Did you watch the Bake off?

I was so looking forward to this week’s GBBO as it was bread week and that’s Paul Hollywood’s speciality and in the past he has introduced us to some inspiring new ideas. Do you remember the 8 strand plait? Or was it 10…..? Anyway, this week the contestants first had to create 2 varieties of soda bread. Fair enough – we have a brilliant recipe that lots of you tried out and is still one of our most popular videos. But it seemed that flavour and ingredients had to be so completely unexpected that ,honestly, there wasn’t one produced that I would want to try. So, on to the second dish – the yeasted mixture – and it was bagels. OK, they are interesting as they need to be boiled before baking.. tricky at the best of times. But they were to be coloured like rainbows.Why? It’s well known that before tasting anything, we eat with our eyes. The colours were so livid, what were the colourings made of? We, as a family, have experience of rainbow coloured ice cream which had a disastrous effect on our children’s digestive system. Say no more. It seems Mr.Hollywood got himself into deep water too for not properly explaining the meaning and use of rainbows in popular culture. Anyway, how would smoked salmon and cream cheese look on those bagels? Dreadful I think. So the third challenge for the contestants was to make some kind of picture using bread. Really? Are we going to try that at home? Dear GBBO, I fear you have lost the plot.