The BBC issued an apology after Len Goodman recalled his grandmother describing curry powder as “foreign muck”, during its coverage of the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations.
Pulling a face, he added: “I’ve never had curry and curry powder, you know, my nan used to call it all ‘foreign muck’.
Another person wrote: “Petition to get the BBC and Len Goodman to apologise for his choice of words calling Coronation Chicken “foreign muck” in the words of his nan, apparently.
Writer and political commentator Adam Schwarz wrote: “A dollop of old fashioned British Empire xenophobia from Len Goodman on the BBC’s jubilee coverage.”