5 replies to this topic

[Alan]

How on earth did we watch and enjoy characters like that weird bearded guy Philip Harben? And what about Fanny Craddock eh? A face you could chop sticks on

[Olliebeak]

At least Philip Harbern looked as though he enjoyed eating the food that he cooked!

For anybody who's never seen Fanny Cradock - you've just got to watch some of these!


I was a fan of Graham Kerr - The Galloping Gourmet - but he was 70's!

Edited by Olliebeak, 16 December 2011 - 10:05 PM.

[non sibi sed omnibus]

My wife watches these so called 60 min cookery programs.They are built round the same format as 60 minute makeover.Its just like watching paint dry.No sane person knows that these cooks do not do it all in 60 mins and god knows how the people who eat the food during the program arnt sick.Most of the food is almost raw or precooked/halfcooked.Then flipped onto so called square plates and whisked over with some god forsaken greenery/or sauce in the name of "with it".Perhaps it was the same in the old shows.
To me these programs are cheap content to dull already dulled minds.I would think the same people watch,Please big brother get me out of here at the x factor live auditions.
Sorry will have to stop rambling on as I am watching a replay of strictly come dancing.Bye.

[Alan]

Olliebeak, on 16 December 2011 - 10:04 PM, said:

For anybody who's never seen Fanny Cradock - you've just got to watch some of these!

I never appreciated the eroticism in her programmes before. I was just a naive young man

[HORT]

I remember watching the Fanny and Johnny Craddock programmes.

I also recall one week when she was supposed to be cooking doughnuts. The week before she had told us that Johnny Craddock praised her doughnuts as the best in the world. Everone was waiting for the recipe and cooking method.

When the program came on, Johnny Craddock appeared, apologised that his wife was ill and couldn't do the recipe. He then went through the recipe and cooking himself.

At the end of the show, he pulled the doughnuts out of the oven and showed them to the camera with the remark:

Follow this recipe and you too can have doughnuts like Fanny's.

[leschip]

Hort, funny funny Mind you they lived over the brush and never married.