Food Glorious Food has to be the most anticlimactic show on TV. The format was poor, the judges dull and the finale practically signalled that it was time to go to sleep. It was a dismal affair.
When I first started watching the show I was initially excited, most likely at the presence of food being on my TV screen, but there was a small amount of intrigue into how the show would progress. I enjoyed the first stages of the show and some interesting and unique dishes won rosettes and eventually made it to the semi finals. However it is at this point that things soon start to sink into a sour state and the production of TV tripe begins.
It seemed after the opening stages the judges were rendered pointless. Having already judged the food and argued a considerable amount at a dinner table about what dish should make it into the semis it seemed the second stages gave them absolutely fuck all to do. That is, other than get in the way of people when trying to cook in a bid to provide moral support. I wonder how much they where being paid to be such a hindrance? Probably too much. Regardless the judges had very little life to them anyway.
The semi finals where not only a way of displaying how much cash has been thrown into the show but they where also terribly formatted. First of all it was split into two stages, three dishes competing one week and three others the next. Something I find very problematic. As all dishes where not judges against each other it makes the whole thing unfair. After all who decided what dishes would go against each other and what’s to say had they gone against one of the other dishes in the following week the results wouldn’t be different. This wasn’t the only flaw with the second stage, no. The two weeks had different people judging. The first week the WI…so that’s all women, some very picky know-it-all women and the second week was judged by a mixed gender crowed of emergency service workers. Now I’m no rocket scientist but that seems awfully unbalanced. Week one of the semi finals saw a pasty compete against some jelly and a salmon cheesecake. Week two, two curries against some cheese filled pafiterolls. The pasty didn’t go down well with the WI women, however I can’t help but think it would have gone down a treat with the service workers. It all seemed dreadfully unfair and poorly planned out. 
In the end it was the jelly and one of the two curries that made it to the final. Yes that’s two original dishes that we really do not already have enough of on our shelves progressing to the final. How exciting…Not. I watched the final despite being uninspired by the final dishes and knowing that I would never buy any of them…and it was as I expected a bore. The most exciting part of the whole hour was finding out how M&S shoot their AMAZING commercials. The final was judged by the public, how? By having people hand out tastes in the shop and then vote if they would buy it…I know. Seriously I really don’t think there is much more I can say on how awful the progression of this show was and how originality it lacked . In fact I think the end result said it all. The curry won.
CAN'T KEEP UP WITH CULTURE 