Great British Menu 2: Food Fit for Darkest Peru

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Yay Adam

Wow!
I do think that was a practical choice. So no double winner.

I'm pleased for Adam, but I wonder if Andi factored in Nick and Tom already reaching the banquet to her decision.

With nothing between them, it makes sense to let another chef do a course. Am not unhappy about this.

Good chefs. Great banquet

I still think 3 puddings would have been the most sensible solution.

Who wouldn't want 3 puddings?

The banquet kitchens are always utterly crap and unfunctional. They'd be better off with some kind of army field kitchen.

Do the same chefs also have to do the alternatives for their courses? So allergy / vegan / veggie etc.., or are these given to anonymous sous chefs?

In previous years the chefs have had to do vegetarian and vegan alternatives.

No! I said exactly this to my husband!

Sorry, that was to the question “Would you say that Banksy represented animation and illustration?”

Does anyone remember the regular sketch she used to do on Absolutely where she was a little girl perched on the edge of a table telling a very convoluted tall tale? Always finished up with “and it’s TWOO, it IS”. Brilliant.
Maigret was a bit of a supporting character in the Stoneybridge sketches but also good.

bananaman was robbed. As much as I like Andi I think her decision was based on Tom already having a dish on the menu

they should have had 2 deserts, that would have worked fir me

Yeah if 2 puddings got 40 points then both would have been good at banquet

I also think Adam was given the desert because the other two chefs had a dish in the banquet.

I have to admit that, as smug as he looked in his round week, he’s been quite a gracious loser all this week.

I think it was a very fair decision as the other two already had a winning dish.

I did wonder if Andi saying Adams dessert was the best she'd had on tgbm was added in post edit.

But I thought it was a fair choice

Shame neither of the women got through

Does seem an entirely sensible decision when all scored equally and the other two already had dishes through to concentrate on.

I thought this too. It’s more “art” than illustration/animation really. I suppose because he was referencing the work that was shredded at the auction, you might argue that it’s animation of a kind, but that’s a real stretch IMO.
Also, it’s clear that everyone else seems to have interpreted the theme as specifically children’s animation/illustration (because of the Paddington reference I suppose).
But TBH I always find the ”brief” on this show to be a bit artificial and often forced. I’d prefer it if the brief was more explicitly food-related e.g. a seasonal theme, or sustainability, or historical/forgotten ingredients, something like that.

The winning Radiohead fish dish wasn’t a kids’ thing, which I think was another point in its favour.

I think the brief thing is fair enough, but I do imagine that they must get a lot of help from designers/merchandisers who go uncredited. I mean, look at Adam’s Beano plate. That dish would have been nothing without him but who designed and made that? And surely they are going to cost a fortune for the banquet and be useless afterwards? (Suppose he could use in his restaurant).

Nothing without IT, not him.

That’s a good point. I also wonder whether they have “advisers” who help them with their theme. Although I still think some of the dishes were only very tenuously linked to the brief.

Actually that’s a bit unfair, I am sure that Adam’s dish would have looked fun and tasted spectacular on a plain white plate. But it would not have won.

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Andi in yesterdays dress, she looks so happy with it.

Really interesting. Andi or the BBC must pay a fortune in dry cleaning fees. She wears very expensive clothing in a kitchen with frying and BBQ. They will have very good extraction but she often leans directly over the dishes.