I was as distressed watching this as the lady in the pink shirt. Thanks again for having me Uncle Roger. Can’t wait to see you soon, this time behind the chefs counter 😈
SIGH!!!! As a white guy who grew up in San Antonio, I feel you, but for Pete's sake, these are British bakers, and likely don't have access to Mexican food. Give people a break, and they might give you one back.
@@MichaelMartin-eh6wl No excuse to be this ignorant in a world with the internet and social media and shows/movies, even a dead chimp could understand better what goes in a taco than these people lol
@@MichaelMartin-eh6wl lol bro, ur most likely to get a bunch of semi-angry replies to that comment, so its my friendly advice to delete it before somebody comes for your throat
You wanna know the ironic part? Mexico has a MASSIVE encyclopedia of traditional breads as well as desserts that wouldve been fun to see contestants make that fit within a BAKING show. And instead im watching a bunch of gringos struggle to make beans and peeling avocados like theyre apples. Im telling you, as a fan of the early seasons, Mary Berry would never have let this kind of nonsense continue.
Showed my mom this video, she laughed at the woman peeling the guacamole and said "ayy que pendeja" then she got mad and hit me. The true Mexican experience.
As a Mexican, when I first watched this episode of GBB, I wanted to rend my garments-everything was so bad from pronunciation to prep! So thank you for this takedown, Uncle Roger. It brought joy to my heart.
@@dealerhealer3673he's not that wrong actually. Many places and restaurants serve pico de gallo, guacamole and salsas on the side. It also depends ofc on the city you live and the type of taco you order.
Well yes..... but since he's white he's not allowed to make jokes about race. It could end his career. Nigel and Trevor Noah both do and with quite a lot of taste and little or no mean spirit. Even as a middle-aged white guy who don't make jokes about race I enjoy it when those who can do.
This reminds me of the time I, a resident of Texas, studied abroad in London. We all received an email that explained things about how life would be in London and what to expect. One of the things that it said, I will never forget, was: "If, and only if, you are truly desperate for Tex-Mex, there is one restaurant in all of London that serves it. It's called The Texas Embasay. And it is not nearly as good as what you're probably used to."
Most of European cuisine is not spicy at all. Especially in countries further north. I'm from Poland and people look at me all weird when I eat whole raw Cayenne Peppers, or slices of Habanero with my dinner. They say I'm going to burn a hole in my stomach, since most consider pickled jalapenos to be too hot for their taste. Well nowadays You can maybe find a couple of pizza and burger places here and there, that offer carolina reaper sauce, which is quite spicy indeed. So spicy in fact that after a couple of hours it burns after peeing for a moment.
I like that Uncle Roger is more forgiving when it comes to the contestants confusing things like pronunciation and then roasting the judges when they mess up, because yeah, they should know better, they're supposed to be the pros. If I recall, this is also how Gordon Ramsay goes about it, he's more patient with the inexperienced chefs who genuinely want to learn and quick to tell the "I know everything, I'm an executive chef" types to piss off when they mess up. Oh, have you reacted to any Hell's Kitchen episodes? :D It would be interesting to see Uncle Roger's reactions to some of the signature dishes. :D
7:46 my wife has the soap gene. She brings it up a lot anytime we get Mexican, because I love cilantro. Eventually she decided to force me to taste test soap to understand the pain she has to experience anytime she eats cilantro. Turns out I have the soap gene too. The soap really had that nice cilantro flavor I love
If I may add to the “As a Mexican™️” input: Uncle Roger’s comment about too many spices interfering with the simplicity of Mexican cuisine is _spot on_ - much of Mexican seasoning of chicken or beef is salt, pepper, and _maybe_ lime, onion, beer, and/or a specific chile. None of my tías’ recipes use cumin or paprika or chili powder, and oregano is used as a condiment in specific circumstances.
I’m Puerto Rican so at first I was like “I’m just going to do whatever I want” but when I got to that part of the video I was like “??????????” Because never in my life could I possibly imagine saturating meat like that for TACOS
Nah, I completely disagree. Although mexican cuisine can be simple there are a lot, and I really mean A LOT, of dishes that are complex AF. Just imagine a mole, asado norteño, menudo, pozole, etc. Alv, it's like an infinite list of spices.
@@miguelmatienzoguer That’s fair. But those are specific dishes. I guess I’m referring more to the typical dishes people think of as Mexican food: asadas or carnitas for tacos, beans, guacamole, salsa, etc. The flavor profiles are _not_ the tex-mex chile powder/cumin/smoked paprika business. They are salt and maybe garlic and maaaaybe pepper/beer/lime/one tía uses orange but the other tía uses coke… Or maybe I just need people to stop using cumin so much 🤷🏻♀️🤣
As a full-blooded Mexican I thank you both for this video 😂 It had me laughing so damn hard lmao from Chef to Chef thank you for the amount of respect you both show to the food and all the different cultures.❤
I’m Mexican. I teared up bit, not in a good way. I can hear my Abuelita screaming in rage from beyond the grave since they started those tortillas. My mama is flinging her chanclas at the screen after looking at those beans. My papa snapped his belt in half after seeing that raw ass steak. The very soul of Mexican food is weeping bloody tears. The British invaded every corner of the world and decided that “no, we don’t like flavor. We’ll ruin every foreign dish we touch.”
you're right about them hating flavor lol. I once saw a video where a couple made some dish and only used black pepper to season it, the woman started coughing when she tried it and she said "oh wow that has quite a kick innit?" 😂
The best part about this is that Paul wanted to do Mexican week because he'd just spent a bunch of time there (and did several videos for his TH-cam channel), but still couldn't pronounce things or distinguish a taco from a tortilla.
I never ate authentic mexican food because i live in an area where there are very little restaurants that offer something like that but even i know some basics from Joshua or from rick. Especially that you dont use feta instead of cotija. Ever.
Also i agree, never ever i see people peel avocado peel/skin And this is the first time i see it.. My reactions are like "Uhh.. wait wut?" or "Wat the hecc" 😂
It’s a hard yet hilarious video to watch. I wanted to judge but then the cotija cheese comment made me think.. I live in northern Mexico (Coahuila) and cannot even get cotija cheese here. I have to buy some when I visit my in laws in southern Mexico. Some people here don’t even know what it is (yeah I was shocked too). the point is, if I live IN Mexico and can’t find it easily, I imagine in the UK they would find it even more difficult. The other thing is…. If you don’t know how something should be made or how it should taste it makes it very difficult to make it. When I first met my Mexican hubby I wanted to cook him some authentic Mexican food, so I bought a book, found a recipe, spent a fortune on ingredients, cooked for 6 hours and in the end I did it wrong because I used a wrong ingredient which was one of the most important. It tasted good but it was wrong. Once I began to taste real Mexican cooking, it became easier to cook it. I know there are some Mexicans who live in the UK but let’s be real, there’s not enough for probably 99% of the population to have ever tried authentic Mexican cuisine.. really the show would have been better if they brought some people from Mexico to cook and show them what a real taco taste’s like and then they try to recreate it..
Glockymolo took me all the way out I am actually crying. This is so funny. As a Mexican living in TX I couldn’t imagine eating Mexican food over there.
Eh, it's not a super common cuisine here. There's no mexican fast food, and mexican restaurants are pretty rare. Mexico's an ocean away. Most brits have only really ever had an Old El Paso fajita kit, that's our exposure to mexican food. It's just not a very common cuisine outside North America I suppose.
@@calum5975 Yeah, spot on. 'tor-till-ers' :-) I've eaten amazing corn tacos, I've yet to find an authentic Mexican restaurant/takeaway here in the UK, which is such a crying shame b/c the cuisine is so varied. I once visited a Mexican restaurant, had high hopes, my stomach was soon heading for the exit as the waitress started bringing the food out which included spicy wedges straight from Iceland lol
@@Herbie-Went-Bananas-Then-Split A big part of having a cuisine grow in any nation is having immigrants bring it over. It's why britain has so many Indian and chinese takeaways, even a Jamaican restaurants are more common. Mexicans simply don't migrate to the UK. They have no historical connection to the British Empire unlike those others. Americans should remember this when they laugh about the lack of Mexican food in the UK. Why would the UK have mexican food, we have very few mexicans.
I’m British, and in the beginning I used to deny that we cooked like this, but as I’ve watched more and more videos like this, I’m realising that most of us really are terrible at cooking
This what you get when the British government overdid their food rationing from 1939 to _1954_ . That essentially wiped out British culinary arts until the middle 1990's, when the final UK laws based on food rationing finally ended.
My aunts and cousin have a tradition where we watch the GBBO while making Christmas cookies, and it takes place the weekend right after I’m done with finals so I sleep a lot. I woke up right in the middle of this episode so thankfully I missed the disastrous taco section, so I’ve only heard rumors from my relatives on how bad it is until now. I know “pico de Gaulle-o” would’ve taken me out instantly.
As a Mexican, I´m offended and glad they got it wrong, tacos are simple and yet so complicated, it was interesting to see how English people understand Mexican cuisine. Great collab, more like these please.
As a British person, I'm pissed that this country doesn't have access really to good Mexican food. Such an awesome style of cuisine, and all people think of are: guacamole; chilli con carne (often done badly); and tacos (always hard shelled and with no semblance of actual taco fillings)
In some sort of a defence as a brit. We unfortunately don't have Mexican food in our country, avocados are quite new to the supermarkets here. I'm lucky I've been to the states and eaten Mexican. trust me I looked the biggest fool trying to order when you don't even know what the foods are. Unfortunate as I loved the food
@fyrefly0872 no I don't watch TV I work and if I'm gonna watch something I'll stick on a Documentary. Also Why would I go looking at random country's food and culture that has no connection to me or my culture. We eat loads of Indian food here as we are intergrated like Americans and Mexicans are.I can tell you loads about Indian food and culture and there history because its what im around.Don't look to call people racist at the drop of a hat because there life involves different cultures to your own. Over 250 cultures on the planet we can't know them all.
@FyreFly08 Mexican culture and food is hardly known in Europe. You can't miss what you don't know. I'm from Germany and the most Mexican stuff available in stores is Corona beer, taco shells, tortilla chips in different flavors, artificial cheese dip and salsa that is most likely a steak sauce. Most German would guess chili con Carne is Mexican food.
as a mexican i cried every time they said galo, every time there was beans being massacred, and seeing them make "tortilas". not just seeing the grandma peel an avocado like ginger.
The lady peeling an avocado like a carrot, to the lack of tortilla presser, to no oil in the pan, to thinking pico de Galileo is a salsa, and the feta cheese IN A TACO sent me in tears
I’m from Central California, where we eat Mexican food not just as everyday fare, but for celebrations of all kinds. In fact, if you don’t serve it for get-togethers, people think something is wrong with you (I recommend salsa as a hangover cure, btw). I watched this show with a jaw-drop cringe. The whole show! I couldn’t believe it! Why they didn’t just stick to baking is beyond me. I would never try what they made!
Joshua and Roger make like a good cop bad cop combo haha Joshua is about procedure and specifics and uncle Roger the full comedic humor, this was great.
@@sanbilge And he understands the difference between Tex-Mex and *actual* Mexican. That's a huge issue - so many people think that Tex-Mex is Mexican cooking. Anything you see in most American restaurants, from a sit-down place to a food cart, is Tex-Mex. Same as how most "Italian" food is Americanized. Almost no authentic Italian food uses cheese, but we DOUSE our food in it here.
I’m Mexican American, and personally, I’ve never seen a Mexican use rare steak for tacos. It’s always fully cooked, seasoned simply yet heavily, and usually you chop the steak to small bits before you start cooking it.
If you’re cooking the meat on the stove there shouldn’t be a problem dicing it up beforehand. Some meat markets will even sell you “taco meat” ready to cook on the stove. If you’re going to grill a slab of fajita obviously you cut it up afterwards
Having lived in the UK for almost 2 years, and having seen their idea of “Mexican” food in the stores there, I can confirm that this is par for the course. The salsa at Sainsbury’s is a true travesty.
@@ryutheslayer123 The salsa is super sweet. It’s a level of sweetness that wouldn’t be appropriate outside of a mango salsa. Fortunately I tasted it before I added it to my taco filling. Also, I’m not surprised that they were having such a time with the tortillas; the “corn tortillas” sold over there were a texture that I’ve never encountered before or since.
Uncle Roger: "Don't be so harsh on them, Joshua. They're bakers, not chefs." Also Uncle Roger: *roasts their tortilla-making skills by referencing their recently-deceased queen HAHA love it, Uncle Roger! Please more collabs in the future
That avocado peeling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm mexican, I told my mom about this, and she stopped everything she was doing just for seeing with her own eyes that scene.
You guys have SUPERB comedic chemistry, Uncle Roger as the "funny" one whose constantly acting out and Joshua as the straight man, trying to reign him in whilst also playing along and getting his own gags in. Perfection.
The only thing that is close to Mexican week are the costumes, such a coincidence since the beginning is a bit identical for Japanese week except the only Japanese thing is Noel saying “Konnichiwa”
I died on Japanese week and now my husband dies during Mexican week. Except the Juan jokes was funny. My husband makes this kind of dad jokes all the time.
I as a man of Mexican heritage myself, am just enjoying the British experience of them struggling to pronounce even the most basic ingredients of my culture, let alone make the dishes. No mames gringos! 😂
What confuses me more is they say they've *never* had tacos? They've never made tacos? Like, not even as takeout, or one of those taco kits at the grocery store? Aren't tacos usually lumped in under the "american food" umbrella, with burgers, or fries, or pie? Do they not have tacos in the UK?
@@Neopolitan-tk8tu Mexican restaurants are really not a big thing in europe, the kebap basically has that position (than mexican restaurants have in the US) over here. For example, my city of 250000 citiziens only have 1 decent mexican restaurant and is not even great for how expensive it is. And not ,the only fast food american chain that sells that kind of tex mex food is taco bell and they mostly sell burritos. London has mexican restaurants but again pretty mediocre and expensive, nothing like the real thing with very few exceptions. Madrid or Barcelona i think have better mexican restaurants.
@@Neopolitan-tk8tu Do they not have tacos in the UK? We do have tacos, but they're not common. About 5 years ago I went to the first Taco Bell in Scotland. Most "Mexican" food we eat here is nachos, burritos, or chilli con carne.
@@southcoastinventors6583 ok but like... deboning a fish requires someone to teach you and certain knife skills, using avocado, at least here in Chile, is something you do for supper or breakfast!! it's just jarring they do it wrong hahaha
As a Mexican man myself, I can tell you the British chefs and the judges makes me hear my ancestors cry. At least the British chef making refried beans is a bit better than jacks bean salad, which is canned beans mixed with mayonnaise, raw onions, and vinegar.
The real crime in this episode was when they made the contestants try to make a tres leches cake with multiple layers and then complain when the cake was soggy... TRES LECHES IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOGGY!
@@KalimbaKirb If you knew what happened, you know. Its not insane, its BASTARDIZED. The idiots who never did their homework yet somehow nominated as judges.
@@ThatchNetherfoldof course should be crispy in traditional British cuisine, they been fucking up all the way back, You are mistaking this rendang from traditional Asian region 😂😂😂
Oye, this is the funniest thing I've watched in months. Top tier humour from these two, what a delight and what a fortunate combination. Love you both, this was a stand up act on its own.
As someone who grew up in Texas with great Tex mex and Mexican food but now lives in Scotland, I’m afraid to inform you that many Mexican restaurants here use feta instead of cotija (which is only really available in specialty stores in major cities)
Well, I think at least it’s understandable, if it’s only available in bigger cities. I don’t really see a problem with substituting, if it’s not available. Better than letting it be shipped around the world 😅
I haven't been able to find Mexican cheeses even in bigger cities 😭 is there a place in Edinburgh maybe? I know there's a Mexican grocery there but I heard they usually don't have cheeses.
As a Brit who loves making authentic Mexican food, it is tricky to find the right ingredients as most supermarkets don’t carry cotija cheese etc - we do what we can! But this was shockingly bad lol
Try using Fresh cheese or queso oaxaca (The string chihuahua cheese is top tier too) we mainly use cotija for snacks such as chicharrones or sometimes gorditas
The worst part of this is that Paul actually went to Mexico for desserts and sweetbread, so he should know how to pronounce the names of the dishes properly.
Brits straight up do not learn how to pronounce things in other languages. They see how it’s spelled and then figure “this is how to say this” and that is how you wind up getting Spanish small plates when a Brit asks if you’re in the mood for “tap ass”
@@theclassicalstudent sounds more like an American thing to me, most brits I’ve met have been able to speak multiple languages, which is more than can be said for over here.
There's literally like 3 steps to how to peel a avocado 1. Cut in the middle till you meet the seed 2. Cut around the seed 3. Grab the peel line between the flesh of the avocado and slowly peel like a banana
As a person who lived in Mexico for 18 years, this was painful. Thank you Uncle Joshua and Uncle Roger for this. Every taco stand in Mexico salutes you. #dosdepastorporfa #emotionaldamage
I knew this was going to be bad right out the gate. They said "Mexican tacos"..... and they didn't disappoint either. She actually peeled an avocado like a potato!! Why?!
I’m Mexican and my friend who lives in Britain sends me pictures of her food when she goes to get Mexican and those pictures make me and my abuela cry every single time. The food looks so sad :(
It's because there is very little Mexican immigration to the UK, so there are no Abuela's in the UK teaching traditional and tasty recipes. At best the Brits and trying to piece it together from US media about Taco Bell and ingredients from the Spanish grocers, using French cooking techniques. Same in Australia, Mexican food here is sad and whitewashed (it's a little better than in the UK because we have more access to specialised ingredients and some South American immigration to teach us less westernised cooking techniques, but it's still not real Mexican)
@@AreilKnight to be fair, americans do the same with Chinese food. Most Chinese restaurants sell Americanized Chinese food just like how Taco Bell sells Americanized Mexican street food and how many restaurants sell Americanized Italian food. And if most Americans has to make these authentic foods from scratch then they wouldn't make it right since they mostly dont eat authentic foreign food.
@@RebelRed no, its called the british bake off because everyone involved is british. Barely about half the recipes are british. Masterchef isnt doing a british challenge dear.
I'm American, my wife is Greek, actually from Greece. When we went over to visit her family, her brother REALLY wanted me to make "authentic" tacos for them. Obviously, I gave it my best go, but even trying to do Americanized tacos was difficult. There are just a lot of things they don't have in Greece like sour cream, cojita cheese, certain spices like Chile powder, etc. But after that, her brother did his own research, found out some things we weren't able to teach him, and he video called us to show us his taco dinner, and it was more authentic than this British baking shows version! And he was using Greek yogurt as a substitution for sour cream! (Greek yogurt is pretty sour, and does actually do an okay stand in, depending on what you're using it for.
What's really painful is this wasn't in Greece, this was in the UK where a lot of required ingredients are readily available to some extent. Sour cream, to cherry pick from you comment, is in every corner store. Decent chillies are a little harder but one of the major supermarket chains stock a decent selection of dried chillies and/or their respective flakes in their larger stores. I absolutely stand by their being fantastic food from a massive variety of ethnicities in the UK, but this disgrace absolutely felt like we were back in the 50s in terms of taking other cuisines, and getting rid of everything important flavour (and culture) wise. Authentic Mexican food isn't super common in the UK for many reasons, but it doesn't take much looking to find decent Hispanic food in any major UK city. That's being said, doing something along the lines of Indian/South Asian Street food would have been far far more appropriate. The availability of ingredients and knowledge of these cuisines is far more available in the UK, and offers a huge variety of baking related dishes that could have been done.
And sour cream is not necessary. Onion, lime and cilantro with some great meat. Hopefully nice homemade salsa. That will do. edit: some pickled onion and radish would hurt
@@tulip811 if you are American like me, GBBO spring rolls seem like what we call egg rolls, not the Vietnamese spring rolls which are served cold and can get quite large.
I'm white and I'm not very good at cooking. I still cringed. How the hell is someone's first thought when cutting/peeling an avocado to do it like THAT
I'm from NZ and white as it gets and even I nearly spat my drink out when I saw that...these people need to get on wikipedia at least to learn something about the rest of the world. Unfortunately with NZ being a British Dominion we got their shit food, but fortunately NZ is about as far as you can get from the UK and still have a decent life, with decent food, which is usually not British. Edit: To my white brothers above, thank the maker that some of us are making an effort haiyaa!!! lol
Being half Latina and growing up making and/or eating these foods, this episode nearly killed me. They also made pan dulce which comes in an insane variety of shapes and flavors but most of the contestants made conchas which seems to be the only pan dulce non-Latino people are familiar with.
Another mexican week had Flautas. They kept using "flautas" to refer to one flauta. "A good flautas..." "a flautas blah blah" like bruh, it's a flauta, the s means plural. It was so irritating. Even my very American (part german) inlaws, who've enjoyed my flautas, were cringing.
*Mexican. These are purely Mexican/MesoAmerican dishes. They have nothing do with the rest of “Latin” America. Also... Latinos are from Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and Romania. You’re going by the terms (Hispanic, and Latino) that were “misused” and then coined by the American Richard Nixon administration during the 1970s. No one in “Latin” America refers to themselves like that most of the time.
@@tlamatini4617 That’s interesting. I wasn’t aware of that because most people I know in America grow up with that terminology when referring to any country south of America. My mom’s side is from Mexico and we’ve been able to date our recorded ancestry to as far back as when California was still Mexican territory. My grandma got on a genealogy kick so we learned quite a bit.
I thought the Mexican episode was hilarious! I had thought that Mexican food was popular all over the world! Being from the USA, where Mexican food is prolific, it was amazing to me that the Brits knew so little about it.
Yeah... Mecican food is not that popular outside of Mexico and US. Even in the US, Mexican food is more popular in the Southwest than elsewhere, though it has changed in recent years.
@@Joetheknight406 'pee-coe de gajjo' or 'pee-coe de gayo'? I know what it is but not sure how to pronounce it. So there goes your theory😆 Must have something to do with Spanish not being as prevalent in western Europe as it is in the Americas. In my language: people pronounce the double L in 'gallo'. Plus: if we hear Spanish it is usually 'Castellano', which sounds different from the Spanish you hear in the Americas. So it's not surprising we don't know how to pronounce pico de gallo like a Mexican or 'Tejano'. I also think people would give me weird looks if I started ordering my tex Mex pronouncing the dishes like a Mexican national. "Two burrrrrritos and a side of arrrrrrrrrozzzzz, por favorrrrrrrr" when the person behind the counter is as gernanic as lederhosen or as British as two bags of crisps and a pint of lager. 'Oh! You mean Pee-coe the gallow! Eat in or take-away? Coke, Fanta or Sprite?" 😆
I showed this to my Abuela she threw her hands up and left the room and was like "This is why they colonized half the planet, because they can't cook worth shit. They need all the help they can get." 🤣
As a British person watching this “great british bake-off” episode the 1st time around I was horrified, at least this time around I had Uncle Roger & Uncle Weissman I had some emotional support 🙏
They forgot so many steps that are easy, like the sour cream, the lettuce, the salsa, the cheese (real cheese) etc. I guess they tried but holy fuck was that an embarrassment.
13:30 Just FYI: it's almost impossible to get queso fresco in Europe. Feta hits SOME of the same notes, so it's the closest possible substitute for queso fresco. It won't be identical, but at least it's something
This episode could have been summarized by the clip of Nellie in “The Office (US)” where Daryl jokingly befriends her and asks her to buy him Tacos and she tells the camera in a talking head interview that she hopes it doesn’t have eyeballs and when she tries to eat them she holds it to her mouth and scrapes the contents out of the Tortilla.
As a texan I laughed so hard at their mispronuciation of tortilla and pico de Gallo😂 the avocado peeling was not just a facepalm but a table flip moment
I've had authentic Mexican tacos at a lot of restaurants they are a lot more simple than Americans or UK make them. They're just corn tortillas, a meat (asada, chorizo, pastor), onions and cilantro with a squeeze of lime. And if you want to give it a kick they have pepper based salsa.
However those "meats" are complex. Also....Britain has had next to no contact with Mexico or Mexicans, the conversation (and laughs) would be had the other way if the show was in America with "Pakistani week".
@@SpecialJay Al pastor and chorizo are but carne asada? Not really. Same goes for lengua or pollo, although once we get into pork then complexity shoots back up again (we Mexicans love to be complex as hell when it comes to pork).
Not kidding I went from LAUGHING to CRYING when i saw they peeled the avocado....PEELED!!! as a mexican i can also say gracias tío josh y tío roger por la revancha
I had no idea Noel Fielding presented GBB. The man is an absolute icon and a brilliantly funny person. The Mighty Boosh has to be one of my favourite things to watch while getting stoned or drunk lol
I understand that! I'm American, not Hispanic but we do have a large Hispanic community here, and I was cringing the whole time I was watching that episode. I came into class the Monday after that episode aired and a Hispanic in my class was ranting to my professor about the British appropiating different cultures. They have done that to my native German culture before too. The Brits want to complain about us Americans being ignorant, and then turn around and do the same thing. They should just stick to Yorkshire Puddings!
Look if your going to do a week on a culture food, at least educate yourselves and the contestants. Like have some respect. I took basic cooking in HS and we got more information before doing ethnic food.
Right?! I know barely ANYTHING but even I was offended! They didn't TRY. They'd've tried for their NEIGHBORS but God forbid they so much as GOOGLE any thing about foreign nations! There is DEFINITELY at least ONE Mexican restauranter they could have called in as a guest!
honestly if the technical was that they had to make actual taco shells I would be ok with that - its not the most sexy looking technical but it would have made a certain amount of sense. This though? An abomination.
@@tatianashannon790 taco shells are used only in american tacos, not on mexican ones. Mexican tacos use soft tortillas, so they got that right. What really went wrong is the lack of simplicity by wanting to add guacamole and beans
Minute mark 4:12, letting corn masa rest gives the masa time to let the water you mixed in hydrate more proficiently. Sounds like bunk, been making tortillas a long time, grew up in texas lived in mexico, pretty much all i eat is tortillas, again sounds crazy definitely makes a big difference giving tortillas 30 ish minutes to rest. Love yalls videos always good stuff
In the guacamole portion right at the start somebody says red onion and Uncle Roger asks if in Mexican its usually white onion. In the Yucatan red onion is the standard on all sorts of things, and in many other parts of Mexico white onion is the standard. For a guacamole I actually prefer red onion over white onion. Either is perfectly fine. Just never yellow/sweet onion
I prefer guacamole with white onion, but yeah, again, it's probably because I'm more used to it. And I have always love the strong taste of the onions 😂 but at the end of the day un guacamole es un guacamole, y si está bien hecho no importa si es con cebolla roja o blanca, así mero va pa' dentro
Masa harina has a sour note from the slaked lime, so using fresh corn(especially if it was sweet corn) would cut the underlying sour note and change the flavor profile of the tortillas. It also would make them tougher because of the cellulose.
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I was as distressed watching this as the lady in the pink shirt. Thanks again for having me Uncle Roger. Can’t wait to see you soon, this time behind the chefs counter 😈
Fuiyoh see you next week uncle Joshua! 🧡
Ye mean new encounter
Love how y'all skipped the meat coated in spice and the Spanish guy who knew what part of pico de Gallo meant
Love seeing you guys together. And you look extra handsome today Joshua 🥰
Havent watched great british bake off for ages lmao, i see it has really changed 💀
As a Mexican, thank you Tio Roger for defending our culture and saying something
The Tio Rogelio always has our backs
@@LS-yu3or 🤣🤣🤣
SIGH!!!! As a white guy who grew up in San Antonio, I feel you, but for Pete's sake, these are British bakers, and likely don't have access to Mexican food. Give people a break, and they might give you one back.
@@MichaelMartin-eh6wl No excuse to be this ignorant in a world with the internet and social media and shows/movies, even a dead chimp could understand better what goes in a taco than these people lol
@@MichaelMartin-eh6wl lol bro, ur most likely to get a bunch of semi-angry replies to that comment, so its my friendly advice to delete it before somebody comes for your throat
As a Mexican all I can say is thanks for the revenge Tio Roger
el tio roger y el tio matthew son salvajes
Y tio Blanco-hombre
I though I was the only LUCKY WIENNER... ER I MEAN WINNER!! This obviously could not be a scammy scammer, right?
@@BruceWayne-mj6pt it's scam
@@BruceWayne-mj6pt 100% pure scam lol
Uncle Roger went from defending Asian culture to just any culture the British try to touch
Fr
Complaining about racism whilst being racist. Nice
@@natureboy4397 Tbf the British historically have been infamous for fking up other countries culture
TBH it looks like a Mexican food restaurant would be very popular in Britain...if the hot sauce didn't kill them.
@don't be surprised ⁰⁰⁰⁰ⁿ
You wanna know the ironic part? Mexico has a MASSIVE encyclopedia of traditional breads as well as desserts that wouldve been fun to see contestants make that fit within a BAKING show. And instead im watching a bunch of gringos struggle to make beans and peeling avocados like theyre apples. Im telling you, as a fan of the early seasons, Mary Berry would never have let this kind of nonsense continue.
They could have just had them make tres leches cake, caramel flan, empenadas, and conchas.
I don’t think a British person can technically be a Gringo.
Hey! They are british, not american, as an american, I am offended 😂
@@mintymarinara they also did a pan dulce and a tres leches cake.
Even if they needed a savory course, they could have made torta's. At least that's actually baking something.
Showed my mom this video, she laughed at the woman peeling the guacamole and said "ayy que pendeja" then she got mad and hit me. The true Mexican experience.
Peel the guacamole? xD
I'm from Eastern Europe and when I showed this to my mom she asked whether these people are mentally ill or something...
Hahahah
Assuming she hit you with the slipper
I'm German, we liked to call a dude in our friend group El pendejo, dude had no clue what it means 😂
As a Mexican, when I first watched this episode of GBB, I wanted to rend my garments-everything was so bad from pronunciation to prep! So thank you for this takedown, Uncle Roger. It brought joy to my heart.
She might redirect her anger towards you
Guacomolio
'Rend my garments'😂😂😂 what in the old testament and shakespear
Don’t click on the link above. It’s his own video, not the full video of the bake off
Guacemolo? What the heck British lady
Paul didn’t even say “pico de gallow”. He said “pico de callow”
The salsa is frightened and weak-willed.
"Jerry Gallos dead!"
@@gwennorthcutt421you mean Jerry Callow?
I'm glad somebody else had this thought 😂
As a mexican i can tell that the most impressive thing about this video is the knowledge Uncle Roger has about our food.
As he mentioned twice, doing the research is important and you can tell he did.
He said salsa goes on the side of the taco lol and adding the masa to the already made one is actually common he didn't really know much tbh
@@dealerhealer3673he's not that wrong actually. Many places and restaurants serve pico de gallo, guacamole and salsas on the side. It also depends ofc on the city you live and the type of taco you order.
he must have done a lot of research
He goes out of his way to research the traditional recipes and why each step is done. The respect he shows to each country's cookery is fantastic.
Josh breaking the act and calling Nigel by his actual name was the funniest shit.
Well yes..... but since he's white he's not allowed to make jokes about race. It could end his career. Nigel and Trevor Noah both do and with quite a lot of taste and little or no mean spirit. Even as a middle-aged white guy who don't make jokes about race I enjoy it when those who can do.
Emotional Damage
@@goffe2282 You should search Harry from the Sidemen ;p
This reminds me of the time I, a resident of Texas, studied abroad in London. We all received an email that explained things about how life would be in London and what to expect. One of the things that it said, I will never forget, was: "If, and only if, you are truly desperate for Tex-Mex, there is one restaurant in all of London that serves it. It's called The Texas Embasay. And it is not nearly as good as what you're probably used to."
💀💀💀
Most of European cuisine is not spicy at all. Especially in countries further north. I'm from Poland and people look at me all weird when I eat whole raw Cayenne Peppers, or slices of Habanero with my dinner. They say I'm going to burn a hole in my stomach, since most consider pickled jalapenos to be too hot for their taste. Well nowadays You can maybe find a couple of pizza and burger places here and there, that offer carolina reaper sauce, which is quite spicy indeed. So spicy in fact that after a couple of hours it burns after peeing for a moment.
That is hilarious with both the dry wit and accuracy of the English. Which decade was this in?
@@janesays1278 It was 2010. Guessing not much has changed in that regard?
@@Swordsman1425 no, sadly.
I like that Uncle Roger is more forgiving when it comes to the contestants confusing things like pronunciation and then roasting the judges when they mess up, because yeah, they should know better, they're supposed to be the pros. If I recall, this is also how Gordon Ramsay goes about it, he's more patient with the inexperienced chefs who genuinely want to learn and quick to tell the "I know everything, I'm an executive chef" types to piss off when they mess up. Oh, have you reacted to any Hell's Kitchen episodes? :D It would be interesting to see Uncle Roger's reactions to some of the signature dishes. :D
7:46 my wife has the soap gene. She brings it up a lot anytime we get Mexican, because I love cilantro. Eventually she decided to force me to taste test soap to understand the pain she has to experience anytime she eats cilantro.
Turns out I have the soap gene too. The soap really had that nice cilantro flavor I love
Based
Lmfao 😂
yo, same. It lets me have the soap taste without harming me by eating,, well, soap.
This is the best thing I've ever read
You know, I used to find it tasted like soap, but somehow grew out of that or something. It hasn't tasted that way for many years now.
“If you’re Mexican, don’t move to the UK. Look what they’re doing to your food.” I’VE HAD IT
I’m Guatemalan and I’m glad to not be from the UK. The tortilla was all you needed to watch to know it was gonna be shit 😭
Or do, and start a new trend of real delicious Mexican food.
@@idontknow.1514 Haiiiyaaaaa 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah. At least America gets it right (especially if you live in the southernmost parts of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California)
@@brandonriddle4381 👏 Yes I've actually thought about that when I hear/see some of the things they are eating. 🤣
If I may add to the “As a Mexican™️” input: Uncle Roger’s comment about too many spices interfering with the simplicity of Mexican cuisine is _spot on_ - much of Mexican seasoning of chicken or beef is salt, pepper, and _maybe_ lime, onion, beer, and/or a specific chile. None of my tías’ recipes use cumin or paprika or chili powder, and oregano is used as a condiment in specific circumstances.
I’m Puerto Rican so at first I was like “I’m just going to do whatever I want” but when I got to that part of the video I was like “??????????” Because never in my life could I possibly imagine saturating meat like that for TACOS
Nah, I completely disagree. Although mexican cuisine can be simple there are a lot, and I really mean A LOT, of dishes that are complex AF. Just imagine a mole, asado norteño, menudo, pozole, etc. Alv, it's like an infinite list of spices.
@@miguelmatienzoguer That’s fair. But those are specific dishes. I guess I’m referring more to the typical dishes people think of as Mexican food: asadas or carnitas for tacos, beans, guacamole, salsa, etc. The flavor profiles are _not_ the tex-mex chile powder/cumin/smoked paprika business. They are salt and maybe garlic and maaaaybe pepper/beer/lime/one tía uses orange but the other tía uses coke… Or maybe I just need people to stop using cumin so much 🤷🏻♀️🤣
@@trophybuckle3235 I was just about to say that using a ton of spices is very Tex Mex.
Cumin is my least favorite spice and hate it's smell and taste w a passion
As a full-blooded Mexican I thank you both for this video 😂 It had me laughing so damn hard lmao from Chef to Chef thank you for the amount of respect you both show to the food and all the different cultures.❤
I’m Mexican. I teared up bit, not in a good way. I can hear my Abuelita screaming in rage from beyond the grave since they started those tortillas. My mama is flinging her chanclas at the screen after looking at those beans. My papa snapped his belt in half after seeing that raw ass steak. The very soul of Mexican food is weeping bloody tears. The British invaded every corner of the world and decided that “no, we don’t like flavor. We’ll ruin every foreign dish we touch.”
All of this is true!😂
Todo México llora al ver esto, de risa y de tristeza al mismo tiempo!
lo que más me preocupa es que los tacos de los jueces ni siquiera eran tacos...
you're right about them hating flavor lol. I once saw a video where a couple made some dish and only used black pepper to season it, the woman started coughing when she tried it and she said "oh wow that has quite a kick innit?" 😂
Conquer 1/4 of the world for spices. Hate any and all flavour in your food.
The best part about this is that Paul wanted to do Mexican week because he'd just spent a bunch of time there (and did several videos for his TH-cam channel), but still couldn't pronounce things or distinguish a taco from a tortilla.
That is downright scandalous! You shouldn't go to Mexico and then learn nothing about Mexican food culture, especially if you were world-renowned chef
How do you have a Mexican week when you can't even spend 7 minutes to Google Mexican food?
Homie probably went to Cancún or Cabo
I never ate authentic mexican food because i live in an area where there are very little restaurants that offer something like that but even i know some basics from Joshua or from rick. Especially that you dont use feta instead of cotija. Ever.
@@keenman0403 You could go to a Taco Bell in Minnesota and get a more authentic Mexican experience than the food in this video.
As a Mexican™ my soul left my body when I saw the avocado peeling. I died laughing. I'm dead now.
How did you type this then...
You damned ghost!
Edit:this is the most likes I have gotten
So does that mean we can call you “el taco ghost” (I’m not trying to offend anyone)
He come bacc to live when his friends bring him the authentic mexican taco, n revive him with that.. 😹😂
Also i agree, never ever i see people peel avocado peel/skin
And this is the first time i see it..
My reactions are like "Uhh.. wait wut?" or "Wat the hecc" 😂
i am almost a pale gamer white and even i knew that was not ok
It’s a hard yet hilarious video to watch. I wanted to judge but then the cotija cheese comment made me think.. I live in northern Mexico (Coahuila) and cannot even get cotija cheese here. I have to buy some when I visit my in laws in southern Mexico. Some people here don’t even know what it is (yeah I was shocked too). the point is, if I live IN Mexico and can’t find it easily, I imagine in the UK they would find it even more difficult. The other thing is…. If you don’t know how something should be made or how it should taste it makes it very difficult to make it. When I first met my Mexican hubby I wanted to cook him some authentic Mexican food, so I bought a book, found a recipe, spent a fortune on ingredients, cooked for 6 hours and in the end I did it wrong because I used a wrong ingredient which was one of the most important. It tasted good but it was wrong. Once I began to taste real Mexican cooking, it became easier to cook it. I know there are some Mexicans who live in the UK but let’s be real, there’s not enough for probably 99% of the population to have ever tried authentic Mexican cuisine.. really the show would have been better if they brought some people from Mexico to cook and show them what a real taco taste’s like and then they try to recreate it..
Glockymolo took me all the way out I am actually crying. This is so funny. As a Mexican living in TX I couldn’t imagine eating Mexican food over there.
Eh, it's not a super common cuisine here. There's no mexican fast food, and mexican restaurants are pretty rare. Mexico's an ocean away. Most brits have only really ever had an Old El Paso fajita kit, that's our exposure to mexican food. It's just not a very common cuisine outside North America I suppose.
@@calum5975 Yeah, spot on. 'tor-till-ers' :-) I've eaten amazing corn tacos, I've yet to find an authentic Mexican restaurant/takeaway here in the UK, which is such a crying shame b/c the cuisine is so varied. I once visited a Mexican restaurant, had high hopes, my stomach was soon heading for the exit as the waitress started bringing the food out which included spicy wedges straight from Iceland lol
@@Herbie-Went-Bananas-Then-Split A big part of having a cuisine grow in any nation is having immigrants bring it over. It's why britain has so many Indian and chinese takeaways, even a Jamaican restaurants are more common.
Mexicans simply don't migrate to the UK. They have no historical connection to the British Empire unlike those others. Americans should remember this when they laugh about the lack of Mexican food in the UK. Why would the UK have mexican food, we have very few mexicans.
I'm English and I couldn't imagine eating Mexican food out here either, why would we want to when we have the best Indian cuisine in the world
@@keilow885 now I would say that m i g h t be a place with better Indian cuisine, mayhaps, India?
I’m British, and in the beginning I used to deny that we cooked like this, but as I’ve watched more and more videos like this, I’m realising that most of us really are terrible at cooking
This what you get when the British government overdid their food rationing from 1939 to _1954_ . That essentially wiped out British culinary arts until the middle 1990's, when the final UK laws based on food rationing finally ended.
There is a reason most british people prefer to eat indian curry, at least indian restaurants discovered spices exist
@Corgiiiiiii Even those pie and mash places?
Glockymolo is absolutely insane 😂
@@BeyondDaXI saw one of those on tik tok it looked horrendous 😂
As a Mexican myself, I can confirm that tortilla press is the equivalent to rice cooker. Almost everybody has one at home.
Kind of like American households and crock pots.
Dont forget the comal 😅 a press, a comal, a piloñ... Us latinos have our own culinary equipment requirements 😁👌🏽
@@cavalierliberty6838 Some also have crackpots.
Can confirm
Do yall peel an avocado?😂😂😂
My aunts and cousin have a tradition where we watch the GBBO while making Christmas cookies, and it takes place the weekend right after I’m done with finals so I sleep a lot. I woke up right in the middle of this episode so thankfully I missed the disastrous taco section, so I’ve only heard rumors from my relatives on how bad it is until now.
I know “pico de Gaulle-o” would’ve taken me out instantly.
As a Mexican, I´m offended and glad they got it wrong, tacos are simple and yet so complicated, it was interesting to see how English people understand Mexican cuisine. Great collab, more like these please.
As a British person, I'm pissed that this country doesn't have access really to good Mexican food. Such an awesome style of cuisine, and all people think of are: guacamole; chilli con carne (often done badly); and tacos (always hard shelled and with no semblance of actual taco fillings)
@@goodguykonrad3701’m sorry to say but after watching this disaster, the Brits don’t deserve nor earned the epic Mexican food experience lol.
Man, I'm from Guatemala and I felt bad for you, my neighbours. 🤣🤣 I'm glad almost no one knows from our food outside Guatemala.
bruh, we can't expect much from the people from the empire that robbed half of the world but failed to learn more than 10 recipes
Actually Tacos are really easy, Taco Bell NOT TACOS. Everything else, probably Taco!
As a Mexican I've never felt so offended, the avocado pealing destroyed my patience
Same! I have never seen anyone peel an avocado that lady must have never seen or eaten one before😭
In some sort of a defence as a brit. We unfortunately don't have Mexican food in our country, avocados are quite new to the supermarkets here. I'm lucky I've been to the states and eaten Mexican. trust me I looked the biggest fool trying to order when you don't even know what the foods are. Unfortunate as I loved the food
@FyreFly08 then that defeats the point of the show.
@fyrefly0872 no I don't watch TV I work and if I'm gonna watch something I'll stick on a Documentary. Also Why would I go looking at random country's food and culture that has no connection to me or my culture. We eat loads of Indian food here as we are intergrated like Americans and Mexicans are.I can tell you loads about Indian food and culture and there history because its what im around.Don't look to call people racist at the drop of a hat because there life involves different cultures to your own. Over 250 cultures on the planet we can't know them all.
@FyreFly08 Mexican culture and food is hardly known in Europe. You can't miss what you don't know. I'm from Germany and the most Mexican stuff available in stores is Corona beer, taco shells, tortilla chips in different flavors, artificial cheese dip and salsa that is most likely a steak sauce. Most German would guess chili con Carne is Mexican food.
as a mexican i cried every time they said galo, every time there was beans being massacred, and seeing them make "tortilas". not just seeing the grandma peel an avocado like ginger.
@slam slam basically but more like Gaio. Without the American twang at the end
Made your ancestors cry 😢
I feel your pain - An Indian who watched jamie oliver make butter chicken
My biggest question is if they even cooked the tortillas....
I'm English and it hurt every time they said things wrong
The lady peeling an avocado like a carrot, to the lack of tortilla presser, to no oil in the pan, to thinking pico de Galileo is a salsa, and the feta cheese IN A TACO sent me in tears
As a Mexican, just like Uncle Roger says they make his ancestors cry, my aztec ancestors are crying as well
I’m Puerto Rican and I’m crying for Mexicans
As someone whom is white, I cried for the Mexicans,
I’m from Central California, where we eat Mexican food not just as everyday fare, but for celebrations of all kinds. In fact, if you don’t serve it for get-togethers, people think something is wrong with you (I recommend salsa as a hangover cure, btw). I watched this show with a jaw-drop cringe. The whole show! I couldn’t believe it! Why they didn’t just stick to baking is beyond me. I would never try what they made!
My Mayan ancestors are crying as well......Glad they are not here to see this....
@@TheKukulkan Same... so bad... so, so bad...
Joshua and Roger make like a good cop bad cop combo haha
Joshua is about procedure and specifics
and uncle Roger the full comedic humor, this was great.
Accurate
Exactly
Its like rush hour dynamic duo.
I'm surprisingly pleased that Uncle Roger and Joshua Weissman have a good grasp of Mexican cooking.
Josh is from Texas and grew up with texmex I believe.
I mean Josh is American he may not eat authentic Mexican dishes but he can at least make guacamole and Pico without embarrassing himself.
Uncle Roger is a foody and he does his research.
@@terynb4407 also Joshua is a very talented professional chef so he knows not only the basics of a wide variety but also how to do research.
@@sanbilge And he understands the difference between Tex-Mex and *actual* Mexican. That's a huge issue - so many people think that Tex-Mex is Mexican cooking. Anything you see in most American restaurants, from a sit-down place to a food cart, is Tex-Mex. Same as how most "Italian" food is Americanized. Almost no authentic Italian food uses cheese, but we DOUSE our food in it here.
"Guacy-molo"!!! I started howling with laughter! 😂😂😂 I actually squirted water out of my nose! 😅
I’m Mexican American, and personally, I’ve never seen a Mexican use rare steak for tacos. It’s always fully cooked, seasoned simply yet heavily, and usually you chop the steak to small bits before you start cooking it.
No in mexico they cut the meat after its cooked
@@RONPEE-STINGER Can you actually explain to me what's wrong with doing that by the way? I feel like just stir-frying it would work perfectly fine.
@@marcusdaloia2974it would make the beef to chewy.
@@marcusdaloia2974 its easier to cut the meat
If you’re cooking the meat on the stove there shouldn’t be a problem dicing it up beforehand. Some meat markets will even sell you “taco meat” ready to cook on the stove.
If you’re going to grill a slab of fajita obviously you cut it up afterwards
Having lived in the UK for almost 2 years, and having seen their idea of “Mexican” food in the stores there, I can confirm that this is par for the course. The salsa at Sainsbury’s is a true travesty.
oh Lord, what did they do?
@@ryutheslayer123 The salsa is super sweet. It’s a level of sweetness that wouldn’t be appropriate outside of a mango salsa. Fortunately I tasted it before I added it to my taco filling. Also, I’m not surprised that they were having such a time with the tortillas; the “corn tortillas” sold over there were a texture that I’ve never encountered before or since.
You buy salsa?
@@BrazenBull91I was a full-time grad student using a shared kitchen who just wanted a taco. Yes. I tried to buy salsa. Ffs.
Yeah, I'm English mate, that's why no-one here buys salsa, but tbh most people here can't cook pasta...
I love how Joshua got so blindsided by Uncle Roger's jokes about his surname he started calling him Nigel!
🤣🤣🤣 right
Lmao Nigel fr
Texan here. I’ve made many jars of salsa, many bowls of pico, and a mountain of guacamole.
Red onion is totally fine, preferred, really.
Preferred by you
@gophermann lol 😂 I’m Mexican and I don’t play games.
Uncle Roger: "Don't be so harsh on them, Joshua. They're bakers, not chefs."
Also Uncle Roger: *roasts their tortilla-making skills by referencing their recently-deceased queen
HAHA love it, Uncle Roger! Please more collabs in the future
Grown ups love their double standards 😂
tbf with them being bakers that should be the one thing they have down-pat
the other thing is they choose oddballs to make weird TV. A bunch of mildly competent normal people is boring TV and boring reaction weedayoo.
That avocado peeling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm mexican, I told my mom about this, and she stopped everything she was doing just for seeing with her own eyes that scene.
Has she recovered from the shock? 😅😂🤣
It so cute how you two are sharing your headphones like when your trying to let your crush listen to music with you. I love it
Haha. Yea. I was like bromance is going strong between them.
*earphones
You guys have SUPERB comedic chemistry, Uncle Roger as the "funny" one whose constantly acting out and Joshua as the straight man, trying to reign him in whilst also playing along and getting his own gags in.
Perfection.
The only thing that is close to Mexican week are the costumes, such a coincidence since the beginning is a bit identical for Japanese week except the only Japanese thing is Noel saying “Konnichiwa”
Well wearing a sombrero and poncho I consider being stylish but what they did was wearing it to portray themselves Mexican kinda makes it cringe.
I died on Japanese week and now my husband dies during Mexican week. Except the Juan jokes was funny. My husband makes this kind of dad jokes all the time.
The hat is mexican, but the poncho actually comes from Peru.
@@pizzas4breakfast that hat ain't mexican at all, some indigenous people from México do use tassles on their hats but a charro/chineco hat doesn't
True. One problem though it’s pronounced ko and it sounded like he said Ka so he pronounced it かにちわ
I as a man of Mexican heritage myself, am just enjoying the British experience of them struggling to pronounce even the most basic ingredients of my culture, let alone make the dishes.
No mames gringos! 😂
What confuses me more is they say they've *never* had tacos? They've never made tacos? Like, not even as takeout, or one of those taco kits at the grocery store? Aren't tacos usually lumped in under the "american food" umbrella, with burgers, or fries, or pie?
Do they not have tacos in the UK?
@@Neopolitan-tk8tu Mexican restaurants are really not a big thing in europe, the kebap basically has that position (than mexican restaurants have in the US) over here. For example, my city of 250000 citiziens only have 1 decent mexican restaurant and is not even great for how expensive it is. And not ,the only fast food american chain that sells that kind of tex mex food is taco bell and they mostly sell burritos. London has mexican restaurants but again pretty mediocre and expensive, nothing like the real thing with very few exceptions. Madrid or Barcelona i think have better mexican restaurants.
@@lunarisita26 yeah never really been to mexican place. I see a lot of colombian and Brazilian restraunts now tho
@Neopolitan3031 Mexican food isn't really much of a thing over here. Indian food, fish and chips, Chinese and Turkish kebabs dominate.
@@Neopolitan-tk8tu Do they not have tacos in the UK?
We do have tacos, but they're not common. About 5 years ago I went to the first Taco Bell in Scotland. Most "Mexican" food we eat here is nachos, burritos, or chilli con carne.
"so humorous, I'm dying laughing, I dead now"
Finally, we heard this iconic line again after 2 years. 😭✨
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@@SuperRoo_22 The bots really have taken over. :( It keeps getting worse.
she fr said "glockymolo"😭😭
As a mexican… I cringed so much at the cooks but the worst was the avocado getting peeled
I'm Chilean and yeah... that one was a lot.
It is her first time doing it, think of it as asking someone to de-bone a fish who never fished before the results are not going to be pretty.
@@southcoastinventors6583 ok but like... deboning a fish requires someone to teach you and certain knife skills, using avocado, at least here in Chile, is something you do for supper or breakfast!! it's just jarring they do it wrong hahaha
why? does it affect the flesh or is it just cos it's not how you do it?
I'm Panamenian and I even felt the Avocado, also the tortilla as well. Damn that was hard to watch
As a Mexican man myself, I can tell you the British chefs and the judges makes me hear my ancestors cry. At least the British chef making refried beans is a bit better than jacks bean salad, which is canned beans mixed with mayonnaise, raw onions, and vinegar.
Cry first ....then seek vengeance and some fresh human sacrifices for Quetzalcoatl .... 👹👹👹
@@lilymarinovic1644 Damn lily, that took a turn…
The sad thing about this is that Paul Hollywood (one of the judges) had only recently come back from Mexico.
god what the actual fuck im rereading this and as an ecuadorian i feel the second hand embarrassment.
Bruh! I'm not even Mexican, but Cali grown. This hurt my soul lol.
The real crime in this episode was when they made the contestants try to make a tres leches cake with multiple layers and then complain when the cake was soggy... TRES LECHES IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOGGY!
Its just as sinful as those bastards in Masterchef UK saying rendang chicken should be crispy.
@@ThatchNetherfoldWHAT-
like as a singaporean this is absolutely insane
@@KalimbaKirb If you knew what happened, you know. Its not insane, its BASTARDIZED. The idiots who never did their homework yet somehow nominated as judges.
@@ThatchNetherfoldof course should be crispy in traditional British cuisine, they been fucking up all the way back,
You are mistaking this rendang from traditional Asian region 😂😂😂
No. Tres Leche is most definitely not supposed to be soggy. Lol. It should be moist and airy. If it's soggy, you done fked it up.
Oye, this is the funniest thing I've watched in months. Top tier humour from these two, what a delight and what a fortunate combination. Love you both, this was a stand up act on its own.
Put this with Spanish subtitles and every Mexican mom will die a little with these performances by British cooks
There's no need of subtitles, we know the language, at least those with the youtube recomendation of this channel
@@Isap_128 Not everyone's Spanish family knows English.
These are bakers not cooks
Props to the Scottish guy for knowing how to say pico de gallo correctly.
As someone who grew up in Texas with great Tex mex and Mexican food but now lives in Scotland, I’m afraid to inform you that many Mexican restaurants here use feta instead of cotija (which is only really available in specialty stores in major cities)
Oh no!!! Do they at least do salsa and guacamole right?
😱😱😭😭😭
Well, I think at least it’s understandable, if it’s only available in bigger cities. I don’t really see a problem with substituting, if it’s not available. Better than letting it be shipped around the world 😅
I haven't been able to find Mexican cheeses even in bigger cities 😭 is there a place in Edinburgh maybe? I know there's a Mexican grocery there but I heard they usually don't have cheeses.
And then there's the chain that is "Wahaca"
Joshua was so anxious to set things right, he called Uncle Roger, Nigel.
Didn't want the cancel culture after his ass
Never break character! Nigel can get away with anything if he does it in character
As a Brit who loves making authentic Mexican food, it is tricky to find the right ingredients as most supermarkets don’t carry cotija cheese etc - we do what we can! But this was shockingly bad lol
Try using Fresh cheese or queso oaxaca (The string chihuahua cheese is top tier too) we mainly use cotija for snacks such as chicharrones or sometimes gorditas
I had low expectations but they managed to limbo right under them. Not being able to pronounce Taco wasn't a good start.
@@Jordan-Ramses "Tak-oh" ugh.
Peeling the avocado was too brutal to watch, and the lack of any Spanish pronunciation 🤦♂️
@@mikehancho2082 Both of those parts killed me. The avocado was ridiculous but the lack of pronunciation was so freaking disrespectful
The worst part of this is that Paul actually went to Mexico for desserts and sweetbread, so he should know how to pronounce the names of the dishes properly.
Paul went to Mexico for like a week, then came back and pretended to be an expert on Mexican cuisine
@@Jergy2 average British man
Brits straight up do not learn how to pronounce things in other languages. They see how it’s spelled and then figure “this is how to say this” and that is how you wind up getting Spanish small plates when a Brit asks if you’re in the mood for “tap ass”
@@Ryanator1107 fr fr
@@theclassicalstudent sounds more like an American thing to me, most brits I’ve met have been able to speak multiple languages, which is more than can be said for over here.
2:36 “pico de gallo” I can never take Paul Hollywood seriously again
I literally gasped when that lady started peeling the avocado. Wow.
Same. I don't like avocados and I don't eat them, but I still know how to open and "peel" them. 😂
Me too! I scared my dog.
I laughed for about 5 minutes when I saw that
There's literally like 3 steps to how to peel a avocado
1. Cut in the middle till you meet the seed
2. Cut around the seed
3. Grab the peel line between the flesh of the avocado and slowly peel like a banana
And you think you know how to handle any food item in the world perfectly on first try?
As a person who lived in Mexico for 18 years, this was painful. Thank you Uncle Joshua and Uncle Roger for this. Every taco stand in Mexico salutes you. #dosdepastorporfa #emotionaldamage
I knew this was going to be bad right out the gate. They said "Mexican tacos"..... and they didn't disappoint either. She actually peeled an avocado like a potato!! Why?!
noooooo I haven't gotten to that part yet!!
"potato"
She never made them before did you bake a cake perfectly the first time you made one ?
@@southcoastinventors6583 I did extract avocado the first time correctly, yes
@@joshuawinstead7621 Just like I baked a perfect cake the first time as well.
josh and Nigel need their own show
I love how Uncle Roger always slyly tries to playfully goad everyone into possibly cancelling themselves, while saying whatever the hell he wants. 😂😂😂
Cancel culture is for losers anyway
Seeing as how he's been canceled several times, I don't think he cares lol
My mexican ancestors are crying and I am dead with them when I saw that lady peel an avocado 💀
No one uses a spatula for a tortilla
Btw…. Caucasian woman over here 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same here and I am jealous that they got birrea tacos
Then she called guacamole glockymola😂🤣💀🤦🏾♂️
I’m not even Mexican but my ancestors are crying for your ancestors.
I’m Mexican and my friend who lives in Britain sends me pictures of her food when she goes to get Mexican and those pictures make me and my abuela cry every single time. The food looks so sad :(
thats the british for you when it comes to food
@@MrNobodyMNY I knew it was gonna be bad but it still catches me off guard every time 🫢
No, dont show it to your Abuela!
It's because there is very little Mexican immigration to the UK, so there are no Abuela's in the UK teaching traditional and tasty recipes. At best the Brits and trying to piece it together from US media about Taco Bell and ingredients from the Spanish grocers, using French cooking techniques. Same in Australia, Mexican food here is sad and whitewashed (it's a little better than in the UK because we have more access to specialised ingredients and some South American immigration to teach us less westernised cooking techniques, but it's still not real Mexican)
@@AreilKnight to be fair, americans do the same with Chinese food. Most Chinese restaurants sell Americanized Chinese food just like how Taco Bell sells Americanized Mexican street food and how many restaurants sell Americanized Italian food. And if most Americans has to make these authentic foods from scratch then they wouldn't make it right since they mostly dont eat authentic foreign food.
“It’s impossible to be unhappy in a poncho” - Noel as Vince from Mighty Boosh
I’m not Mexican, but I am, Hispanic and this made my ancestors and my soul cry
Same here
Mine too
@@RebelRed lets just say cooking contests dont have a british challenge for a reason
@@RebelRed no, its called the british bake off because everyone involved is british. Barely about half the recipes are british. Masterchef isnt doing a british challenge dear.
I'm American, my wife is Greek, actually from Greece. When we went over to visit her family, her brother REALLY wanted me to make "authentic" tacos for them. Obviously, I gave it my best go, but even trying to do Americanized tacos was difficult. There are just a lot of things they don't have in Greece like sour cream, cojita cheese, certain spices like Chile powder, etc. But after that, her brother did his own research, found out some things we weren't able to teach him, and he video called us to show us his taco dinner, and it was more authentic than this British baking shows version! And he was using Greek yogurt as a substitution for sour cream! (Greek yogurt is pretty sour, and does actually do an okay stand in, depending on what you're using it for.
Here is the full Clip : when I met uncle roger
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What's really painful is this wasn't in Greece, this was in the UK where a lot of required ingredients are readily available to some extent. Sour cream, to cherry pick from you comment, is in every corner store. Decent chillies are a little harder but one of the major supermarket chains stock a decent selection of dried chillies and/or their respective flakes in their larger stores.
I absolutely stand by their being fantastic food from a massive variety of ethnicities in the UK, but this disgrace absolutely felt like we were back in the 50s in terms of taking other cuisines, and getting rid of everything important flavour (and culture) wise. Authentic Mexican food isn't super common in the UK for many reasons, but it doesn't take much looking to find decent Hispanic food in any major UK city.
That's being said, doing something along the lines of Indian/South Asian Street food would have been far far more appropriate. The availability of ingredients and knowledge of these cuisines is far more available in the UK, and offers a huge variety of baking related dishes that could have been done.
Chili powder. You really don't want Chile powder. thanks for the chuckle. I've been there.
@@dammitanothername no chili powder. And what on earth is cojita cheese?
And sour cream is not necessary. Onion, lime and cilantro with some great meat. Hopefully nice homemade salsa. That will do. edit: some pickled onion and radish would hurt
NO!!!! PORQUE 😭😭 all my ancestors are crying in their graves 😭 VIVA MEXICO CABRONES 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Ikr 💀💀💀
PLEASE make more of these together y'all are hilarious
Joshua Weissman and Uncle Roger's camaraderie is something that is rare yet very valuable at the same time. They seem to be brothers at heart.
camaraderie
Here is me clicking all bot links : 😎
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camara what?
hey I think I have met u on another video.....
Uncle Roger needs to review the episode where they made spring rolls! With pastry crust, and the size of a burrito…
No way 😭😭😭😭😭
Heeheehee 😂
What my local Asian restaurants sell burrito sized spring rolls 😭 but also the small ones
@@tulip811 our local meat ones are large too. The veg ones are small
@@tulip811 if you are American like me, GBBO spring rolls seem like what we call egg rolls, not the Vietnamese spring rolls which are served cold and can get quite large.
I'm not even Mexican, but watching how the lady cut the avocado made me and my ancestors cry (I'm Hispanic too)
I’m about as white as you can get and I still cringed. Its not hard to understand how to cut around a pit!
I'm white and I'm not very good at cooking. I still cringed. How the hell is someone's first thought when cutting/peeling an avocado to do it like THAT
@@DKdropCringing because BAKERS were told to cook something without any instructions? 🤦🏻♀️
I'm from NZ and white as it gets and even I nearly spat my drink out when I saw that...these people need to get on wikipedia at least to learn something about the rest of the world. Unfortunately with NZ being a British Dominion we got their shit food, but fortunately NZ is about as far as you can get from the UK and still have a decent life, with decent food, which is usually not British.
Edit: To my white brothers above, thank the maker that some of us are making an effort haiyaa!!! lol
@@raveninnsbruck9166 I'm not even a chef or baker of any kind and cannot cook for shit, but I still know how to cut a fricken avocado
I laughed too hard at the "Running For Dummies" joke!🤣🤣🤣
Don’t need to let it rest
This is tortilla
Not the queen 😂😂😂
Uncle Roger is brutal
What a monster ! 👍
Even the production team was laughing
@@prathikkarthikeyan6684 roast master
That old hag has a lot of resting to do
Being half Latina and growing up making and/or eating these foods, this episode nearly killed me. They also made pan dulce which comes in an insane variety of shapes and flavors but most of the contestants made conchas which seems to be the only pan dulce non-Latino people are familiar with.
Another mexican week had Flautas. They kept using "flautas" to refer to one flauta. "A good flautas..." "a flautas blah blah" like bruh, it's a flauta, the s means plural. It was so irritating. Even my very American (part german) inlaws, who've enjoyed my flautas, were cringing.
*Mexican. These are purely Mexican/MesoAmerican dishes. They have nothing do with the rest of “Latin” America. Also... Latinos are from Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and Romania. You’re going by the terms (Hispanic, and Latino) that were “misused” and then coined by the American Richard Nixon administration during the 1970s. No one in “Latin” America refers to themselves like that most of the time.
@@tlamatini4617 That’s interesting. I wasn’t aware of that because most people I know in America grow up with that terminology when referring to any country south of America. My mom’s side is from Mexico and we’ve been able to date our recorded ancestry to as far back as when California was still Mexican territory. My grandma got on a genealogy kick so we learned quite a bit.
I thought the Mexican episode was hilarious! I had thought that Mexican food was popular all over the world!
Being from the USA, where Mexican food is prolific, it was amazing to me that the Brits knew so little about it.
They only know chili con carne and Tex-Mex.
@@GullibleTarget even people who have Tex-Mex know how to pronounce pico de gallo.
Yeah... Mecican food is not that popular outside of Mexico and US. Even in the US, Mexican food is more popular in the Southwest than elsewhere, though it has changed in recent years.
@@Joetheknight406 'pee-coe de gajjo' or 'pee-coe de gayo'? I know what it is but not sure how to pronounce it. So there goes your theory😆 Must have something to do with Spanish not being as prevalent in western Europe as it is in the Americas. In my language: people pronounce the double L in 'gallo'. Plus: if we hear Spanish it is usually 'Castellano', which sounds different from the Spanish you hear in the Americas. So it's not surprising we don't know how to pronounce pico de gallo like a Mexican or 'Tejano'. I also think people would give me weird looks if I started ordering my tex Mex pronouncing the dishes like a Mexican national. "Two burrrrrritos and a side of arrrrrrrrrozzzzz, por favorrrrrrrr" when the person behind the counter is as gernanic as lederhosen or as British as two bags of crisps and a pint of lager.
'Oh! You mean Pee-coe the gallow! Eat in or take-away? Coke, Fanta or Sprite?"
😆
There's a lot of good food in Europe that Mexican food just can't compete with.
Dryer than Jaime Oliver's vegan Pad Thai pan! 😂😂😂 you are hilarious Uncle!
I showed this to my Abuela she threw her hands up and left the room and was like "This is why they colonized half the planet, because they can't cook worth shit. They need all the help they can get." 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
That's awesome!! 😂
Ever heard that joke, that they colonized everything in search of all the spices but then decided they wanted 0 flavor?
😂😂😂😂😂
I like your abuela 😁
As a British person watching this “great british bake-off” episode the 1st time around I was horrified, at least this time around I had Uncle Roger & Uncle Weissman I had some emotional support 🙏
They forgot so many steps that are easy, like the sour cream, the lettuce, the salsa, the cheese (real cheese) etc. I guess they tried but holy fuck was that an embarrassment.
@@greatleader4841 real tacos dont use sour cream
13:30 Just FYI: it's almost impossible to get queso fresco in Europe. Feta hits SOME of the same notes, so it's the closest possible substitute for queso fresco. It won't be identical, but at least it's something
I would say the best approximation to cotija would be a really aged parmesan.
@@Pyper1887 cotija? Maybe. I was talking about queso fresco though
This episode could have been summarized by the clip of Nellie in “The Office (US)” where Daryl jokingly befriends her and asks her to buy him Tacos and she tells the camera in a talking head interview that she hopes it doesn’t have eyeballs and when she tries to eat them she holds it to her mouth and scrapes the contents out of the Tortilla.
As a texan I laughed so hard at their mispronuciation of tortilla and pico de Gallo😂 the avocado peeling was not just a facepalm but a table flip moment
As a Californian I laugh at texas and tex-Mex.
@joeysausage3437 as a texan I don't give a shit what Californians has to say and am disgusted by your "burritos". I'll just buy more tortas
@@joeysausage3437don’t you fuckers put fries in your burritos? The whole “California” burrito
@@joeysausage3437as a Californian you have no right to laugh at anyone with the shape your state is in 😂
@@Nugg12what shape? sock shaped?
I've had authentic Mexican tacos at a lot of restaurants they are a lot more simple than Americans or UK make them. They're just corn tortillas, a meat (asada, chorizo, pastor), onions and cilantro with a squeeze of lime. And if you want to give it a kick they have pepper based salsa.
Yup. That’s the good stuff!
And cheese! Oaxaca is so good
@@satinsleeves
Usually once you add cheese it's considered a different product. Not lesser, but different.
However those "meats" are complex. Also....Britain has had next to no contact with Mexico or Mexicans, the conversation (and laughs) would be had the other way if the show was in America with "Pakistani week".
@@SpecialJay
Al pastor and chorizo are but carne asada? Not really. Same goes for lengua or pollo, although once we get into pork then complexity shoots back up again (we Mexicans love to be complex as hell when it comes to pork).
Not kidding I went from LAUGHING to CRYING when i saw they peeled the avocado....PEELED!!! as a mexican i can also say gracias tío josh y tío roger por la revancha
Even as an American, I cried for your ancestors 😂
Gahd, I'm really upset she peeled the avocado
I'm American with Mexican heritage... I cried with my mom and our ancestors.
You have my condolences from Spain, stay strong buddy. Sending love
I had no idea Noel Fielding presented GBB.
The man is an absolute icon and a brilliantly funny person.
The Mighty Boosh has to be one of my favourite things to watch while getting stoned or drunk lol
I saw it with my own eyes and I still can't believe someone was peeling the avocado like that
I didn't even recognize it as an avocado until the uncles said it. My eyes saw that peeling and my mind went 'guava'.
I've gotta say it: these two work great together. Love that team up so much!
As a Californian this made me cry. I’m not even Mexican and I was offended.
I understand that! I'm American, not Hispanic but we do have a large Hispanic community here, and I was cringing the whole time I was watching that episode. I came into class the Monday after that episode aired and a Hispanic in my class was ranting to my professor about the British appropiating different cultures. They have done that to my native German culture before too. The Brits want to complain about us Americans being ignorant, and then turn around and do the same thing. They should just stick to Yorkshire Puddings!
There is barely any Mexicans in the uk
Look if your going to do a week on a culture food, at least educate yourselves and the contestants. Like have some respect. I took basic cooking in HS and we got more information before doing ethnic food.
@@ノホモ Did you... did you call yourself 'no homo' in Japanese? 😂 Or is that just an unfortunate coincidence?
Right?! I know barely ANYTHING but even I was offended! They didn't TRY. They'd've tried for their NEIGHBORS but God forbid they so much as GOOGLE any thing about foreign nations! There is DEFINITELY at least ONE Mexican restauranter they could have called in as a guest!
5:37 As a british person... Im confused as well, i have never heard anyone say those 2 words together
As a British person... it's a phrase I've both heard and used many times for many years.
As a American-Mexican-Asian, I was laughing the whole thing
So you're Asian Mexican from where
Cool mixture of cultures!
@@spiritofvengeance666 they exist. In Mexico.
@@pacerfan23 you lie
@@leonrussell9607 Then you’d be surprised at the amount of pure Asian people living in Mexico that can speak pitch, tone and accent-perfect Spanish
7:32 Nephew Joshua got so nervous there that he called Nigel instead of Uncle Roger lol.
@here is the full clip Mhm sure...
Being given the title of Uncle by Uncle Roger is the greatest honor a chef can receive.
I love how Joshua is constantly trying to defend himself from uncle roger's attacks😂😂
You are now el Tio Rogelio, thank you for defending us and giving us some awesome laughs. Love the collab with Papa ❤️
Hosts: It's Mexican week, you know what that means!
Contestants/viewers: Mexican baked goods?! 😍
Hosts: No, tacos.
Contestants/viewers: Wha??? 😕
To be fair they did tres leches and traditional pastries for the other 2 categories tho nobody really knocked it out of the park
honestly if the technical was that they had to make actual taco shells I would be ok with that - its not the most sexy looking technical but it would have made a certain amount of sense. This though? An abomination.
@@tatianashannon790 taco shells are used only in american tacos, not on mexican ones. Mexican tacos use soft tortillas, so they got that right. What really went wrong is the lack of simplicity by wanting to add guacamole and beans
@@earlbinvico There's a rich tradition of fried tortillia tacos in some regions of mexico, though they are different from american tacos.
@@Tavares0709 and all of them are delicious.
I love how even the team behind the camera can be roasted too by Uncle Roger. No one is safe 😛
Tortillas are often twice cooked--once baked in a skillet, then fried in oil until crispy.
Minute mark 4:12, letting corn masa rest gives the masa time to let the water you mixed in hydrate more proficiently. Sounds like bunk, been making tortillas a long time, grew up in texas lived in mexico, pretty much all i eat is tortillas, again sounds crazy definitely makes a big difference giving tortillas 30 ish minutes to rest. Love yalls videos always good stuff
Huh, I've never let the masa rest. Gotta give it a try one of these days
guess it really values it's me time
As a Mexican - born and raised - I can tell you this weejio is truly emotional daaaamesh. 😞
In the guacamole portion right at the start somebody says red onion and Uncle Roger asks if in Mexican its usually white onion. In the Yucatan red onion is the standard on all sorts of things, and in many other parts of Mexico white onion is the standard. For a guacamole I actually prefer red onion over white onion. Either is perfectly fine. Just never yellow/sweet onion
I prefer guacamole with white onion, but yeah, again, it's probably because I'm more used to it. And I have always love the strong taste of the onions 😂 but at the end of the day un guacamole es un guacamole, y si está bien hecho no importa si es con cebolla roja o blanca, así mero va pa' dentro
4:56 Nice rock, Uncle Joshua doing good lol.
Masa harina has a sour note from the slaked lime, so using fresh corn(especially if it was sweet corn) would cut the underlying sour note and change the flavor profile of the tortillas. It also would make them tougher because of the cellulose.