The Great Baked Alaska Swindle

[Brighton TID]

Beardy, his ice cream melted. Old lady/grandmother figure implicated in removing Beardy's baked Alaska from freezer. Beardy cops massive strop like a girl and bins, yes BINS the cake.

Hollywood not happy.
Berry not impressed.
Nation simmering over apparent under hand tactics.

Messy.

 

[Lawro's Lip]

Storm in a tea cup.

 

[gregbrighton]

Thousands of children are being sexually and physically abused up and down this country and people are worried about a Baked Alaska being left out on TV....

 

[Goldstone1976]

Thousands of children are being sexually and physically abused up and down this country and people are worried about a Baked Alaska being left out on TV....

It's because they can relate to the baked Alaska incident, whereas they think that child sex abuse has passed them by - they can't possibly know anyone who it's happened to; even though it's statistically likely that they do know someone.

On GBBO - Diana's innocent. Beardy just had a strop.

 

[Triggaaar]

Storm in a tea cup.

Is that what they're making tonight?

 

[Guinness Boy]

I quite like the TV cookery programs.

GBBO on the other hand is a vile, smug, middle class abortion of a program not unlike the local W.I. webcamming a jam making contest. It can f*** off somewhere really far away and then f*** off again when it gets there.

 

[brightn'ove]

Thousands of children are being sexually and physically abused up and down this country and people are worried about a Baked Alaska being left out on TV....

And all we care about on here is the Albion.... Your point?

 

[Brighton TID]

Thousands of children are being sexually and physically abused up and down this country and people are worried about a Baked Alaska being left out on TV....

OK, whimsical thread closed. Goodbye.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I quite like the TV cookery programs.
.

I do, as I also love cooking (and eating).

I find for me there are two types of cookery program, ones that I watch to learn for stuff I might want to cook or ones
I watch just as they're interesting but stuff I'd never try and cook. In the first category there's things like Rick Stein gor maybe Whitingstall, and in the second category stuff like Peter Keruvita - there's little in those programs I'd cook but they're quite interesting to watch.

Bake Off I've not got into but your ice cream won't freeze sitting on the bench.

 

[Brighton TID]

Bake Off I've not got into but your ice cream won't freeze sitting on the bench.

Exactly what supergran was thinking.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Is that what they're making tonight?

Haha

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Thousands of children are being sexually and physically abused up and down this country and people are worried about a Baked Alaska being left out on TV....

Is this a BBC joke?? If not you could say the same abouy ANY post on herr being less important than child abuse Shirley

 

[drew]

This is the first time we have watched it. Wouldn't say it is a must watch program and agree that the judges do come across a bit smug. However with regard to this weeks controversy, I found it a bit odd that the BBC announced that Diana had left the programme due to ill health but at no point in the report did they wish a good recovery or report that she had recovered and was well (bearing in mind the episodes were recorded between April and June.

Had to laugh as the 'accused' apparently made a comment along the lines of 'it is an amateur competition with no prize money so why would you sabotage someone else's food'! If you weren't interested in winning, why would you enter in the first place!!!


Must try and record a few more films so that we can watch those instead.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Throw in a few more tantrums and the show might improve. I see in the Guardian that the lady we hadn't heard of since she appeared in the GBBO is now slagging off, err, the GBBO.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/aug/28/great-british-bake-off-scandal-unacceptable

 

[Brighton TID]

Is this a BBC joke?? If not you could say the same abouy ANY post on herr being less important than child abuse Shirley

I'm thinking that gregbrighton is actually Bono

 

[Goldstone1976]

I quite like the TV cookery programs.

GBBO on the other hand is a vile, smug, middle class abortion of a program not unlike the local W.I. webcamming a jam making contest. It can f*** off somewhere really far away and then f*** off again when it gets there.

Couldn't just about any TV cook show be labelled similarly? Hugh? Gordon? Rick Stein? Masterchef? Nigella? The one in Paris presented by the cute woman? Are you sure your vitriol isn't because this one's about baking? Fess up - you just hate cakes, don't you?

 

[Prince Monolulu]

I quite like the TV cookery programs.

GBBO on the other hand is a vile, smug, middle class abortion of a program not unlike the local W.I. webcamming a jam making contest. It can f*** off somewhere really far away and then f*** off again when it gets there.

Pretty much this, in fact I would have had difficulty expressing it any better.

 

[Spider]

A bizarre situation in many regards. If the BBC is adamant that Diana did nothing wrong, why did they decide to edit it in a way that so obviously implicated her. Once the programme had made such a 'story of The sabotage, why didn't the judges mention it at all at the end? That Diana woman acts like the typical older lady who seems nice but is actually all petty and passive aggressive.

 

[Since1982]

That Diana woman acts like the typical older lady who seems nice but is actually all petty and passive aggressive.

Wow, some sweeping generalisation there! A bit like "Muslims are typically all terrorists" or "Football supporters are typically violent thugs"

Do agree about the editing - although clearly designed to (successfully) stoke some coverage.

 

[Stuart Munday]

Bit naughty of the BBC, they edited it to look like the pudding had been left out for ages but it was only for 40 seconds so it didn't make any difference to the end product.
Bit of a shame really looks like they are trying to go down the X Factor route to drum up more publicity and trying to make the old woman look bad is a bit low , it won't be long before the contestants start coming up with sob stories, my dad loved this cake but he died last month etc etc.