Edwardian Supersize Me - Part 1

The one off show aired originally on the 16th April 2007 on BBC Four that led to series 'The Supersizers Go/Eat'

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[lolastarsandstripes]

giles is actually one quite handsome man...

[nickersonpower]

Giles is yummy in his Edwardian attire.

[ZimmermanHound]

@cathavenfostermom1 As you point out, it is the same today, but the terrible working conditions has just moved to India and China instead. In the same time, there jobs is jobs that could had stayed in UK.

[cathavenfostermom1]

@ZimmermanHound, that is sad but true, but still, back then if a laboror died on the job from the horrid conditions, nobody cared. Then again, it is all replaced by the third world worker, and most people don't want to hear about it. So really the desperately poor are still exploited, it's only in places we can't see them now, like sweat shops in India. How sad.

[ZimmermanHound]

@cathavenfostermom1 In fact, I think people was more well-off under the Edwardian days then today. Sure, people have more material stuff, but that is all. We have lost the idea communtarian solidarity. Yes, the poor died from diseases but atleast they were not bound by materialism and corrupt politicans that saw them as material for their factors. The skilled worker existed and now he is about to be replaced by the third world worker.

[cathavenfostermom1]

@ZimmermanHound, I'm sorry, I must have mis-read your comment, but for a moment there I thought you had said that it's okay to exploit the poor and laborors and that people who are less well off financially should just die. I'm sure that's not what you meant at all, it only came across to me that you think people who are suffering or exploited should be allowed to suffer and die because they can't offer you anything except the opportunity to do a good deed and have some compassion for humanity.

[kingofcouture1996]

I love how this series doesnt just focus on what they ate but how they lived aswell.

[eyasohma]

giles is quite handsome... but then he starts talking and eatting. id rather throw a towel over his head; he is really gross....

[donnad9999]

If by 'handsome' you mean rude, crude and rather annoying. How can one who is a critic of food not know how to cook the stuff?!

[MrAngelo1425]

the woman is picky, she is annoying

[ZimmermanHound]

@cathavenfostermom1 The good thing with the Edwardian era was that the poor and other the burden the society died in diseases. The working class knew their place and unions was illegal.Today it is a different society and their is no separation among classes. Today people do not know their class and were they belong. We even have democracy, labor unions and socialism. Our society could profit on some old fashioned Edwardian feudalism.

[cathavenfostermom1]

@katyggls, you're right, I wish people would take that into account. And what you just said doesn't even include the high percentage of women who died during childbirth. We actually aren't living longer, it's just that less of us are dying prematurely. Great observation, I hate that 'living longer', arguement. Now there is the fact that the wealthy at the time were the one's who could afford to eat unhealthy, and now it's the opposite, but that's just society.