Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
I've been reserving my judgement on 'Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution'
the upcoming television show touting my hometown of Huntington, WV as
"America's Unhealthiest City". Today when searching around for
information I found a preview for the show. I'm torn. Huntington was given it's title of "Unhealthiest City"
because it was the most populated city in a study of five area
counties, some of which were in our neighbour states of Ohio and
Kentucky. So the fact that it's called the trumped up 'America's
Unhealthiest City' (downplayed from earlier title of "fattest city")
is suspect to begin with but I guess "America's Unhealthiest
Five-County Metropolitan Area" doesn't have the same ring to it. The
statistics for which the "Unhealthiest City" moniker were based came
out in November of 2008, after which numerous articles in the US and
UK painted a picture of Huntingtonians as being globular hillbillies
who don't know no better than to eat themselves plumb full of biscuit
and fudge. The promo through the eyes of ABC's Extreme Home Makeover-style
editing this Huntington, West Virginia seamed very foreign to me. In
the hometown I was raised, pizza was not on the school's breakfast
menu and children were able to identify a veritable cornucopia of
fruits and vegetables. I even saw produce with MY OWN EYES when my
grandfather would take me to the farmers market when he went at the
beginning of every day. The reality of Huntington's makeup is quite
different than the beyond thunderdome wasteland of fast-food fatties
that some past-articles would have you believe live there. That being
said, Huntington has some very serious eating problems that need to be
addressed but not sensationalized and I think people are reasonably
sceptical of British guys pouring lard on tarps. Early reports from
my mother, a teacher in one of the schools which adopted Oliver's
changes, and from friends who have participated in some his cooking
classes have been good, I'm just interested in seeing how it all comes
off on television. P.S.: People like that loudmouth "we don't want to sit around and eat
lettuce all day" radio DJ are a dime a dozen there, it's one of the
reasons I don't live there any more. P.S.S.: Thank god for Andy Dick stealing the Huntington spotlight a
bit. I'm much rather people be like "Hey, your form the town that
Andy Dick touched two guys on the genitals" than "Hey, your form
America's fattest city." Andy, please come back and touch some
genitals to seal the deal after the show airs, I beg of you!
the upcoming television show touting my hometown of Huntington, WV as
"America's Unhealthiest City". Today when searching around for
information I found a preview for the show. I'm torn. Huntington was given it's title of "Unhealthiest City"
because it was the most populated city in a study of five area
counties, some of which were in our neighbour states of Ohio and
Kentucky. So the fact that it's called the trumped up 'America's
Unhealthiest City' (downplayed from earlier title of "fattest city")
is suspect to begin with but I guess "America's Unhealthiest
Five-County Metropolitan Area" doesn't have the same ring to it. The
statistics for which the "Unhealthiest City" moniker were based came
out in November of 2008, after which numerous articles in the US and
UK painted a picture of Huntingtonians as being globular hillbillies
who don't know no better than to eat themselves plumb full of biscuit
and fudge. The promo through the eyes of ABC's Extreme Home Makeover-style
editing this Huntington, West Virginia seamed very foreign to me. In
the hometown I was raised, pizza was not on the school's breakfast
menu and children were able to identify a veritable cornucopia of
fruits and vegetables. I even saw produce with MY OWN EYES when my
grandfather would take me to the farmers market when he went at the
beginning of every day. The reality of Huntington's makeup is quite
different than the beyond thunderdome wasteland of fast-food fatties
that some past-articles would have you believe live there. That being
said, Huntington has some very serious eating problems that need to be
addressed but not sensationalized and I think people are reasonably
sceptical of British guys pouring lard on tarps. Early reports from
my mother, a teacher in one of the schools which adopted Oliver's
changes, and from friends who have participated in some his cooking
classes have been good, I'm just interested in seeing how it all comes
off on television. P.S.: People like that loudmouth "we don't want to sit around and eat
lettuce all day" radio DJ are a dime a dozen there, it's one of the
reasons I don't live there any more. P.S.S.: Thank god for Andy Dick stealing the Huntington spotlight a
bit. I'm much rather people be like "Hey, your form the town that
Andy Dick touched two guys on the genitals" than "Hey, your form
America's fattest city." Andy, please come back and touch some
genitals to seal the deal after the show airs, I beg of you!
posted by LAB at 8:56 PM
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