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1. Author: buffy Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 17:13 Best served cold First Gregg Wallace now his partner in crime: ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Post Edited (Tue 15 Jul 17:14) Reply
2. Author: red-star-par Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 18:08 When I heard Torode had been sacked too I was half expecting that MasterChef had taken a spitroast to a new level. Turns out he`s used a racial term in a conversation with someone who wasn`t offended, which wasn`t at work, 6 years ago. John Torode is Australian Reply
3. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 18:53 red-star-par, Tue 15 Jul 18:08 When I heard Torode had been sacked too I was half expecting that MasterChef had taken a spitroast to a new level. Turns out he`s used a racial term in a conversation with someone who wasn`t offended, which wasn`t at work, 6 years ago. John Torode is Australian What has being Australian got to do with it? The term doesn`t seem to have been publicised but a one-off doesn`t feel like a sackable offence. Reply
4. Author: veteraneastender Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 19:39 With the BBC’s track record of failure to root out celebrity liabilities it’s now left with little leeway but to take action where such evidence exists. The days of racial slurs are long gone, Alf Garnett is no longer acceptable. Reply
5. Author: red-star-par Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 19:46 jake89, Tue 15 Jul 18:53 red-star-par, Tue 15 Jul 18:08 When I heard Torode had been sacked too I was half expecting that MasterChef had taken a spitroast to a new level. Turns out he`s used a racial term in a conversation with someone who wasn`t offended, which wasn`t at work, 6 years ago. John Torode is Australian What has being Australian got to do with it? The term doesn`t seem to have been publicised but a one-off doesn`t feel like a sackable offence. Have you ever met an Australian? In my experience they do like a bit racial language Reply
6. Author: Berry Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 19:59 Racism is still rife in Australia in the outback. Doesn’t make it right ofcourse. Think BBC are having to be seen to act swiftly and defiantly with any line crossed after the Gregg Wallace stuff. Reply
7. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 15th Jul 2025. 21:37 If he used a term like "wog" then that`s a term that is openly used in Australia and isn`t considered any different to saying Paddy, Jock or Taff despite being pretty offensive here. My experience in Australia was they didn`t so much use offensive terms but used offensive language to describe people. So a person wasn`t Asian, they were a "f##king Asian", for example. Reply
8. Author: OzPar Date: Wed 16th Jul 2025. 04:07 You f##king racist Poms! :) Reply
9. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 16th Jul 2025. 11:34 OzPar, Wed 16 Jul 04:07 You f##king racist Poms! :) Rack off yar flamin` gallah! Reply
10. Author: Bandy Date: Thu 17th Jul 2025. 15:06 Have you ever met an Australian? In my experience they do like a bit racial language The irony in this post is utterly delicious. Reply
11. Author: Bletchley_Par Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 00:05 Spade. He used the word spade as in what he would require to eat a large dish he had been presented with. Reply
12. Author: jake89 Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 09:42 Bletchley_Par, Fri 18 Jul 00:05 Spade. He used the word spade as in what he would require to eat a large dish he had been presented with. Seriously?! Most people wouldn`t even know the racial connotations of that without it being explained. I regularly still hear "calls a spade a spade" being innocently used despite it now being considered racist. Reply
13. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 13:07 jake89, Fri 18 Jul 09:42 Bletchley_Par, Fri 18 Jul 00:05 Spade. He used the word spade as in what he would require to eat a large dish he had been presented with. Seriously?! Most people wouldn`t even know the racial connotations of that without it being explained. I regularly still hear "calls a spade a spade" being innocently used despite it now being considered racist. Sounds a lot like the Clarkson in Cambodia issue of using the word “slant” about the bridge/people crossing it. Would never have noticed the potential racism as never knew that was a term. Reply
14. Author: Bandy Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 14:40 Dave_1885, Fri 18 Jul 13:07 jake89, Fri 18 Jul 09:42 Bletchley_Par, Fri 18 Jul 00:05 Spade. He used the word spade as in what he would require to eat a large dish he had been presented with. Seriously?! Most people wouldn`t even know the racial connotations of that without it being explained. I regularly still hear "calls a spade a spade" being innocently used despite it now being considered racist. Sounds a lot like the Clarkson in Cambodia issue of using the word “slant” about the bridge/people crossing it. Would never have noticed the potential racism as never knew that was a term. It was `slope`. And even if you didn`t know about it, Clarkson did. Reply
15. Author: red-star-par Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 16:43 I used to occasionally say the phrase "play the white man" a couple of decades ago, as my dad and brother, seemed to use it all the time, as a way of saying "play fair". Never even thought about what it meant until I saw an episode of Coronation Street where Steve McDonald used the phrase in front of his good buddy Lloyd, played by Craig Charles, and he took umbrage and explained why. Fortunately, I had never used it in front of anyone that may have taken offence. Never used it since Reply
16. Author: P Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 17:11 Have not seen any reference to spade as stated above, everything I have seen has stated he used the N word in relation to Kanye Wests song Gold Digger Reply
17. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Fri 18th Jul 2025. 17:19 Bandy, Fri 18 Jul 14:40 Dave_1885, Fri 18 Jul 13:07 jake89, Fri 18 Jul 09:42 Bletchley_Par, Fri 18 Jul 00:05 Spade. He used the word spade as in what he would require to eat a large dish he had been presented with. Seriously?! Most people wouldn`t even know the racial connotations of that without it being explained. I regularly still hear "calls a spade a spade" being innocently used despite it now being considered racist. Sounds a lot like the Clarkson in Cambodia issue of using the word “slant” about the bridge/people crossing it. Would never have noticed the potential racism as never knew that was a term. It was `slope`. And even if you didn`t know about it, Clarkson did. That was it, sorry. I agree, he most likely did know the sly connotations behind using the word. Reply

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