Britain's Really Disgusting Foods: No Shit Spurlock

This programme which is going to be shown on BBC Three tomorrow is apparently going to blow the lid on the meat industry. You might have already seen the trailer, showing how chicken Kievs are made. Apparently they're made from the pulped skins of chickens and presumably any other bits that won't go into fillets and other meat products where the body part is quite clearly identifiable.


On the one hand I think programmes like this are pointless in that they state the painfully obvious. Who'd have thought that chicken Kievs aren't in any way natural? I mean, it's perfectly reasonable to expect to be able to cut open a chicken and find a cavity inside it's body running with a mint and herb butter sauce, right? Just in the same way that if you cut a pigs guts open a load of sausages fall out.

This reminded me a bit of a column that serial queer-basher Richard Littlejohn spewed out a few years ago where he lambasted vegetarians for eating burger and sausage-shaped protein meals (Quorn, Linda McCartney, etc).

"I've never understood why vegetarians have to make everything into burgers or sausages before they can face it." Because that's what a cow looks like when sliced horizontally doesn't it? A fucking burger.

"We carnivores don’t carve our steaks to look like carrots." No? And we omnivores don't carve our carrots to look like steaks either, Dick.

Actually, if you want a quick laugh, try Googling for any subject which begins with the phrase 'richard littlejohn'. The results are quite amusing:

Seriously though, did anyone actually think that it's only the good bits of the pig or the chicken that make up sausages and Kievs? Did Morgan Spurlock seriously think that he would be anything but a complainy impotent ball-bag man after eating and drinking nothing but McDonalds for a month?

On the other hand I suppose it's fair to say that there are people out there who don't know that packs of 19p sausages from the local Try 'n Save aren't nutritionally sound. Otherwise there'd be no health/obesity crisis. Perhaps it's a timely reminder that though we live in an age when you can update your Blogger via a sweet new mobile phone, a lot of what we eat is still, unfortunately quite literally, a load of old bollocks.

Linky: The Sun