With all of the collapsing and quitting that went on final week, you possibly can perceive why the Nice British Bake-Off contestants typically take a swig of their gateaux-destined kirsch.
But when we need to speak about boozy meals exhibits, certainly Saturday Kitchen ought to come to our thoughts first.
The present, which fits on air at 10am on (you guessed it) Saturday, often sees its friends holding a cheeky glass or two of vino.
However a listener to behind-the-scenes showbiz podcast The Relaxation Is Leisure needed to ask co-host Richard Osman, who’d appeared on the BBC present, when the consuming actually kicks off.
In spite of everything, “if there’s a rehearsal earlier than the precise present… that may be fairly a session earlier than the weekend has even begun,” the listener commented.
When do they crack open the bottle?
Richard confirmed that the present does have a rehearsal at the least for the cooks, as that half is so “technical.”
He added, “I do know they undoubtedly do drink the wine through the rehearsal as a result of after we had been consuming some crimson wine on the present I used to be on, somebody mentioned ‘this tastes so a lot better than it did earlier as a result of it’s been allowed to breathe.’”
You begin round 10, he mentioned.
Journalist Marina Hyde joked to her co-host that it’s like Christmas day, which the Thursday Homicide Membership writer agreed with.
It “doesn’t contact the edges” on the TV present, he added.
How do they keep sober sufficient to current?
Regardless that the consuming begins early, Richard careworn that “the reality is you don’t drink an terrible lot of it.”
“You don’t eat numerous the meals both,” he added.
He mentioned that Olly Smith was the wine knowledgeable on his present, and he paired a bottle with every of the 4 dishes.
“You solely have a little bit sip,” he mentioned, explaining that his wine glass was taken away from him after a sure level. “You are feeling it a tiny bit,” he mentioned.
Richard added that when he was on Sunday Brunch a number of years in the past, “they did sizzling gin cocktails at 11 within the morning. We actually knocked these again.”
“By the top of that, everybody was type of like, ‘OK, that’s fascinating…’” he revealed.
So when you’re ever after an early morning telly booze-up, it appears Sunday is a safer guess…