Jamie Oliver's seemingly innocuous tweet has outraged a nation. Photo / Getty
Television chef Jamie Oliver has inadvertently angered hundreds of people - most of them Spanish - by posting a link to a unorthodox paella recipe on his Twitter account.
"Good Spanish food doesn't get much better than paella," the innocuous-seeming tweet read. "My version combines chicken thighs & chorizo."
It included a link to a web page hosting the full recipe.
The tweet prompted immediate outrage. Furious replies came thick and fast: "Come to Valencia to try the real paella and stop making 'rice with whatever'", wrote Spanish journalist Vicent Marco. "Your dish is everything but paella."
Other critics were less restrained. "Your paella is an abomination," wrote one. "An insult not only to our gastronomy but to our culture," said another. There were many, many more.
