[ SECRET POST #4107 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4107 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

How does this even come up in a baking show?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it is called "The Great British Bake Off" so - surprise! - it's very focused on Great Britain and British baked goods. I wouldn't say it's disturbingly nationalistic, but then I am American and while I'm not a flag waving eagle loving patriot, I find that many Brits are much more sensitive about this issue.

[(Anonymous)]

Right, but there's a bit of a difference between "we're focused on British baked goods" and "the sun never sets on the Great British Bake Off."

[(Anonymous)]

Now I really want the Great British Bake Off to start invading other cooking shows across national and international TV.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember that "American Pies" challenge and the results were at best American-adjacent. There was a weird kind of superiority about it too, but idk. Maybe it's bc no one actually made any kind of fruit pie I would call American. Even the key lime pie wasn't made with key limes.

Like just make a fucking apple pie jfc.

Oh, and in case it's not clear i actually really do love GBBO. But that challenge sucked.

[(Anonymous)]

lol, my takeaway from that was that calling them "American" pies was a nice way to save face over the fact that Brits can't pie.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Do they not have pie pans in the UK? Iirc, all of the pies they made were actually tarts.

[(Anonymous)]

They make those amazing meat pies, though. It's just the flat, fruity ones tgat give them trouble.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had the meat pies. They're okay.

[(Anonymous)]

Same, anon. It irked me that they seemed to go out of their way to insult American pies for being too sweet or too whatever and then made a bunch of tarts. None of the pies made were actually American at all - the key lime pie was closest, but yeah, not made with key limes.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally agree. I still get mad when I think too long about that episode.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude. Apple pies are about 800 years older than your fucking country.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude. Tea is 3000 years older than yours.

[(Anonymous)]

I think some Brits feel a lot more... white empire guilt over nationalism than I personally do as an American. Maybe it helps that I'm a POC and my family are recent immigrants. But series one didn't seem excessive to me. It was rough in terms of format, but then it was the first series. I still enjoyed it, though I prefer the later seasons. Series 5 was my favorite.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never watched the first season, but the show has always seemed nostalgic for British baked goods. That doesn't seem weird or wrong to me, but I'm not British.

[greghousesgf]

I don't get that vibe at all, especially since some of the contestants are Black or Indian or Asian and I never once got the feeling anyone was ever being patronising or hostile to them.

[(Anonymous)]

lol what

black/indian/asian people can be british and most on that show are

[greghousesgf]

of course they are!
but a white British person with colonialistic attitudes would be racist towards those people and consider them not real Brits.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't get that vibe from first season, but it was definitely not the strongest season - the competitors were great but the hosts and judges hadn't really settled in yet, and the historical facts sections were a bit wobbly too.