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The Great Canadian Baking Show Is a Pile of Wet Dough

The CBC promised a homemade alternative to The Great British Bake Off. The show we got has nothing meaningful to say about the country

In order to differentiate itself from the British version, it often reaches for kitsch. The first season’s “Canada Week” was especially egregious. When one of the hosts announced the technical challenge—maple cream sandwiched between two maple-leaf cookies—she declared that “the only thing more Canadian than that is if Céline Dion rode in on a moose drinking a brewski!” But there is, in fact, one thing more Canadian than that, which the camera immediately cut to—a scathing polite chuckle.

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- A boring straight man with the personality equivalent to stale white bread

- The sweetest little old lady that you would die for

- A university student trying their best

-POC who destroys the judges’ tongues with dishes of a normal fucking spice level, Paul

- ✨Disaster gay✨

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A showstopper challenge here is to bake a birthday cake, none of this *a personal reflection on the Dialectic within Hegelianism, but make it a meringue* nonsense!!

The hosts seem to be genuinely into baked goods and are constantly trying everything the contestants are making. They are also around during the judging and try whatever they want, they just can make a comment and its so so heartwarming to see how much this is about eating food and how little it is about anything else.