Most of them choose to make conchas, the round, sweet rolls with a cracked top that you have definitely had if you’ve ever experienced a Mexican hotel-breakfast buffet. The bakers are tasked with making a dozen pan dulce, or sweet breads, not to be confused with sweetbreads, which are the organs of lambs or cows that people are somehow compelled to eat. The whole signature challenge is pretty much dead in the dough. It’s hard enough making amazing feats of pastry when the bakers know what they’re getting into when they have to adapt to recipes that may be entirely unfamiliar to them, it gets even harder. Mexican week, as is often the case when they do these country-themed weeks, is a bit of a bust. Syabira pronounces both of the l’s in tortilla, but I am going to give her a pass because English is her second language and it’s not as if she was surrounded by great examples of pronunciation on this set.
Compost Carole couldn’t even say the name of her own dish, calling it Pan Denise, as if it’s something Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife and former Real Housewife of Beverly Hills would cook in. He also says “pico de callow” as if the condiment doesn’t yet have enough experience. Paul Hollywood says “taco” with a curl to the a that sounds nothing like the “tah-co” you’d hear in America. Speaking of tongues, the way they pronounce some of the things the bakers have to make this week is just staggering. That these people have to spell Oaxaca phonetically so they can to wrap their little tongues around it says it all. (Okay, not really, though I shouldn’t give them any ideas.) There is actually a chain of Mexican - or should I say “Mexican-inspired” - restaurants here called Wahaca. You can buy pea-flavored Kit Kats over here. Remember the whole “ You can’t put peas in guacamole” dustup on the internet a few years back? That didn’t happen in Britain because they put peas in everything.
I have long said that the country of Mexico should sue the United Kingdom at the Hague for the crime that is Mexican food on this here island (and the little bit of Ireland that colonialism won’t let go of).
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