Britainology 89: Posh Nosh
Added 2024-08-31 20:33:26 +0000 UTCIt's the dog days of summer and for this month's second Britainology, we're watching the surreal and surprisingly nuanced 2003 parody cooking show POSH NOSH starring Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant. With some in-depth asides about American cooking shows where the hosts get cancelled years later for being creeps, and much more. Just what on earth is an Aga? And why are people so weird about them? Find out here.
View the whole series on Youtube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjR0yL4f0Y&list=PL3H6z037pboFfElefmrkvf_NqndEdYQgQ
Comments
Wait what does twee mean in America then
h tt
2024-10-17 19:40:41 +0000 UTCNate acting as if “you’re on a list to be on a list” is not also the core of getting things set up as someone newly living in the UK.
Heather
2024-09-25 23:01:20 +0000 UTCholy shit I watched this on TV when I was a teen, and despite the Jus Pronunciation Bit from ep 7 being burned into my mind, i was never able to figure out where it was from. it was just a scrap of memory that sat in my mind and popped back up every couple of years. thank you for unlocking another portion of my manchurian candidate activation phrase
Emma
2024-09-09 03:45:19 +0000 UTCI haven’t done a whole deep dive on this and only watched the first episode, but I’m pretty sure they’re poking fun at the chef Fergus Henderson of St. John restaurant. He’s an architect by training, but has worked as a chef since the early 90s. His 1999 cookbook, ‘Nose to Tail Eating’ (later republished as ‘The Whole Beast’) has so many strange yet evocative cooking instructions, shit like: (of onions) show them the pan just long enough for them to find themselves or: using only the barest whisper of salt.
Nathan Sanders
2024-09-06 20:27:39 +0000 UTCBanksy britainology would be incredible. Also I play in a shoegaze band that does a massive attack cover which I feel is something extremely Nate coded.
dase
2024-09-04 01:28:58 +0000 UTCAlton Brown the GOAT
Joe Wakefield
2024-09-03 10:22:13 +0000 UTCTurn out if you refer to Richard E Grant as "Old Loki from Loki" to your English wife, you do like 7 points of psychic damage to her.
Whisky_Delta
2024-09-03 09:54:46 +0000 UTCenjoying this bit on the Aga Cooker wikipedia: "Forced to stay at home, Dalén discovered that his wife was exhausted by cooking. Although blind, he set out to develop a new stove that was capable of a range of culinary techniques and easy to use. " don't worry honey, I'm going to invent the most insane oven in history for you instead of doing chores
etienne
2024-09-02 19:15:32 +0000 UTCHollering in the car because I had listened to the Courtney Barnett album with the song Nate mentioned, before starting this episode (An Exploration of Loneliness from Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit)
Andrew Buchner
2024-09-02 17:26:06 +0000 UTCMy dad is a huge fan of Frugal Gourmet and has almost every book. When he gave me one of the books he warned me "the recipes are great but the writer is a pedo". Alton Brown is a GOAT.
Connor Barth
2024-09-02 12:59:10 +0000 UTCSo glad I don't live in the Anglosphere any more.
Michael Hopwood
2024-09-01 20:22:42 +0000 UTCI guess British people didn't really think about the political happenings in other EU countries, even in the 2000s. But with spain specifically, I feel like there was a trope of the British gangster who hides out in Spain and returns as a glamorous trans woman
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2024-09-01 13:53:28 +0000 UTCI think maybe it's just the case of associating anything from the continent as being, "that's where them gays live, innit?", any whiff of effeminate vibes is immediately characterised as gay in the mind of the British Id. And Europeans come across to Brits as being that exact camp vibe.
Oliver Cant
2024-09-01 10:58:48 +0000 UTCconfirmed misogynist Nate Bethea
Oliver Cant
2024-09-01 09:02:15 +0000 UTCDid 2000s British TV portray Spanish guy as gay because the early 2000s were when spain was moving towards marriage equality?
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2024-09-01 06:30:17 +0000 UTCGot bored and did a little digging, looks like the first episode aired Tuesday, February 4th, 2003 at 9:50pm after part one of a docuseries called “Napoleon’s Lost Army” Baffling timeslot
Michael
2024-09-01 06:02:54 +0000 UTCSo happy you are doing an episode on this. Love it and force way too many people to watch it with me
Emily Kugler
2024-09-01 03:15:31 +0000 UTCLooking forward to a Banksy episode. His art seems to have become the definition of 'this is why we can't have nice things' as it just gets torn down and sold.
Serkles
2024-09-01 01:58:43 +0000 UTCRichard e grant + the talk of gay poshos is making me want to request a Withnail and I Britainology
Alex
2024-08-31 23:41:00 +0000 UTCGod I'd love to see a Delia Smith Britainology, maybe a split billing with Nigella?
Christopher Lush
2024-08-31 22:14:23 +0000 UTC
