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Hi Trashies!
This week I am speaking from the land of snot and headaches. No, not the new name the Scots are calling England, but my sickbed. Or vaguely unwell bed. Ironically it has given me the idea of going to a flu-cation place next summer to be paid to have it instead of just waiting around to have it for free. Its made me even more tardy than usual though so apologies for that.
So Ian has scraped through again and must be investing in teflon coating his pants. This week its another ‘cutesy/fun’ challenge followed by a more culinary one. Although the cutesy ones are actually more fun so far, and its coming up to Christmas and even I allow children to have fun sometimes.
The first challenge – the Judges do a shtick about being struggling chefs that need to open up a new business, making lemonade. They choose teams by picking straws – long or short. Addison the Soft Ball Queen spots that the long straw team has the oldest kids on and wants to be on this team.
Tosi is going to be judging blind the lemonade and the team that wins all get immunity. Again. I know they do this to make the numbers manageable, but it’s a crappy way of handling the situation. I’ve never really liked the fact US Masterchef allows all these ‘advantages’ and immunities, it detracts from the cooking part – but blithely waving half the contestants through a challenge is reaching ludicrous new heights. Especially if its anything like the last ‘fun’ challenge, it’ll have bugger all to do with cooking.
The kids start screaming and yelling as if the room is on fire, but no its just some balloons in a bag. Quite large balloons, full of lemonade, hovering over them like the sword of Damocles.
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The Screaming starts as Gordy’s balls descend
Addison looks like she’s having a fit.
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Unless she’s phobic of the color yellow, that’s an extreme reaction.
Slightly disturbingly Gordy promises one team will be drowned in the lemonade, so maybe Addison wasn’t over-reacting.
Apparently they’re making Raspberry mint lemonade – if you asked me what was better than lemonade I’d say Raspberry lemonade. I go mad for lemons and raspberries. Mr Mint would have a fatal accident on the way to the party if I had my way, but I can live it if needed.
Sam on Team Red is leading, and he hands out the jobs – Ian already is staring off into the middle distance.
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Would you buy Lemonade from this man?
On the plus side, at least they have a plan. Blue team is discovering that when everyone thinks they know what to do, no one is listening to anyone else, like any good office team. No leader emerges and it doesn’t look good.
‘Lemonade’ means slightly different things to different countries, although bizzarely most of them have all the different variants – they just call them different things. What we call Lemonade the French call Citrus Lemonade, we call their Lemonade ‘Cloudy Lemonade’ and I don’t think America has a lemonade like ours – although lemon and lime soda is close. Making this ‘home made’ kind of lemonade is pretty simple and for my money the best tasting if you get it right– I think making them do it as a team is making it harder not easier. Blue team seem to be moving around the table in a blob, whereas Red team has stuck to their job roles, so Red are better organized but its all down to the recipe they’ve followed. I suppose it depends which of the sprogs has been out in the summer giving food poisoning to hundreds of people before discovering the mix for lemonade that works.
It turns out the Red team, the one with Ian on it and the all the other youngsters, was best. So I do have to eat my words a bit. They won because they were organized and not all chasing the same job. Ian lucks out again, and I don’t think Kya has cooked now for a few weeks (bar the group challenge).
Sensibly enough, Ian doesn’t wait around to see if the winners are getting doused as well.
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Ian has a well honed survival instinct
Blue gets gunked. So does Red. Wow no one saw that coming. Ok Ian did, but he was corralled back into the paddling pool to get doused.
Its the elimination round. The judges are nowhere to be seen, until a disembodied Gordy voice croons ‘its all groovy man’.
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Ian and Addison demonstrate the correct reaction to a hippy
Bar the flowers, he looks more like Ozzy Ozbourne.
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Bite the head off a bat Gordy
TG is in seventies get up. Tosi enters in the very scarily attractive 80’s gear.