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…

There will be a flan pretending to be a pie

Evening all. I think the best they can hope for is "not quite unmitigated disaster"..... Wonder how many times we'll hear "claggy" tonight?

CLAGGY

Daniel is reminding me of Craig Cash in his voice and his demeanour.

This feels very foregone conclusion-y.

Stop it!!

Great. Mushrooms and custard.

Oh dear. Tom is starting off so happy and enthusiastic. Wonder how long it'll last

And Ed might want a can of Stella to wash down some of the clag about to land in front of him.

“Potential” as in definitely not yet good

Looked at Lorna’s restaurant.

very dear. I don’t think we could ever afford.

WTF is Andie wearing?

'Claggy' sounds like it could be some regional speciality. One of those foodstuffs miners used to have in their snap tins.

Cerys Matthews!!!

Are these dishes going to give Cerys road rage?

Claggy biscuits Claggy pudding

Food Rage

Who killed tom Kerridge

All these shows someone does mushroom ketchup, there's a reason it hasn't caught on.

The telescope one might make her feel like Mulder and Scully. Or that mysterious black choux bun. Could be a meteorite or an embryonic alien.

That Scottish judge is a fucking misery. She makes Andy Murray sound animated!

I'm eating ready salted crisps and do not envy the judges.

Omg that sludge

Cerys's face when she took the first mouthful 😂

Salt and vinegar hula hoops and butlers dark choc salted caramel here

Nobody wants custard in a starter.

Am going for a chocolate croissant