magnificentoctopus
Magnificent Octopus
magnificentoctopus

I know it's a bit mean, but I was so relieved that Jurgen went home. He's my least favourite if the group that's left, and now the others will all be in the final.

I keep thinking of Catherine, from several years back, who started her bake over after dropping her dough on the floor: “I’m not serving Mary Berry carpet!”

People do tend to be reckless while riding them. As a cyclist, I worry about them because I can't hear them overtaking me in the cycle lane, and I could easily knock them into traffic if I swerve to avoid a pothole or something.

I enjoyed those too. They made the show feel slower and gentler, somehow. Although I remember one that referenced the Irish Famine that annoyed my (Irish) husband, who insisted the history was wrong.

Yep, sorry. I realised the mistake after the edit window had closed.

Paul is mildly annoying,  but he does the job as a host. I'm just not sure there's any evidence that he's being particularly coddled by the producers.

If you mean Sue and Meg,  they left when Channel 4 bought the show. Not sure it was anything to do with Paul.

But there was nothing wrong with Lizze’s flavours either. And those macarons were awful. Paul used to be particularly annoyed by bad macarons.

I would definitely have sent Jurgen home, the fact that he’s done well so far shouldn’t matter,  this was easily his worst week. And his first two bakes were worse than Lizze’s,  even if they really liked his showstopper.

Just realising that “Chigs and Lizze” sounds like a twee folk duo that I might be into.

I mean, I put roasted broccoli and tomatoes in my mac and cheese, so that it's somewhat a proper meal, and I like raisens, but I would not do this.

On Bake off,  I can imagine a challenge to sonehow make a tiered crumble. They will tier anything on this show.

I feel like Chigs has barely been on camera before, and now he pulls off star Baker. He’s giving off strong Dave vibes, from last season, or maybe that's just me.

Assball. Obviously.

My first thought was the Observers from MST3K, who have food pills, but you have to eat several large bowls of the pills a day.

Are you sure the takeaway isn’t: Osment stole a role that Caine had been practicing for for years, and should have been rightfully his?

My dad lives in an area with a large black bear population, and one year he said the town reported 3 bear attacks: two people were bitten on the hand while feeding bears,  and one on the foot while standing too close to take a picture.

Every single dog my mother owns learns the sound of the cheese compartment within a month of moving into her house. The current dog also has an almost scary obsession with eggs. My mom feeds them far too much people food.

I hated broccoli growing up, but that’s because the only broccoli my mom made was “reheat frozen broccoli in microwave with no seasoning”. Its now one of my favourite vegetables.

Some restaurants where I live have a special vegan menu you can request, and being vegetarian, I sometimes ask for the vegan menu, but I’ve always wondered if this annoys the staff, since it’s a menu full of things they clearly didn’t put on the main menu for a reason.