Mr Rayner ...... Options

[admin]

NEWBURY is dull.
In fact, it is “very, very dull.”
Who says so? National newspaper food critic and author Jay Rayner says so, in an online blog for The Guardian.
In an unusual analogy, Mr Rayner insists: “Emmental is, at first sight, the Newbury of cheeses: it's solid, workmanlike, but very, very dull. Everybody knows it's there but few think they have any reason to visit..... just as the boring town in Berkshire is a place of light industry and mid-range technology firms - the sort of place where really hard unglamorous work gets done - so emmental is the workhorse of the cheese world.”
As if already hearing the knives being sharpened for him, Mr Rayner ameliorates his comments by adding: “It is upon emmental's broad, solid and unassuming shoulders that the sexy supermodels of the cheese world – the gruyères, Comtés and Beaufort – stand.”
Newburytoday.co.uk contacted Mr Rayner via his Twitter account for a chat.
He replied: “Would you mind awfully if I don't?”
Actually, we do. A little. But what do you think? Does he have a point?
And if Mr Rayner was to be compared to a cheese, which one would he be?
We have one in mind. But what do you think?

[spartacus]

Jay Rayner, meanwhile, is the spoilt, snooty, self important, never had a real job kind of non entity whose opinions can be safely ignored.

Get off the fence Stewie, you'll get splinters.....


I'd never heard of Rayner either..... perhaps he's been to that other 'celeb chef' Pierre-White's place at Highclere and there's a touch of 'dissing the opposition'?

(Although Marco Pierre-White isn't exactly someone I'd like to share a dinner table with.......)

As for "What cheese would Mr Rayner be compared to?" Bell End?

[stewiegriffin]

Get off the fence Stewie, you'll get splinters.....


I'd never heard of Rayner either..... perhaps he's been to that other 'celeb chef' Pierre-White's place at Highclere and there's a touch of 'dissing the opposition'?

(Although Marco Pierre-White isn't exactly someone I'd like to share a dinner table with.......)

As for "What cheese would Mr Rayner be compared to?" Bell End?

Jay Rayner isn't even a chef. Just an opinion machine food critic. I think he inherited his 'the world must listen to me' attitude from his bothersome mother, the agony aunt Claire Rayner. I'm sure he lives somewhere far more exciting than Newbury.

I've always been very fond of our little town though. Despite the traffic and eye watering house prices it has a lot going for it. Having not been back here very long, I'm enjoying reaquainting myself with all the places I used to know and the local events I haven't been to in years.

The RCOB show was fun and had quite a few 'foodie' things going on. Luckily Jay Rayner was not present.

He really ought to pay Newbury a visit and review the Empire Cafe. I had a lovely pot of tea and a donut in there the other day. I love that place. It refuses to move with the times. Looks exactly as it did when I used to go in there as a teenager. It really ought to be awarded national monument status.