Great British Bake Off 2018 [** Spoilers **]

borderlinemeath

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

She could have been reading the Hindustan telephone directory for all we knew!


But if that translation was accurate, you can kinda see where Rahul might have got his personality from.....





That was so mortifyingly obvious, can't believe they let it through like that! He wasn't THAT bad in the series, but maybe more went on behind the scenes that we didn't get to hear about?

Jon didn't meet up with anybody either, and he was everyones friend;). Maybe it was a distance issue, maybe he had nobody to take care of his kids, who knows? Did anybody see Terry at the final?

LushiousLips

borderlinemeath wrote: »

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Jon didn't meet up with anybody either, and he was everyones friend;). Maybe it was a distance issue, maybe he had nobody to take care of his kids, who knows? Did anybody see Terry at the final?

I thought I saw John and I saw Terry too

HeidiHeidi

Oh, and I've just remembered - what was with the fly crawling all over KimJoy's fondant bees (getting jiggy?) :eek: :eek:



Not the slightest tweak or effort from anyone to swat it away, or cover food just lying there.


I'm assuming (well, I hope anyway) that she didn't actually use that one on her doughnuts, but what a bizarre thing to include in the final edit :rolleyes:

AndrewJRenko

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Also, Rahul’s mother seems like a right dose. Note how she didn’t congratulate him personally, just blabbered on about God and how her prayers got him the win. I don’t know, maybe there was skilful editing there and she say nicer things that didn’t make the cut.

Sounded like a fairly typical Irish Mammy response, albeit from a different continent.

Uncharted

As an aside,Kim Joy looks like the love child of a frog and Timmy Mallett.

skearnsot

Uncharted wrote: »

As an aside,Kim Joy looks like the love child of a frog and Timmy Mallett.

OMG Lofl - sickened Rahul won it - wasn’t a fan of Ruby either but she was the best Over the past few weeks - methinks it had to be given to him or he would seriously have had a flitther fit

Tar.Aldarion

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

I wasn't overly enthused myself, but unfortunately vegan baking is now a thing

Definitely a thing, I'd say it will be back and hopefully they'll make a better job of it when it is more mainstream. You'll notice loads of hotels in Dublin starting to offer vegan afternoon tea, I just had one at the Shelbourne and was in a fully vegan french patisserie restaurant in London recently.

razorblunt

An awful final, all things considered.

I'm not fan of Rahul but he was the best of that lot, but it was a serious let down.
Something must have gone wrong behind the scenes that forced them outdoors as that challenge was poor filler.
If they're going to set tasks like that (and that glazed chocolate cake in the semi) then I want to see 5 mins of Prue and Paul attempting it.

The showstoppers were appalling, it didn't look appetizing at all. Kim Joy had what looked like a plain gingerbread wall with "Atlantis" scrawled on.

Whatever happened to letting the bakers shine instead of "lol they're falling apart".
Another series of that and C4 are in trouble.


On a related note I watched a re-run of some series (maybe series 5) and they spent 5-10 mins showing Mary baking the cake for the challenge and talking about pitfalls and how they're avoided, it then cuts back to the contestants hitting those falls. Simplistically brilliant tv.

I hope Ruby does well out of this, haven't seen a naturally likeable person like that since Nadia won.

will56

razorblunt wrote: »

An awful final, all things considered.

I hope Ruby does well out of this, haven't seen a naturally likeable person like that since Nadia won.

She has launched her website and has been very active on SM building a following throughout the show.

iamwhoiam

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Sounded like a fairly typical Irish Mammy response, albeit from a different continent.

Not the mammys i know .

Krombopulos Michael

razorblunt wrote: »

On a related note I watched a re-run of some series (maybe series 5) and they spent 5-10 mins showing Mary baking the cake for the challenge and talking about pitfalls and how they're avoided, it then cuts back to the contestants hitting those falls. Simplistically brilliant tv.

The BBC ran GBBO Masterclass. It was where Paul and Mary would make some of the bakes from the past show and how they would do it. Very interesting seeing how they approached it.

borderlinemeath

LushiousLips wrote: »

I thought I saw John and I saw Terry too

Jon was there at the garden party. I didn't see Terry though. I'm talking about the end credits where they showed everybody meeting up. Ruby, Manon and Anthony hang out and Imelda has been over to visit. Briony meeting up with Terry, and Karen, Rahul, Kimjoy and Luke having dinner parties. Then it cut to Dan, home alone with his daughter, and Jon with his family. This is where posters are referring to Dan as being "not part of the gang" and I pointed out that Jon hadn't been pictured meeting up with anyone either.:)

AndrewJRenko

Uncharted wrote: »

As an aside,Kim Joy looks like the love child of a frog and Timmy Mallett.

That's a fairly nasty comment.

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Not the mammys i know .

I wonder if we're of different generations? I'm referring to the stereotypical Irish Mammy of the 60s and 70s - this kind of mammy; https://twitter.com/irishmammies

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Nope. When they showed the bit at the end about everyone meeting up with each other, no one had met up with Dan!

miamee wrote: »

I noticed that as well! Was he really that bad? I know he seemed a bit of a drama llama when things didn't go well for him a couple of times but other than that he came across ok, I thought.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

That was so mortifyingly obvious, can't believe they let it through like that! He wasn't THAT bad in the series, but maybe more went on behind the scenes that we didn't get to hear about?

In fairness, they didn’t show Jon meeting up with anyone either!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Sounded like a fairly typical Irish Mammy response, albeit from a different continent.

Not any Irish mammy I know! Like, if I was in a competition my folks would say a prayer but if I won, they’d say “well done, YOU”, not God.

Uncharted

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

That's a fairly nasty comment.

I do try :rolleyes:

iamwhoiam

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

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I wonder if we're of different generations? I'm referring to the stereotypical Irish Mammy of the 60s and 70s - this kind of mammy; https://twitter.com/irishmammies

I think I am probably older than you and know mammies from the 50's 60's and 70's who were supportive and would praise where praise was needed

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Definitely a thing, I'd say it will be back and hopefully they'll make a better job of it when it is more mainstream. You'll notice loads of hotels in Dublin starting to offer vegan afternoon tea, I just had one at the Shelbourne and was in a fully vegan french patisserie restaurant in London recently.

I just don’t know, Paul was really unimpressed by the whole thing. :pac: But it might not just be down to him.

Tar.Aldarion

You could really tell he didn't want to give out a handshake

greenspurs

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Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

greenspurs wrote: »

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Ruby wins, I think!

Mr. CooL ICE

"Rahul, describe yourself with one word"

"Depressing"

greenspurs

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Ruby wins, I think!

Hmmmm... beautiful face alright, but Manon with her French accent

RhubarbCrumble

I have to say Ruby has great eyebrows.

siblers

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Oh, and I've just remembered - what was with the fly crawling all over KimJoy's fondant bees (getting jiggy?) :eek: :eek:



Not the slightest tweak or effort from anyone to swat it away, or cover food just lying there.


I'm assuming (well, I hope anyway) that she didn't actually use that one on her doughnuts, but what a bizarre thing to include in the final edit :rolleyes:

What wass bizzare about it

Cockadoodledoo

Just watched it tonight. The showstoppers were so dull and boring.

HeidiHeidi

siblers wrote: »

What wass bizzare about it

Flies being just about the most unhygienic thing there is near food, to film one crawling all over a decoration that's to be fed to judges in the next hour, and not even blink, to me is bizarre.



Maybe I'm an outlier on that, though.


If they had to film it (I'd have happily lived without seeing that particular footage), I'd have at least expected to see KimJoy bin that bee, or say that she wouldn't use it, or at least trying to swat the bloody thing off, not oohing and aahing over it.

iamwhoiam

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Flies being just about the most unhygienic thing there is near food, to film one crawling all over a decoration that's to be fed to judges in the next hour, and not even blink, to me is bizarre.



Maybe I'm an outlier on that, though.


If they had to film it (I'd have happily lived without seeing that particular footage), I'd have at least expected to see KimJoy bin that bee, or say that she wouldn't use it, or at least trying to swat the bloody thing off, not oohing and aahing over it.

In fairness a bee is not a fly ! I wouldn't stress half as much over a bee on food

dee_mc

I thought it was a wasp that landed on KimJoy's bee?
Wasps are fairly clean compared to flies

Cockadoodledoo

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