# The Naked Chef is what!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2002, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072 "2002-05-21T11:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@reoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reoch)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/1 "2002-05-21T11:43:00Z")
I was watching TV tonight and I caught an end of a commercial for the Naked Chef. But for some reason, they renamed the show, Oliver’s Twist…WHF!? I liked the name “Naked Chef” and I actually started watching thinking some girl’s gonna be nekkid :D…but then I got hooked to the program because that dude Oliver is so…British…I like the accent 😛 Just wanna know what’s up with dat!? Reoch ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/2 "2002-05-21T12:02:41Z")
It’s been through a couple of names. After Naked Chef, I know he did Pukka Tucka (or something like that) for a while. I think every season gets a new title. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/3 "2002-05-21T12:13:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \* > \*\*It’s been through a couple of names. After Naked Chef, I know he did Pukka Tucka (or something like that) for a while. I think every season gets a new title. \*\* Pukka Tukka (or whatever) only lasted like two or three episodes before it reverted back to The Naked Chef. And wasn’t there a fourth title somewhere in there: Jamie Oliver and Friends or something similar that only lasted one episode? Apparently some lame-brain at the Food Network doesn’t like the name Naked Chef and thinks it’s worth having rotating show titles (and losing name recognition as a result. ) Fenris ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/4 "2002-05-21T12:35:44Z")
You may be interested to know that here in Merrie |Olde Englande hating the coked-up mockney fool that is Jamie “gets his mates from a casting bureau” Oliver is a national obsesssion. For full details have a look at this (warning contains lots of potty-mouth words). [http://www.hairytongue.com/gallery/fattongue/](http://www.hairytongue.com/gallery/fattongue/) ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/5 "2002-05-21T15:16:44Z")
Merrie Olde Englanders are not the only ones who hate Mr. Slobbery Lips. The only thing that saves him in my eyes is that he was the Chef at Prudhomme’s so he must have been a Real Chef at some time. My friend loves his shows because she says the recipes are easy and don’t use a lot of weird, frou-frou ingredients. It looks like from the commercial that the new Oliver’s Twist will showcase even easier, simpler dishes, so it should go over well. I’m sure his recipes are very nice but I can’t get beyond his blubbery cockneyness and that awful MTV-all-over-the-place-zooming and panning camera technique. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/6 "2002-05-21T15:24:05Z")
I get dizzy watching the show, what with him flitting madly about slamming kitchen drawers and kicking the oven closed. That site is hysterical, when the rancorous odor wears off. I recall one episode where Jamie went to some outdoor market (don’t remember where; it’s been a while since I’ve been back to England) and engaged in the most ridiculous cockney accent with the grocer, who seemed to be kind of a good sport about it. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/7 "2002-05-21T15:41:42Z")
I hate his scuzzy-looking and tacky “Euro-trash” friends, I hate the phony-sounding “Ho, hit’s a jollie 'olidaie wiv ewe Mawy Poppins!” accent, but the man _can_ cook. His fociccia recipe is the _best_ I’ve ever made, bar none. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/8 "2002-05-21T20:04:12Z")
Feh! I’d much rather watch reruns of the Two Fat Ladies. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/9 "2002-05-22T16:15:11Z")
Regarding the new show, “Oliver’s Twist” . . . Do my eyes deceive me, or does that kitschy old fridge in his new set kitchen bear the logo “SMEG”? Brits, is there a brand of fridge in the UK called “SMEG”? ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/10 "2002-05-22T16:18:24Z")
Not just in britain – my oven’s a smeg. My sister and I kept giggling when we bought it, drove the salesman nuts 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/11 "2002-05-22T16:25:30Z")
> [@](#): > > **The Naked Chef is what!?** A wanker? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/12 "2002-05-22T16:29:58Z")
So…he doesn’t live there? But, but, but what about the retro video phone on the wall? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/13 "2002-05-22T16:39:46Z")
[It’s an Italian manufacturer.](http://www.smeg.it/) And Jamie Oliver is a mockney twat whose self-professed concern at being over-exposed hasn’t actually extended to reducing said over-exposure. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/14 "2002-05-22T20:11:22Z")
My British buddies say the “Naked” part is derived from the back-to-basics cooking approach, but I haven’t seen the darn show myself. They weren’t fond of his vibe, either. ---
**Author:** ![Funky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Funky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Funky)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/15 "2002-05-23T05:04:16Z")
I was watching an interview this guy did and apparantly the title came from his first series when asked what type of cooking style he will be doing he replied that it will be “raw & naked” and the media hooked on to it and the name stuck. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naked-chef-is-what/110072/16 "2002-05-23T05:21:46Z")
[hijack] [It’s an Italian manufacturer.](http://www.smeg.it/) www.smeg.it LOL [/hijack] FWIW, the woolly family have a SMEG’n oven as well.