eating cake for breakfast

after falling off the wagon for a season or two, watching the current season of the great british bakeoff, a lily gilded by the giddy silliness of noel field and matt lucas

the beckettian minimalism of technical challenge recipes

the way the show completely dispenses with the conventional reality tv false drama around narrowing down who the winner and loser will be, which is such a waste of space and does nothing but psychological harm to both contestant and audience

paul's critique of one of the bakers' cakes, which included polenta (!) in the dough, which was: "it was like eating a lemon drizzle cake in a sandstorm"

for some reason that comment made me think of "GARLIC," maybe my favorite episode of call chelsea peretti, in which she performs as angie martinez for most of the episode and then is joined halfway through by her partner jordan peele playing iyanla vanzant and there's a moment where jordan as iyanla is riffing about burning sage, garlic, and cloves as an aromatherapy and chelsea starts laughing and says "YOU BURN GARLIC?" 

other great guest episodes from call chelsea peretti's backlog: adam scott (my introduction to the show), nick kroll, nick kroll and john mulaney, gabe liedman and jenny slate, yassir lester, mike schur, tim heidecker, pete holmes, moshe kasher, richard marx, harris wittels (<3)