A Scots contestant has become the latest cake enthusiast to be booted off The Great British Bake Off.
08.10.2022 - 01:49 / variety.com
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Sombreros, serapes and maracas, horrible pronunciations, jokes about Mexican stand-offs, and really strange-looking tacos — did the “Mexican Week” episode of “The Great British Baking Show” leave any stereotypical stone unturned? After a similar debacle with Season 11’s “Japanese Week,” the internationally beloved competition series — which streams on Netflix in the U.S. — apparently decided not to learn from its mistakes, and dove headlong into Mexican food. And since the competition is largely to determine who can create the best baked goods, many observers wondered, why were they attempting tacos, anyway? Even before the episode dropped on Oct. 7, the promos featuring sombrero-wearing hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas came under fire from social media commenters — largely from the U.S., where finding a good taco is not as difficult as in the U.K. — who were quick to weigh in on the show’s utter failure to try to understand more than the most obvious characteristics of Mexican food and culture. Even the English-language plural of the word cactus eluded one of the contestants — not to mention the woman whose absolutely wretched try at guacamole sounded more like “glakeemolo.”
“It’s not hard to learn to pronounce words correctly, even for a living muppet of a host,” wrote José Ralat, the Taco Editor of Texas Monthly magazine. It's not hard to learn to pronounce words correctly, even for a living muppet of a host. #GBBO https://t.co/mhFf7DipQP “Tacos, new one on me,” says one contestant, as they are given the assignment for the technical challenge of making tortillas from canned “yellow field corn” and adding steak, spicy refried beans, guacamole and pico de gallo to make some sort of
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The fourth episode of the current series of the Great British Bake Off saw the contestants take on Mexican Week for the first time ever.The remaining 10 bakers were tasked with creating a pan dulce, a street food staple and a show-stopping tres leches cake. While Maxy was named Star Baker after blowing judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith away with her creations, it was unfortunately time for another contestant to head home.
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