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The BBC Is Talking Smack About Me
The BBC is telling everyone I'm a salt snob who is full of s**t.
In a recent food post on the BBC Good Food blog, author Graham Holiday says:
Perhaps the use of the colloquial Cockney conjunction "innit" already has you questioning this guy's journalistic integrity. Or maybe you noticed that he refers to this blog as "Off the meathook" instead of the correct form "off the (meat)hook." Couple that with the fact that he ridiculously used ME as a "source" and we've got ourselves a slam dunk. Because as you have probably realized, I just make stuff up most of the time.
But the important thing to note is that the BBC thinks SOMETHING ABOUT ME AT ALL. Do they think anything about you? Do they even know you? Do they quote you extensively? For expert sources, do they use both Slate and you as they do later in this article? Yes- that's right- I'm mentioned not once, but twice! He smacks me down 2 times.
AND I would like to note that even though they're the BBC and stuff, and think I'm an unconvincing salt snob, I stand by my salt post and cherish, nay exalt, my ability to discern and enjoy minute differences between various types of salt.
You can read my original, apparently inconclusive and lame, BBC-punked guide to salt snobbery right here, and maybe one day YOUR dream of getting called out, pwned, blasted, and smacked down by one of the finest journalistic networks in the world will come true!
In a recent food post on the BBC Good Food blog, author Graham Holiday says:
"Off the meathook
tries (and fails) to convince me that I'm missing out with a
recommended way of tasting different salts with advice such as the
following, "Get a couple kinds of salt, and definitely include the old
Morton's iodized, fine sea salt, one of the colored salts, and a flaky
clean salt like fleur de sel or Maldon flake. Make people taste them
without knowing what they are and with their eyes closed. Ask them to
let the salt sit on their tongue and have them think about what they
are tasting. Have the group share thoughts. It's fun and you will be
surprised how different they are." Hmm, will I? It's still sodium
chloride, innit."
Perhaps the use of the colloquial Cockney conjunction "innit" already has you questioning this guy's journalistic integrity. Or maybe you noticed that he refers to this blog as "Off the meathook" instead of the correct form "off the (meat)hook." Couple that with the fact that he ridiculously used ME as a "source" and we've got ourselves a slam dunk. Because as you have probably realized, I just make stuff up most of the time.
But the important thing to note is that the BBC thinks SOMETHING ABOUT ME AT ALL. Do they think anything about you? Do they even know you? Do they quote you extensively? For expert sources, do they use both Slate and you as they do later in this article? Yes- that's right- I'm mentioned not once, but twice! He smacks me down 2 times.
AND I would like to note that even though they're the BBC and stuff, and think I'm an unconvincing salt snob, I stand by my salt post and cherish, nay exalt, my ability to discern and enjoy minute differences between various types of salt.
You can read my original, apparently inconclusive and lame, BBC-punked guide to salt snobbery right here, and maybe one day YOUR dream of getting called out, pwned, blasted, and smacked down by one of the finest journalistic networks in the world will come true!
Shut the front door! The BBC but you on blast! WHAT?
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