Very much welcoming next week's technical from the preview which looks absolutely old school, and about time too. That was just awful tonight. Cook a steak? Piss off.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
I'm hearing some hilarious/horrible stuff about British Bake Off's Mexico Week (or whatever they called it).
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/10/05/GBBO_custom-0987632ffeea48eb4337fd9ff17264d193c310e2-s1200-c85.webp
The juan and only Matt & Noel welcome you to Mexico Week! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 #GBBO pic.twitter.com/A4aX43H5rd— British Bake Off (@BritishBakeOff) October 4, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
Peeling an avocadohttps://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/cJJYJ51fmaswMGF0e4JNdw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYzNztjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/a6tYnvCCHS8sa4hK8BP6Dw--~B/aD00MTg7dz02MzA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/huffpost_uk_744/e885ca7d001b5c8db0d4362fef2710c1
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
Of course, they've never done any other foreign food badly, or made inappropriate jokes. This is entirely new ground. Welcome to the thread.
― ailsa, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
Misunderstanding foreign food and stupid racism is not new to this show. It's just that America has noticed it. My major issue (other than a ton of people assuming we're all that woman who can't say guacamole) is that there was no baking involved in that stupid taco challenge.
― ailsa, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
oh i'm plenty aware that British people make terrible food and are racist, it's just that i never tire of pointing it out
― Murgatroid, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
Trust me, it's fucking embarrassing that this gets broadcast round the world and results in ridiculous generalisations being thrown straight back.
― ailsa, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
do British people also generally fall for the easiest trolljobs
― Murgatroid, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
This week excepted, I’m glad Matt has been a little more low-key this year – in fact at points it seems like he doesn’t want to be there at all
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 October 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
No, just me. I am not the whole of Britain. I can pronounce guacamole for a start.
― ailsa, Friday, 7 October 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
The thing I find embarrassing isn't so much the British home bakers trying to make these unfamiliar confections, it's the British (or South African) judges getting all expert about it when they haven't much more of a clue than the bakers. A couple of guest judges a season could take a lot of the sting out of it.
― trishyb, Friday, 7 October 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Yes, Masterchef suffers from this a lot too.
― ailsa, Saturday, 8 October 2022 06:20 (one year ago) link
Yeah I felt this when they did Japanese week a season or two ago
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 October 2022 06:22 (one year ago) link
Still can’t forgive the asshole who put white chocolate in his bagels about ten seasons ago
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 8 October 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
Very much the "what have I got hanging around the kitchen that I could stick in here?" school of baking, as practiced by my grandmother, bless her.
― trishyb, Saturday, 8 October 2022 11:33 (one year ago) link
My grandmother once made us "treacle toffee", except she skimped on the butter, so her grandchildren spent a happy afternoon running round the back garden menacing each other with shards of sticky glass. A GREAT DAY.
― trishyb, Saturday, 8 October 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
finally catching up on new season am i crazy or has Sandro been on a tv show before? i swear i’ve seen him beforealso i find him a little creepy idk why
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 October 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
also Carole looks like Thorgy Thor from drag race and i cannot unsee it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 October 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
loool my skelton has left my body watching the Mexican ep it reminds me 20+ years ago on his first visit to Australia we were at some terrible sports bar for melbourne cup day & mr veg overheard a drunk girl order a “QUESTALADILLA” and died laughing and this whole episode has been that moment x 10
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
why does sandro’s tres leches cake have a mustache on it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Zapata
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
look James seemed lovely but between the accent & the lisp i cannae understand a word ye said lol sorry dude rebs always seemed kind of doomed like a chaotic orchidalso those eyebrows lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
it reminds me 20+ years ago on his first visit to Australia we were at some terrible sports bar for melbourne cup day & mr veg overheard a drunk girl order a “QUESTALADILLA” and died laughing and this whole episode has been that moment x 10
On one of our visits to Sydney, Mexican food was suddenly very trendy. We went to the opening of a bar my brother in law had helped build on the harbor and my wife and I were shocked by the let's say culturally questionable depiction of Mexico and Mexicans. Lotsa fake mustaches, bandoleers and sombreros.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
look the only mexican restaurant i knew of for the first 20 years of my life was called TACO BILL this commercial is from 2012 to give you an idea of what we were working with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mwd0Q_mLQ= basically the vibe of this ep
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
My friend was in Norway a few weeks ago. Here's what she posted:
https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/298013585_10225775579271073_2016522644360085404_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s1080x2048&_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=rsp7AKm2xPAAX_mxwVa&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AT_TgWveCbCvQePlX1SI7oDsv1MEVpf95qI8Ml0mgeIWbQ&oe=6347B524
Norwegian tacos made by a Colombian woman. She asked if we knew what pico de gallo was.ETA for context: tacos are hugely popular here. "In Norway, 'fredagstaco' has become a cultural phenomenon. Fredagstaco was coined by the younger generation and translates to “Friday’s taco.” Tacofredag is another common name for it. As the week comes to a close, many Norwegians have tacos on their minds for Friday night dinner."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 October 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
cool!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
the worst thing with this ep was how everyone kept saying "taco" to refer to just the tortilla. "that's a well-baked taco, that is." also the many references to "tres leche" even when the terminal S was written out on the screen!
guest judges is a great idea, trishyb!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 October 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
rebs always seemed kind of doomed like a chaotic orchidalso those eyebrows lol
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 10 October 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 October 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
It is a bit shit that nobody would stop and show Thorgy how to use the boiling water tap properly.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 06:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/dining/great-british-bake-off-mexican-week.html
But over its 12 years on the air, the worst thing imaginable on Bake Off has gotten worse, again and again. Last week, the hosts, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas, strolled up a grassy slope dressed in fringed serapes and straw sombreros to introduce “Mexican Week” with tired puns, saying they shouldn’t make “Mexican jokes” but proceeding to do just that. The show had hit rock bottom, revealing what it had managed to obscure in the past with a bit of charm.The “Bake Off” clips were shared incredulously and angrily on Twitter, days before the episode even aired. The phrase “Mexican Week” quickly became shorthand for profound culinary blunder, presented with a sense of naïve triumph. An image of a cursed avocado, lopped away with a knife, became the episode’s unofficial mascot, as if a home cook unfamiliar with peeling an avocado should feel humiliated.To me, it felt more like the episode had betrayed its own contestants, as well as its audience, with a lack of expertise among judges, and a lack of curiosity among hosts. Paul Hollywood explaining steak tacos with pico de gallo and refried beans to Prue Leith would be howlingly funny, if he weren’t positioned as an expert.It was even worse than the clips implied — an hour of incompetent exposition, farcical bumbling and maracas-shaking. A distraction for an increasingly insular, self-referential show that’s run out of energy and expertise, and refuses to find it elsewhere.
The “Bake Off” clips were shared incredulously and angrily on Twitter, days before the episode even aired. The phrase “Mexican Week” quickly became shorthand for profound culinary blunder, presented with a sense of naïve triumph. An image of a cursed avocado, lopped away with a knife, became the episode’s unofficial mascot, as if a home cook unfamiliar with peeling an avocado should feel humiliated.
To me, it felt more like the episode had betrayed its own contestants, as well as its audience, with a lack of expertise among judges, and a lack of curiosity among hosts. Paul Hollywood explaining steak tacos with pico de gallo and refried beans to Prue Leith would be howlingly funny, if he weren’t positioned as an expert.
It was even worse than the clips implied — an hour of incompetent exposition, farcical bumbling and maracas-shaking. A distraction for an increasingly insular, self-referential show that’s run out of energy and expertise, and refuses to find it elsewhere.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
i think this is perceptive. i don't agree w/ the following paragraph tho
― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 October 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
I don't understand the "lack of curiosity" bit. Does this writer honestly think that the presenters and judges on Bake Off have never eaten Mexican food? Do they not understand that on television people often explain things to each other for the benefit of the audience?
― trishyb, Friday, 14 October 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
From the perspective of a person who could be in Mexico in 15 minutes if the traffic is right: They all mostly did a slapdash, half-assed job at making Mexican food, and just laughed it off like: "eh, it's just Mexico...". It's not like its some exotic cuisine either. Maybe it's different in the UK? I mean, I'd struggle to make a steamed pudding or something like that, but I wouldn't really laugh it off.
― sous les paves, Thursday, 20 October 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
custard week & the technical is fkn icecream cones? and please how is a mille fielle a cake? this is some is a hotdog a sandwich nonsense & i think this show is trying to turn me into annie wilkes HAVE YOU ALL GOT AMNESIA!? HE DIDNT GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODIE CARmeanwhile shabira is perfect and i want to eat that pinacolada cake so bad! how did she even make those flower decorations!?!?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 October 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
*syabira
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 October 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah her cake looked INCREDIBLE, surely the most nommable thing that's appeared on screen this season.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 29 October 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
did someone say they'd never had a vol au vent?
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Abdul. And then they all did that comical thing of "lol foreign words" like vol-au-vent was in fucking Klingon or something, before making spring rolls which is Not Baking. Then the technical of "can you make a pie? Well, make loads of them in one tiny oven then we'll sneer at you for the purposes of telly".
This series is a disaster. Crown Syabira queen of everything, lock the tent doors, and pretend this never happened. Then get back to the old days when at least one of the presenters was kind, the judges showed you how the technical things were made to show it could actually be done, and there was some educational and cultural explanation of the things you were making rather than this bollocks of picking a country and finding a random bit of its cuisine that can go in an oven and going "will this do?"
― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
^nail this to the door of whoever makes this
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:32 (one year ago) link
I don't mind them making things in a fryer on a baking show, but totally agree with the rest of your point. If every single one of your quarter finalists is failing at a task, then that's the task's fault. And you haven't cast the show very well if your quarter finalists include at least one of person who doesn't know the name of the pastry that he's making, and nobody has ever seen mange tout before! The kids they get on Junior Bake Off have broader knowledge and skill than some of these guys. Ditch this show and just do Junior Bake Off from now on (with the rules ILE agreed on last year, where nobody gets eliminated and there's just a winner at the end).
― trishyb, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
For all Pru went on about water bubbles in the spring rolls, hers looked worse than some she criticised. Also I am not sure how many spring rolls I have eaten in my life with bubbles like hers.
Syabira has been getting a free ride through previous rounds imo, she should have gone last week for her ice cream soup and being second worst in the first challenge and only survived this week because of Maxy's meltdown(s).
I can't think of anyone this year I think is actually good. And I'm still annoyed about Sandro not being vetted properly.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
What do you mean, not vetted properly??!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
previous professional experience, i heard.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
hers looked worse than some
I didn't realize until recently that people think the example ones are made by the judges.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah he used to do it professionally, made birthday cakes for (at least) Stormzy and Perrie Edwards for real Instagram influencer attention. Not allowed according to the rules. He claims it's just what his IG account was called but there was a company registered at Companies House.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link