To find the National Treasure, Mary Berry's latest series irritating?

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As much as I love her, this latest series is really a bit patronising and the recipes are not just pricey but a bit shit in the modern world. Not daring to critique the NT, like. Whaddya think?

Mary Berry is irritating. Or at least the furore around her is. Every time I click past BBC2 it's another terribly samey programme from her, with pastels and shit.

I get distracted by her huge false eyelashes.

Why have they called her a national treasure anyway? To my (limited) knowledge she hasn't saved lives through her baking. She's just made a few middle class people feel superficially happier through food porn.

I've had wine.

whispers actually, I just said I love her because she is the National Treasure. Really, I find her really annoying and a fucking knowitall-I-am-the-oracle sort of person - know heaps of women who could cook well of her generation. Cakes : Brilliant, not to be faulted. Savoury : Not so much.

stonelog yeay! Me too or I wouldn't have posted this insult!

meglet I know! What's the deal there?

God she annoys me. For some reason I can't abide watching her try the cakes/buns/whatever on GBBO. Very offputting.

I'm surprised, I really like the series and will buy the book when it comes out, definitely my sort of cooking.

I've seen her in RL, she has a wicked sense of humour and outrageously saucy!

I like her

You dont have to have saved lives stonelog to be a national treasure. Tsk tsk. You just have to be Joanna lumley, or felicity Kendall, or Stephen fry. Or is this case, Mary berry.

What's recipes were pricey btw? I haven't seen this week's some yet.

Her non-cake recipes tend to be v disappointing plus she clearly doesn't eat them as they are all full of cream and butter but she is miniscule.

Cake-wise I'm suspicious as she still recommends Stork over butter

Dame, the book has been out for about a month!

She doesn't annoy me. I think she's great and love her show.

I haven't seen this week's yet, but am a tad irritated by the style....trying to Nigella her up a bit, it's coming over very badly imo

However I don't think you can fault any of her recipes....I think she is generally very reasonable in her ingredient selection, plenty of scope to splash the cash or keep it a bit more budget

And besides, she was more than polite when I chased her across a field and asked her to sign my GBBO book a couple of years back. I was >< far from that floral jacket. Oh yes!

:o

From the bits I've seen, she's great on TGBBOff but this series is patronising and the recipes are outdated and not really relevant to many. Flour to a chicken sauce tonight, added really at the last minute. That's the kind of technique used by my Mum in the 70's. Things have moved on.

and that sausage lasagne was fecking delicious...I made it for the ILs, and will certainly make it again.

She says she just tries a little bit, that's how she stays so slim. I love Mary Berry but give me Nigella any day.

Kundry Cake-wise I'm suspicious as she still recommends Stork over butter Good point, well made

CaTs - I thought that sausage lasagne looked like it could be good.

I love her. I wish she would adopt me and cook me delicious cakes and such like. My baby is called Mary too. I think she is brilliant.

I discovered I've already got the book.

I like Mary Berry and all but it really irritates me when she takes a bite of something from the side of her mouth.

It reminds me of a cat eating a sausage.

Great, I'll be getting the book when it's on special in Tesco

Nope. Can't help it. I find her smug and a know-it-all. There. My Mum's generation has many fine women, but ... There's Something About Mary.