If I see another restaurant makeover show I will go on a hunger strike

So tonight was the Restaurant: Impossible premiere (although it's been airing in the US since January) and I have one word: yawn. The trend is half-baked and overdone. The British are coming! The British are coming!

I admit that I have had my months of Gordon Ramsay addiction issues, even enrolling in GRA (Gordon Ramsay Anonymous, something totally made up). He's like the guy who doesn't pat you on the back to find the best place to stick the knife, he stabs you first then goes out looking for a paramedic.

I get that entertainment is everyone's main priority and it gets the ratings and blah blah. Hell's Kitchen was fun, although he was too much of a prick at times. Then there's Kitchen Nightmares, basically a documentary on the atrocity that is British food.

Then Heston Blumenthal, the executive chef at Fat Duck in England, and my bald soulmate, took on Little Chef's menu (like revamping the British Smitty's).

Then Jamie Oliver started making over the British school system by revamping cafeterias (which is a fine thing to do, but who's going to trust that a millionaire is working in the country's best interests?)

Now Robert Irvine, our Canadian muscley friend from Dinner: Impossible, who is also British, is making restaurants over. We already have a slough of makeover shows plus the British ones, such as David Adjey's the Opener and Restaurant Makeover. Why not add another one for good measure?

The ultimate irony is that the problem with society isn't that there are too many bad restaurants; the problem is that there's too MANY restaurants. So instead of teaching us how to cook, you've replaced hours of valuable training time on the Food Network with gourmet chefs entering rookie territory.

If you want obesity rates to go down, quit replacing cooking shows with shows that showcase the industry. 80% of restaurants fail in the first 3 years of opening. Why? Because people rely on chains that make things 40% more fattening than if you had cooked it. Educate us on chains then, not some poor bastards trying to make a business out of something that wasn't their destiny to begin with.

I get that food is a necessity and that having lazy, untrained and uneducated locals in charge of your health is a nightmare in itself, because people put a certain blind faith into food that they don't into many other things. It's nice that Michelin star chefs want to pass along their success, but only 1-2% of chefs are at that level. Something that should be easy and fair trade and organic and local in theory (because they seem to think everyone has access to the freshest produce and proteins in the world at 4 am because they do) turns into a viscious expense for people who just aren't trained, educated or have the resources. French fries require little brain power and are cheap and reliable.

British invaders, I love you but start cooking again instead of showing off. It would be much more cheritable to drive the idea home that people should cook through cooking shows than to drive us to a revamped restaurant.