Great British Menu 2025 Thread 2 - From beige sludge to poncey nonsense, but is any of it banquetworthy?

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The drama continues…

Claggy jus now!

That is not a pie. That’s a flan

It’s all very rushed 😬

Jeez Spencer is cooking now

Yes!

I'd eat that beef like that. Not too over, I don't think? Baring in mind that the people at the banquet aren't all foodies and would probably have medium rare.

If you’re already late, stop arsing about with stuff you’ve added at the last second and focus on what you said you would deliver FFS!

I have been watching but eating. Thoughts:

Maybe Lewis has the entire works of Dylan Thomas tattooed on his arm but in microdot form.

That bit with Ayesha and her mum was super awkward. Like they'd never actually met before.

That's not a pie, it's a flan. A flan. On The Great British Menu.

I said before that his pie was a tart, but flan also fits

That bit with Ayesha and her mum was super awkward. Like they'd never actually met before.

yes! Like her mum was surprised she cooked Middle Eastern food - weird!

Was very awkward. Has her mum never been to her restaurant

I do not get how this dish links to the brief at all. How does the actual food link to Wales or the Crimea or nursing? She could have at least made Spencer eat it wearing a balaclava.

The noise of them syringes

Now that lamb is way too well done!

Ooof! Not a noise you want to hear at a dinner table.

Cmon Esma. There is a syringe

Spencer looks queasy at having to eat this.

I would quite like the grand ballroom at Blenheim Palace ringing to the sound of mass squits.

Andi's outfits are also not quite cutting it for me this week.

We said the same about Ayesha and her Mum! Had her Mum never had any of her chef daughter's food before?

I think she was going for Shirley Bassey but has hit on Bet Lynch answering the door to the drayman in her pyjamas.

Higher scores than I was expecting.

Ok. Maybe her lamb tasted better than it looked when first carved.

And I'm getting irritated by them all saying "Oui chef" constantly

God this lot are such a bunch of stress buckets

So we’re at 18/18/21 now

Lime coriander mango - all the Welsh flavours there