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I HATE FOODIES!

- D Woodstock, London

Yeah we're all gonna be fat pigs if we carry on eating this rubbish.......

Ooops, too late!

- Peepsy, Fat England

I am amazed at the pious nature of some people here. "I work for 23 hours of the day but I get home and cook a meal from scratch using stuff from my garden and my farm animals. Don't lecture me about what to eat. I will make my own decisions.

Every once in a while I order a vegetarian pizza to be delivered. I like it. It's not greasy, but I am under no illusion that it is not good for me. So what?

- Tyler Durden, Milan

I leave home at 7:45am and get back in at 7:15pm, I then cook something like a spaghetti, arabiatta, stir fry, tacos, enchiladas, etc, all from scratch and all eaten by 8:00pm. Very occasionally I eat takeaway pizza but I won't order from the dross chains, I have a local one with a wood burning oven using fresh ingredients like parma ham and wild mushrooms but it's more likely I make my own pizza. However, due to the dough taking an hour to rise before I can even start to make it, so it's more of a weekend dish. Sounds like Mr Zilli is simply trying to get himself in the press to get some free advertising for his overrated restaurants.

- Bob, Cheam

I work 16 - 18 hours a day. From 8am to at least midnight. So cooking is a no-go for me and Domino's every day is the answer. If some other place can offer decent food at the right price then I will also go for it.

- Ed, London

C'mon, Zilli is a PR default option. "Oh dear, a company is doing too well, what should the ES do? I know, let's get some celeb "TOP" ! chef passing off as an Italian to give an expert "let's put them in their place" opinion. Sorry ES. Seen it before. Boring. Once again you're out of touch, Italian pizzas (just one of the many pizza varieties) don't travel well. Try ordering from an Italian pizzaria - three hours later you're delighted to get a stone cold rocket and parma 'speziale'. Wafer thin just like Italian pizzas should be but.errrr.......cold as a frogs wotsits. Woo-hoo! £20! Gimme more, I'm lovin this!
Wanna great pizza in under 30 minutes? Who ya gonna call? (Not Aldino.....and has ES done an investigation on the calorie count of HIS menu?!!!!!). Credo que no way. Ciao!

- Paul K, Oxford

Ken has a good point. Question:- who feels like starting to cook after a 12 hour working day, 5 or 6 days a week?

- Cally, London

If people want to eat stodge then let them, isn't that what happens in a free society? What makes me irritable is people condemning everything and Mr.Zili's restaurant when you phone for a booking! Give it a go. You've never spent so much money to be condescended to.

- Mark, London

I feel very ill, anxious, and depressed but I eat healthily.

Could certain chefs be trying to promote the sales of their own brand products (which are probably equally unhealthy and 4 times more expensive) and encouraging eating out in restarants during this time of extreme recession perchance?

- Real, London

I think the boxes taste nicer than the Dominoes Pizza, next time try it you might be surprised.

- Brian, Wiltshire

I amazed that people find it too hard to buy a healthier, better tasting and far cheaper pizza from a supermarket and put it in the oven. Not exactly hard to cook.

Maybe they are too fat and lazy from their overindulgence in takeaways to waddle down to the supermarket.

- Tom, Watford (UK)

I'm with Stuart and Jock. My wife and I work 12 hours a day and get home at about 8 to 8.30pm most nights. It takes less than half an hour to cook a great-tasting, inexpensive meal from scratch. A pizza would take 10 minutes. Most nights, a meal costs us less than a four quid for both of us. And it's a relaxing and satisfying thing to do. Get with the programme. If you're hit by the recession - and who isn't? - start cooking and stop moaning.

- Ken, Brighton, East Sussex

We decided to try Dominos last night. I set up an account on line and a text order. Two medium pizzas came to £28, no "specials" appeared on offer and no discount for two given. I'll given them some credit, at least it arrived very quickly - mind you, it was Tuesday night. As to taste, it was a bit cardboardy but the one with more meat (i.e. liquid fat) tasted quite nice. Wish we'd gone up the Lauriston (Victoria Park) for their £8 pizzas instead, would have tasted much better.

- Rachelle, London

Zilli needs to wake and realise that people suffering in this crisis can no longer have the luxury of choice and pay his ridiculous prices!!

- Paolo, London

When I started working life (not too long ago by the way) and had to look after the penny. I happily managed to live on easy to make veggie based dinners such as stir frys and stews. They are nice, didn't break the bank and I was able to save enough to go out every now and then as a treat to a nice restaurant.
Couldn't have afforded the overpriced pizza delivery chains and take aways... Always wondered, how do people on limited income do that??

- Iris, Kent

This has nothing to do with laze and hours worked in my opinion. I think its because people are going out less and certainly less to restaurants. I haven't been to the pub this year, haven't been to a restaurant this year and yet I have sat at home on a Saturday night and ordered a pizza.
Thats £15 for some fun food without the associated expense of going out for the night. I have sky movies too as its cheaper than the cinema which I have also cut out now.
Do I now need to write in that I work 12 hour days etc etc etc? No I don't so get a grip people - nobody cares if you have a pants job.

- Richard Smith, London

The fast food sales have only increased probably because people are ordering a take out instead of going out for a meal like they might have done when they felt they had more money to burn. If they're irritable it's because they're not able to enjoy the restaurant experience so much!

- Isabel, Woking

I have conducted my own survey that found TV chefs constantly yammering on about our eating habits, particularly those chefs with fat tongues or who wear combat trousers to appear trendy, are very dull and tiresome and should get back in the kitchen and shut up.

- Squiz, islington

Er Kevin, I work long hours, leave at 7am return at 7:30pm and I manage cook for myself. it is called caring for yourself and not defaulting the blame on to others

- Stuart, UK

Kevin, you're exactly the type of person Aldo Zilli is talking about. Lazy.

It takes me all of 20-30 minutes to cook myself a proper dinner from scratch (and i work the same hours as you). Much better than having to wait an hour for a fat-sodden piece of dough topped with processed cheese, and other manufactured bits and bobs.

Cooking your own meal doesn't need to take hours, and the benefits far outweigh a takeaway pizza.

- Jock, London

Stop press - Too many foul-mouthed obnoxious so-called chefs on television creating a lazy, irritable nation.

- Keith Price, Luton, England

Sometimes, like right now, living in London feels like a surreal nightmare. My business is struggling. My savings have been decimated by the collapse of banks. Yet everywhere on TV and in newspapers there are chefs or would-be chefs telling me how to cook? Is it some zombie-like invasion of the capital or have they all recently become ubiquitous, just prior to swathes of restaurants disappearing in the credit crunch, while we all start again to troop down to the chipper?

- Mike, london

Ooops, guess what I just had for lunch? Yep, pizza - albeit home made.

- Marianne, SW France

I'd like to see Mr Zilli work stressful 12 hour days in an office and come home with enough energy to create one of his recipes from scratch. We are a lazy irritable nation because we work all the hours just to keep our jobs, get no thanks for it and then get told off for daring to relax in the evenings!

- Kevin, London

All very well to preach to others, when you are very wealthy.

Nothing worse than a preaching luvvie.

- P Staker, London

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