheese and some basil Kimchi, throw the cheapest and most prolific cabbage and raddish with some spices together and let it 'mature' until it's no longer hard and the flavors are more uniform Shephards pie, use a bit of dough to make a pie fill it with whatever you have laying around of veggies and the cheapest cuts of lamb and bake it until the dough isn't soft and the stuff inside isn't hard. In short, they are all peasant or blue collared workers food Here's another example Carbonade flamande. Is a traditional Flemish dish. Made of beef marinated in beer. Invented by the workers of the coal mines, originally they grilled their leftover meat with coal, which gave the term carbonnade. In other words, a slow cooked stew of left over or cheap cuts of meat that needed to be slow cooked to make them edible. However do to a high class restaurant and they'll wax poetically about the finest cuts of meat and how the gravy is a reduction ...blah blah blah.

[@dawidjagusiak]

"The meal has grown cold like your body will grow cold" that hit hard.

[@stretch654]

I use the microwave all the time on my food to 'dissipate the transient ephemerality'.

[@dfishpool7052]

Thank you so much Michael for this presentation - I've been howling with laughter throughout - brilliant!!

[@quentinfool]

You had me at "Columbo"

[@GHo-e2z]

The soup recipe bit is class... So true, everyone trying to cram as many keywords into epic long saga's to compete for google domination. The world's a mess!! Shirt on backwards - Genius.

[@FreedumbHS]

"just until the transient ephemerality has dissipated". Brilliant

[@Blabbermouth-w5w]

Chefs are the directors of the food world, they are inappropriately praised for being overbearing, narcissists. Gotta rein these Karens of the celebrity world.

[@tobytyke308]

"... Like watching re-runs of Columbo on Sunday afternoon..." 😂 same

[@trisha8954]

Me too 😊

[@RankinMsP]

Oh and one more thing.. Me three.

[@marvellousm]

The thumbnail made me think you were presenting this video as someone from Star Trek

[@Boghopper9999]

We were promised replicators; we could cook a Sunday roast in 7 seconds, but that was Thatchers Britain when everyone just lied 😋

[@wildnfree101]

Talking of over priced soup. Only Fools & Horses pub, The Nags Head was serving some beef stew. Beef stew price to Trigger was £2.50 but, the same stew, now called Beef bourguignon, was £3.95 for the posh office guy.

[@areamusicale]

I worked in a Café Rouge, where they advertise thier food as French food, but it's all toasts and microwaved bags of meat in sauce. However, believe it or not, there were two chefs. I remember that one day the older chef wanted to put some microwaved duck on top of another piece of microwaved duck. It took him ages ... and I mean a really long time. Usually, the meal was just a bag of duck in sauce, heat it for 3 minutes and empty the bag on a plate, add a piece of lettuce and that was a £18 meal. That chef took more than 3 minutes to put the duck on top of the other duck and then left the cold meal to the waiter to balance it while carrying it to the table.

[@clivefenn5931]

I once asked for a glass of vin rouge at Café Rouge to be greeted by totally bewilderment.

[@Boghopper9999]

I think we have very different concepts of what constitutes a chef; think you mean a cook

[@areamusicale]

@@Boghopper9999 Since you have "concepts" ... let's see: if THEY 2 were cooks, then what was I? I am very curious to see what you can come up with!

[@areamusicale]

@@Boghopper9999 You never replied my question! if, as you said THEY 2 were cooks, then what was I? And who is was the chef? What is YOUR concept of what constitutes a chef?

[@isladurrant2015]

"You eat with your eyes" 😂

[@jep8480]

Fine dining be like, here's the waterless water with a sprinkle of air for 1000 dollar.

[@VL-qy4fc]

And don't forget being charged huge amounts for eating vermin; rabbit, pigeon etc

[@thesnowmiser6728]

​@@VL-qy4fc weird take

[@franklettering]

*be like. !!!

[@RitchDixon]

Wardrobe magic with the shirt

[@lyrebird9749]

" ... that was Thatcher's Britain and everyone lied "🤣🤣

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

I often spend 2-3 hours making food... but then i enjoy it. and i dont take photos.

[@sdwone]

But why would you take photos in the first place!? Just EAT dammit! 😋 (Unless you wish to PRIVATELY show off your skills to close family members and friends... Which is absolutely fine! The rest of the World need not know!)

[@Boghopper9999]

For me it's Saturday night dinner; lots of time to come up with something special or fun

[@zarakikon6352]

The only couple of times I took a pic of my meals were just to show a family member. Not to post it on social media.

[@alanwakeish]

I recently bought the complete Boxset of Columbo, so I'll be fine a good while,

[@georgelayton6641]

At 10:00 I thought you said mints, I was thinking what kind of mint comes from a cow.

[@timkbirchico8542]

what about the galloping gourmet series on tele in the 70s?

[@emmabrooker166]

Or ‘The Cooking Canon’ 😆

[@felixwaterman4448]

The Galloping Gourmet became a Christian and decided that the ultra fancy food was nonsense and started teaching people on lower incomes how to cook cheaply and well. I think it was then that TV dropped him.

[@stevehensonuk]

Towards the end of the Roman empire gladiators and chefs were the main celebs. Ring any bells?

[@smooth4553]

We made "pizza toast" in food tech. Really useful one ngl

[@2239jules]

Now that's actually worth teaching kids!

[@happymaskedguy1943]

I can recommend two recipe books: Fresh India by Meera Sodha, and The Glasgow Cookery Book. Both teach solid principles of great tasting food via recipes devoid of wankery. Just excellent food and essential skills that you’ll return to again and again.

[@ma_86]

“devoid of wankery” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@zarakikon6352]

"Recipes devoid of wankery." I like that. 😆👍. Can I have my life like that, too, please ?

[@swanronson173]

3:28 This is what happens when you dine at Pete and Berni's Philosophical Steakhouse

[@Debagio]

😅😅😅

[@eddjordan2399]

Sod it IL just have some toast.

[@David_King_05]

Finally! Someone said it.

[@karennelson4108]

I was at work when I sneaked (??) a peek.... But the Italian meat pasta dish is brilliant. The back to front shirt and the explanation was very David Brent..... So good

[@indoora]

I am the one person in the restaurant who does not take photos of the food.

[@sdwone]

Welcome to the Normal Club mate! Glad to have you onboard 👍

[@TillyOrifice]

Hot tip: If you can't afford a camera you can use your phone.

[@indoora]

@@TillyOrifice Hi, you missed the point of the post, I do not take pictures. I go to restaurants to eat.

[@TillyOrifice]

@@indoora What madness is this?

[@indoora]

@@TillyOrifice LOL

[@CoffeeBreakMysteries1]

" ....did a little moo laugh....."

[@user-on2ug8cd2y]

Tip : 12:02 Spend your money and time to buy great wine - everything tastes better and it’s blurred when you look at it.

[@karennelson4108]

Columbo is important although I am not so keen on the late 80s/early 90s episodes. 😂😂😂😂😂 Deconstructed and fusion food...... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@Jamestheblue22]

The whole context around local meat and making you feel good about the life it has had is really only to make you feel better about the animal that is dying for you. Sorry to kill the mood - was another funny video I promise

[@georgef822]

"foodie" is one of the most ridiculous terms I've ever heard. What does it mean?...Just that you like to eat nice food?......Like everybody does. Also, people taking photos of their food, where did that start?, when you whittle it down it doesn't make any sense at all. Who'd have thought we'd live in a time where it's popular to watch people eat food and watch people who are watching TV (Gogglebox).

[@galshaine2018]

In the world's of production/tourism/adventures for 'high end' people (=people who would pay a huge premium just to feel they are exclusive) 'foodie' would be a description of people who expect an unproportional share of their time invested in eating out OR having food made for them YET don't like to be called hedonistic eaters and need a haze of sophistication around their urge to eat.

[@georgef822]

@@galshaine2018 Yeah 👍

[@peeledapples4176]

I mean, why not? We have cinephiles, bibliophiles, audiophiles etc. so why not have people who deeply appreciate the art of cooking.

[@galshaine2018]

@@peeledapples4176 Well... Start with the fact all 3 hobbies you describe are ones you can easily avoid in general, not to mention the fact un untill 100 years ago most humans, any given time, never heard of them... Eating and experiencing taste are basic human conditions.

[@MPVfan2]

You forgot the duck-press from tools.

[@fairsaa7975]

I'm curious about your thoughts on contemporary art.

[@johnmoorefilm]

I love your writing and acting Michael…have you considered adding seagull sounds to your sketches?🐦

[@ceno10101]

9:57 I was so confused, cows help to make mints? Just grab the tic tacs and call it a day!

[@javierpolo8762]

This was hilarious. Loved it. :)

[@2239jules]

I stick to the backyard chef's recipes, because he cooks stuff u can actually see yourself being able to make & he seriously enjoys eating it too!

[@TheAllRounderMemes]

'What is this obsession with locally sourced meat' spot on especially for the UK

[@Undivided-X]

Probably to reduce 'food miles'. Or how much greenhouse gas emissions occurred to get this food to your table.

[@bashlove9641]

UK is filled with these middle class darlings who secretly vote Tory

[@jessicaellina3878]

Can,t beat a good fish supper 😋😂

[@juliewake4585]

I can’t remember the last time I watched either a cookery competition or a celebrity chef thing. I hate the whole idea of celebrity cooking, and why would my dinner need to look like ac work of art before I eat it? I’m bored now. And locally sourced animal flesh really doesn’t care where it was slaughtered.

[@asylumkid100]

Spot on Michael!

[@markrichley4075]

I love the backwards white shirt :D

[@dancyprus6863]

One thing, among many, about any TV cooking that's infuriating, is when we have to watch them eating the cooked results: chewing, nodding and going "mmm" because their mouths are full so words aren't possible, really annoying cliched behaviour ... I can't watch it

[@ois-jy9kl]

James May beat Gordon Ramsey in a contest whit a sheperd pie 😂

[@Undivided-X]

@@ois-jy9kl wait really? To be fair, Gordon does look like the kind of guy who doesn't cook normal food. The bloke ruined a grilled cheese once. On air!

[@a.t.c.6991]

‘…using eggs that I laid myself…’ 🤣

[@JerusalemArtichok3]

Please do an ep on Cheese. Recently came up close and personal with the infamous Stinking Bishop and inevitably vomited due to the extreme rancid smell; I've a dislike for cheese in general, so bit of cheese bashing is always appreciated.

[@PhilipMurphy8]

I think there is a gap in the market for a restaurant that doesn't allow Instagram photos, if caught you be thrown out saying you here for your stupid social feed and not actually hungry.

[@2239jules]

Actually, there are several here in Manchester that don't allow phones to be used at all! Let's hope it goes viral 😂

[@PhilipMurphy8]

@@2239jules I wouldn't go that far, phones are handy for people on there own

[@figthorn]

7:53 😂😂😂😂 The 2,000 word essays that precede most recipes on the internet is the whole reason why I don’t try new recipes more often.

[@algrant5293]

Thank god somebody else said this, I was beginning to think I was a party of one. The craziness of chef becoming ‘personalities’ because they cook!! Too many folk not cooking anymore, eating out, eating takeout and watching cooking shows.

[@Andrewjg_89]

I also agree with you about foodies. I also had enough of cookies that keeps on coming up no matter website I do visit.

[@dandean2345]

Johnnie Craddock told us how to make doughnuts "just like Fannie's"

[@renatejager4657]

You are absolutely right!

[@catlady5643]

I absolutely agree. It's gone too far. When I buy a recipe book, I don't want to sit down and read about your life experiences, I wan't recipes! There's one really annoying cook in my country, that writes cooking books, where only one third of the text is the actual recipe. The other two thirds are about her kids, holidays or some party she threw long ago. Jesus.

[@emmabrooker166]

Jesus wrote a cookbook? ‘Here’s some fish, here’s some loaves, now piss off!’

[@highdownmartin]

See Foodie Bollocks in Viz magazine. Brilliant.

[@mdram]

Michael please tell us you're working on a video for the Trump Harris debate. 😆

[@misstakenot9582]

Love the content, and I'm a long-time subscriber. Hate the excessive use of jump zoom though.

[@sbirchsbirch6232]

Couldn't agree more. Also I am tired of being lectured by a pimply faced waiter about how and where the the lettuce and ham sandwich I'm about to eat are from. I'm happy if it tastes nice and I can eat it in peace and quiet.

[@ETBrooD]

That hasn't happened to me in my entire 38 years on this planet lmao You sure it's not a rich people problem?

[@bassinblue]

As someone who worked in Michelin star restaurants as a waiter, trust me, we know we are being annoying, but have been pressured to 'engage' with customers, despite knowing fully well no one wants to be disturbed while they eat.

[@sbirchsbirch6232]

@@ETBrooD You should go out more

[@sbirchsbirch6232]

@@bassinblue It's actually fine if you're on a multi course menu with novel ingredients - one could forget what one had ordered. But for staples of the menu card a "Your medium rare brisket with pommes noisette, mister" is fine. Or "Ham and lettuce sandwich, enjoy" would do.

[@beanbunn4029]

People don't have gravey anymore, they have a brown dew.

[@PAL.Studios]

I've got another word for the people serving up this nonsense, but I'm told it's not one that I should use in polite conversation so I'll probably leave it there.

[@humanprojector]

Reminds of a snobbish cafe (adjacent) I visited last year which served me "Turkish Pizza/Pide" on a wooden board something without any cutlery. Asking the smug waiters for cutlery was the beginning of a bad dining experience, which unfortunately continued for months as the cafe owner kept harassing me because I wrote a bad review.

[@patchso]

Problem is I quite fancy a ‘meat pasta meal’ now ;-)

[@patrick247two]

I remember when microwaves arrived.

[@AngelaDibble-qc2ot]

Food and Baking programmes boar me to tears. There is more to life than food.

[@lyrebird9749]

Also, FYI all that "locally sourced meat" is fed on grains grown in Sth America where the Amazon forest used to be.

[@AukeSlotegraaf]

Excellent!

[@uptoeleven]

There are some decent online cooking channels. Anyone familiar with the phrases "fuck jar sauce" and "tukka fukka" knows you don't have "deconstruct' to make food nice...

[@christinelloyd8775]

BRILLIANT ENGLISH HUMOUR AS ALWAYS!! Love from South Africa!

[@katehewitt5286]

Brilliant as always... 😂

[@JeromeBeckett]

Michael you NEED to watch The Menu if you haven't, it's the cinematic equivalent of this video

[@FreedumbHS]

Nicholas Hoult's character is brilliantly annoying

[@bdm483]

I honestly really love dramatic cooking, it's probably my favourite thing to do. It's my hobby. But I was once served a deconstructed trifle, with the custard, jelly, and sponge, in different glasses. And I'm still mad about it, so even I have limits

[@BM-lb3xs]

Very cool

[@sylviav6900]

Same. Consider it a hobby to prepare good food and try and make it look palatable. Others produce and pile up mostly mediocre paintings, I like to prepare food. So, even if it's not looking as intricate, it usually tastes well. And I don't have to pile it up and clutter my already quite cluttered flat even more.

[@bdm483]

@@sylviav6900 Plus, you can eat the evidence if it's not great

[@sylviav6900]

@@bdm483 Exactly

[@Cherrytune386]

Give Mr Spicer his own TV programme 😂❤

[@musicalconnie6216]

Really funny video as usual. I definitely care about meat sourcing though, as I quit veganism due to being hospitalised with digestive issues and weight loss. I still have to follow a low-fibre diet and miss the days I could eat more than 1 fruit/veg per day without being ill 😪 Sorry to bring the tone down!

[@ipb1966]

And when something is served on what looks like a wooden bat. Just give me a plate.

[@Cedwig234]

at the end of every gordon ramsey video i ever watched when he finished cooking and went "wonderful, delicious" i felt like he was just saying that and didnt actually believe it.

[@Christopher-xd5in]

I grew up watching Julia Childs and using old Betty crocker cookbooks

[@alejandropeca7515]

Patrick Boyle and now Michael are my fav Brits 🇬🇧 we, gen X and millennials are becoming grumpy too fast! 😅 On the topic: In the early 2000s, I discovered Jamie Oliver. I became a 'foodie' because of him! The difference was, we learned to appreciate food and to cook for our families, friends and partners. In short, social media vulgarizes and superficializes every good aspect of life. We just have to stick to good habits and hobbies even if we find ourselves in the company of people we don't respect. They will leave at some point. 😊

[@JeromeBeckett]

Gas Mark 6 is actually a great indie band name. Better than Michael and the Spicers anyway.

[@copiouscareerist]

I aspire to having eyebrows that look as good as yours.

[@chrisnightingale5529]

First thing I’m gonna look up on KZbin after this is a “Moo-Laugh”

[@p.jackson9657]

I got a microwave for Christmas 2015. I clean it and around it all the time, never used it.

[@nicknebs]

Mr Spicer, I just saw you in the trailer for apples tv series disclaimer, why are you not credited on IMDb? You are having a go at Kate B in the trailer and everything! Look forward to the 7 part drama. Mainly because you’re in it.

[@The_BenboBaggins]

Bloody love eating, and Columbo!

[@markwilliams2620]

In America, we have had, for close to 15 years, the "3 sods grovel in front of 3 plunkers" like you have to endure. Uhg. I am old enough to remember PBS having "cooking shows" where I learned to try new things. That said, my salad spinner is top notch.

[@Cherrytune386]

I love cheese n beans on toast 😂

[@2239jules]

That's my tea tonight. U can't get that at a Michelin starred restaurant 😂

[@2ndCOATrequired]

The “Emperor’s New Potatoes”. Xxxx