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 😈
@John Weenus You must be british. You dont understand theyre not doing it correctly and thats why its funny. They colonized everybody yet they cant do anything correct. Thats funny. Youre funny for dying on this hill.
@Sigerlion if British isn’t a race. Then neither is somehere like Japan. So it’s not racist to make fun of the Japanese/Mexican/Jamaican/Indian people. Surely then? Surely this is correct?
@Sigerlion would you call me racist if I said Japanese people should have their own cooking cannibal cooking channel or a suicide advice channel due to their countries history?
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 VNclip channel), but still couldn't pronounce things or distinguish a taco from a tortilla.
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! 😂
@Neopolitan3031 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.
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?
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.
@holyshirtohfork lmao had a brain fart iirc, I think I was thinking "aguacate" (eng is obviously not my first language) and somehow that ended up being guacamole instead of avocado lol.
how can u say u mexican if u say she was peeling the guacamole 😭 if u mexican or latin@ in general n u say something like that it really makes me question u bc girrlllll wtf is “peeling guacamole” 😭😭 if u out here peeling guacamole you making it the wronnnng way 😂 (im puertorican so dont come at me for saying something like this lol)
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
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 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.
@Catherine LW believe it or not Britain has all kinds of foods not just British. Sure there is a niche for good Mexican food, but also the competition of well established cuisines is way too high and many European cuisines are on a different level compared to Mexican food and just can't compete.
@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 have a show idea: scrap together horrible cooking videos Uncle Roger would review and cry over but hasnt seen yet (plenty get uploaded each month), edit out all references to the dishes name/origin and then have Uncle Roger or other decent cooks try to figure out what dish these cooks actually try to make. Given the horrors we have seen so far there could be some real challenges in that.
Nigel, you probably won't see this but I just want to say you are a fresh breath of air to the world. The way you don't take yourself seriously and literally spread on the stereo type in such a way that it's making fun of as well as lifting up your culture is truly masterful. And the fact that so many people enjoy you let's me know that all this intolerance in the world is obviously not practiced in private. I guarantee that people who would be offended by your act in person can't get enough of you behind closed doors. Keep doing what your doing brother your going nowhere but up I promise. Peace my brother. .... excuse me Uncle. 😂
Hey Joshua. Here in Mexico we sometimes combine masa, like corn made masa and some masa harina. It’s mostly so the tortillas can get a longer shelf live
A friend was in Edinburgh for a semester and near the university they had like a burrito taco truck and the professor said "Most of you I see are from California. Do not go to that truck you'll be very upset." 😂😂😂
These episodes reviewing a wider range of food are so refreshing, glad to see more of them. Also Joshua is really enjoyable when he isn't editing videos in his usual really corny way. He's really knowledgeable and makes great points, but his usual videos are so cringe
I mean I knew it was gonna be good when they walked out in serapes and Sombreros. For a minute I thought it was a joke then I saw it was actually the opening. I was totally with Joshua on that one.
Thanks again for given me such a great time while I was watching your video, I nearly hit the ground from laughing, can’t wait for more.😂😂 They really should spend more time with research, it seems to me that Mexican food is not so common in GB, as it is here in the Rhein-Main area in Germany.
Explain this British people 😂 Mexican food is quite literally some of my favorite cuisine because it’s so many bright flavors and textures. How did y’all fail so hard?
@Michael Martin Although, just imagine the gall they had to call it Mexican despite it being as random as Jamie Oliver's Tofu Flushed Mess (egg fried rice)... its just pure sacrilege.
A million years ago I researched the history of chili to figure out how to make my own. to my great surprise and pleasure I learned a big part of the secret of chili is the time to cook it. My very first chili was vegan (meat is expensive) and I cooked it for 2 days everyone on my dorm floor loved it. Although some were super shocked when having a second bowl they realized it had no meat. And because of my research I have found that unless they are using the cheap stringy steak so call steak chili is always sub par in depth of flavor. Like the crazy chili my mom made when I was a teen that was some how so hot you cried while eating but all you could taste was tomato like it was spicy tomato soup with chunks. Nasty.
As a chili enthusiast, that last sentence hurt me. It's fine to have the heat of the chili live up to it's namesake, but TOMATO!? How much tomato was in there if that was the primary flavor other than FIRE!?
I'm white and I am offended for you. Now I am know why I am not a fan of brits, not only are they snobby with crooked teeth, they can't cook dishes from other cultures worth a damn. Got to make it out of respect for the people and culture who makes legendary cuisine from the countries they origin in. I am sorry Mexicans and Greeks. This is BS.
Muchas gracias to Tío Roger and Tío Joshua for defending Mexican food. As a Mexican your I was raging and disappointed.if it's a baking competition they could have gone with flan as a dessert.
You can make the Tortillas or buy them, I prefer the yellow tortillas. And the salsa pico de Gallo is not something that I would put in tacos. I make three types of salsas and guacamole and put on small containers and leave them for the people to put on the tacos by choice. Rábanos and cut cucumbers, and limes are put on the side to grab if you want.
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.
Cumin is one of my favourite spices so it does find its way into every Latin/Mexican dish I cook, but I absolutely agree. Just because a dish is "ethnic" doesn't mean you have to throw every single flavour that ethnicity is known for into the pan.
@Lathspell I'm Mexican too. Perhaps it's because I've cooked Indian food but Mexican food doesn't come close to requiring as many spices, and rarely toasts spices, except for mole, like Indian food does. However, Mexican food's beauty is that it packs a punch with less amount of spices than other cultures. We're just blessed with the right ingredients 😄
I tried making refried beans once, didnt work so I said "eff it looks like I'm having half fried beans instead", and while it didnt look like the bakers, it also didnt look like how it should've either
The soap gene thing amused me because I'm the only one in my family not to have it. Both my parents and my brother all taste soap. Ironically though I'm the one who likes the blandest food so I get nothing out of it LMAO
Say you’ve never eaten a taco without saying that you’ve never eaten a taco. Gonna have to say, less is better; they had no idea what they were going for. Beef street tacos; lightly fried corn tortillas made with MASA, marinated flank steak cubed small, diced white onions, chopped cilantro. Simple…
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.
I don't know what BBC was thinking when they prepared this episode. It's not that there are many restaurants in entire Europe that serve authentic Mexican food, I guess most of the contestants never even tried Mexican food and simply don't know what to do. English cooking doesn't have a good reputation anyway, but it seems they want to keep it that way.
I don't have a tortilla press but my burger press works just as well. (I bought the burger press to make tostones, not burgers. And I use it to crush garlic. And to make tortillas. ...And to press grilled cheese. And as a bacon weight. It could probably be used to press burgers too.)
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.
@Good Guy Konrad dont know if you ever would but if you somehow someday end up in America, Los Angeles to be exact, go to a resteraunt called El Barco for authentic mexican cuisine, or an alternative go to a resteraunt called The Nest in Downey and get theyre chilaquiles (though its not authentic mexican chilaquiles, as a mexican myself I give it the stamp of aproval)
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
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."
@Julian Burns Nah man, this only happened a couple of times after eating really really hot food, like a raw trinidad scorpion, or a burger with carolina reaper sauce, or a couple of habaneros in one sitting. When it burns so much that it lasts for good 15 minutes and your tongue goes numb. Tha'ts when capsaicin also gets in your pee. Dunno if that's the case for everyone, but it's certainly a real thing.
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.
I like to eat avocados. I cut them in half and scoop the “meat” out. I chuck the pit in my yard hoping a tree will grow but I live in Ohio so it’s not happening. Lol
As a Britian. I am ashamed of the "professional" TV chefs I am forced to share some land with. There's some decent ones, but it seems like all the numpties are on the tele box.
They were incorrect about the spices when it comes to Spanish authentic meat that is the bread and butter like for Birria you want cumin dried oregano paprika and salt it is always the four usually dunno why but just how it is
Feta! 😥 This was so bad! I can't believe that they even had this as a challenge. Of all the actual unique baked items they could pick they choose tacos!?!? They didn't have the time to do some of the items right either. At least they knew the tacos should be soft. Also the sample tacos weren't nice and warmed. We use foil and a little water now but when I was growing up they'd be warmed in just a little oil in the pan. Perhaps it is a regional thing and I've not been to Mexico but usually tacos are not done with refried beans and all that. Just the meat, onions, radish, and lime.
Please check out ThatDudeCanCook. He's an excellent chef and makes some fried rice that I think you'd approve of and I think he deserves the notoriety that your channel brings. Also a collaboration with him would be hilarious because you both have a great sense of humor.
I feel like every time Joshua is here, he laughs at every joke Uncle Roger makes, and I love it because I can tell he is genuinely laughing at it, and not doing it for the bit
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.
Forgot to mention: if you’re ever in Edinburgh and want not-terrible Mexican food, Viva Mexico on Cockburn St. is pretty decent. There used to be a place that stewed their own meats and made really good quesadillas, but I think they closed - I can’t find them online now.
@tempest83 Access to the internet for what? I don't understand why people keep saying this like they're doing something haha! Wouldn't exactly be looking up how to pronouce something you don't know you're going to be making haha!
I remember watching Sophie Dahl’s cooking show years ago, and she did a Mexican food episode, and did much better than you’d expect from a Brit, but still there were some cringe moments. She did explain that there really wasn’t Mexican food in England at the time, and that must have been at least a decade ago. Watching this now, I still believe that not much has changed.
I keep dieing more and more the farther I get into this...I want to hug each of those bakers and find them some authentic tacos. Those were just so sad 😔.
As a Mexican living in the state of jalisco I can safely say this made me laugh so much, half way the video got my mother facepalming to everything and me cursing like uncle Gordon Ramsey, it was magical, un momento Perfecto y bonito en la noche jajajaja xD
Let's grab a bunch of home cooks from the country that consider flour a spice, and make them do the most famous food of people that eat habaneros for breakfast. What could go wrong?
It is not hard to understand any food if you choose to do it right. Use the right tools, and use the right ingredients, then try to use the right techniques to the best of your ability. You can not make a stir fry with a slow cooker, and you can not make BBQ with a wok under normal conditions.
@RabidDogma Is that true? I follow a lot of Italian chefs (whose audience is other Italians) and they seem to use cheese a lot. So many cheese varieties are from Italy, it’d be strange if it’s uncommonly used in cooking!
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 😈
"First of, that's redundant... Mexican taco's". Well, have you ever been to France? Because French taco's are something quite different. Look it up.
This is so stupid and insulting to Tacos. The judges should be fired. These British need to stick to queen cakes.
@mrnigelng Glocky-molo, lah!
I watched this after a few weeks this video was uploaded. Didn't know you collabed with Uncle Roger
No no no no this is worst than school no i am and i know the pronounsing is bad food looks bad it is food from hell
Uncle Roger went from defending Asian culture to just any culture the British try to touch
Like a true hero
So much bots so little time
@John Weenus You must be british. You dont understand theyre not doing it correctly and thats why its funny. They colonized everybody yet they cant do anything correct. Thats funny. Youre funny for dying on this hill.
@Sigerlion if British isn’t a race. Then neither is somehere like Japan. So it’s not racist to make fun of the Japanese/Mexican/Jamaican/Indian people. Surely then? Surely this is correct?
@Sigerlion would you call me racist if I said Japanese people should have their own cooking cannibal cooking channel or a suicide advice channel due to their countries history?
Josh breaking the act and calling Nigel by his actual name was the funniest shit.
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 VNclip channel), but still couldn't pronounce things or distinguish a taco from a tortilla.
How do you have a Mexican week when you can't even spend 7 minutes to Google Mexican food?
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
Put this with Spanish subtitles and every Mexican mom will die a little with these performances by British cooks
@Isap128 Not everyone's Spanish family knows English.
There's no need of subtitles, we know the language, at least those with the youtube recomendation of this channel
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! 😂
@E yeah never really been to mexican place. I see a lot of colombian and Brazilian restraunts now tho
@Neopolitan3031 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.
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?
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.
Fr bro I was offended and I’m not even a White lady on twitter I’m Hispanic
😂😂😂😂😂
@Joey Broadway peel the guacymolo*
@holyshirtohfork lmao had a brain fart iirc, I think I was thinking "aguacate" (eng is obviously not my first language) and somehow that ended up being guacamole instead of avocado lol.
how can u say u mexican if u say she was peeling the guacamole 😭 if u mexican or latin@ in general n u say something like that it really makes me question u bc girrlllll wtf is “peeling guacamole” 😭😭 if u out here peeling guacamole you making it the wronnnng way 😂 (im puertorican so dont come at me for saying something like this lol)
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
Peeling the avocado was too brutal to watch, and the lack of any Spanish pronunciation 🤦♂️
@Minstrel Blood "Tak-oh" ugh.
I had low expectations but they managed to limbo right under them. Not being able to pronounce Taco wasn't a good start.
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
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 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.
@Catherine LW believe it or not Britain has all kinds of foods not just British. Sure there is a niche for good Mexican food, but also the competition of well established cuisines is way too high and many European cuisines are on a different level compared to Mexican food and just can't compete.
@MasterM I notice you said "Europe", not Britain. The OC was referring to Britain.
@MasterM yep ur snail, frog, and sheep intestines delicacies are super hard to compete with. Europe is renowned around the world for shit food
There's a lot of good food in Europe that Mexican food just can't compete with.
@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 laughed so hard at “they making the Mexican Ancestors cry”
As a Mexican all I can say is thanks for the revenge Tio Roger
@SoCalSaf they really didn't get the joke 😆
y Tío Josué...
Do you also eat glockymolo?
@SoCalSaf gringo
If only he has the balls to defend Chinese people being oppressed as well yeah?
Being given the title of Uncle by Uncle Roger is the greatest honor a chef can receive.
I have a show idea: scrap together horrible cooking videos Uncle Roger would review and cry over but hasnt seen yet (plenty get uploaded each month), edit out all references to the dishes name/origin and then have Uncle Roger or other decent cooks try to figure out what dish these cooks actually try to make. Given the horrors we have seen so far there could be some real challenges in that.
Nigel, you probably won't see this but I just want to say you are a fresh breath of air to the world. The way you don't take yourself seriously and literally spread on the stereo type in such a way that it's making fun of as well as lifting up your culture is truly masterful. And the fact that so many people enjoy you let's me know that all this intolerance in the world is obviously not practiced in private. I guarantee that people who would be offended by your act in person can't get enough of you behind closed doors. Keep doing what your doing brother your going nowhere but up I promise. Peace my brother. .... excuse me Uncle. 😂
Hey Joshua. Here in Mexico we sometimes combine masa, like corn made masa and some masa harina. It’s mostly so the tortillas can get a longer shelf live
But what if it's gonna get eaten an hour later?
“If you’re Mexican, don’t move to the UK. Look what they’re doing to your food.” I’VE HAD IT
@Julia Wacker In New Mexico, we have lots of restaurants that are owned by immigrants from Mexico and they are authentic. You're way off.
A friend was in Edinburgh for a semester and near the university they had like a burrito taco truck and the professor said "Most of you I see are from California. Do not go to that truck you'll be very upset." 😂😂😂
@Canais Young Take arizona off of there they suck we Texans considere that state as our enemy!
😢😢😢😢
I lived in the Uk for a while I am Mexican and ……😢 This is sooo accurate 😅
Uncle Roger and Josh Weissman is the best friendship in internet history
As a Texan who enjoys Mexican and Tex-Mex food, I’m crying at this video 😭😭 the pronunciations KILLED me!!
6:45 the way he says "pico" leads me to believe he's a Mexican undercover. 🧐
Same
It does my heart good that there is hope and Uncle Roger and Joshua is bringing it.
These episodes reviewing a wider range of food are so refreshing, glad to see more of them. Also Joshua is really enjoyable when he isn't editing videos in his usual really corny way. He's really knowledgeable and makes great points, but his usual videos are so cringe
I mean I knew it was gonna be good when they walked out in serapes and Sombreros. For a minute I thought it was a joke then I saw it was actually the opening. I was totally with Joshua on that one.
I went to a Mexican restaurant in Scotland in the early 90s. I think this is what was going on in the back.
Thanks again for given me such a great time while I was watching your video, I nearly hit the ground from laughing, can’t wait for more.😂😂 They really should spend more time with research, it seems to me that Mexican food is not so common in GB, as it is here in the Rhein-Main area in Germany.
I’m both Greek and Mexican and yes, I am very offended.
Explain this British people 😂
Mexican food is quite literally some of my favorite cuisine because it’s so many bright flavors and textures. How did y’all fail so hard?
This video came in handy. I didn't pack a lunch for work today but now I'm not hungry.
appreciating that the two of them are sharing earbuds that is a kind of friendship i envy
As a Mexican, thank you Tio Roger for defending our culture and saying something
@heisenberg waltuh
Thank you tio
It's supposed to be comedians and actors baking for the first time...
@Michael Martin good sir, you have not met the cesspool that is Twitter
@Michael Martin Although, just imagine the gall they had to call it Mexican despite it being as random as Jamie Oliver's Tofu Flushed Mess (egg fried rice)... its just pure sacrilege.
Oh my God why have I only seen uncle Roger now?? this is peak comedy 😭😂😭😂😭
LMFAO I DIED AT 10:14 guuuurll I couldn’t stop laughing 😭😭😭
How flustered he had Josh by halfway through the video 🤣🤣🤣💀💀
A million years ago I researched the history of chili to figure out how to make my own. to my great surprise and pleasure I learned a big part of the secret of chili is the time to cook it. My very first chili was vegan (meat is expensive) and I cooked it for 2 days everyone on my dorm floor loved it. Although some were super shocked when having a second bowl they realized it had no meat. And because of my research I have found that unless they are using the cheap stringy steak so call steak chili is always sub par in depth of flavor. Like the crazy chili my mom made when I was a teen that was some how so hot you cried while eating but all you could taste was tomato like it was spicy tomato soup with chunks. Nasty.
@Joetheknight406 It has been decades now and I still am puzzled by her achievement.
As a chili enthusiast, that last sentence hurt me. It's fine to have the heat of the chili live up to it's namesake, but TOMATO!? How much tomato was in there if that was the primary flavor other than FIRE!?
As a Mexican I've never felt so offended, the avocado pealing destroyed my patience
I'm white and I am offended for you. Now I am know why I am not a fan of brits, not only are they snobby with crooked teeth, they can't cook dishes from other cultures worth a damn. Got to make it out of respect for the people and culture who makes legendary cuisine from the countries they origin in. I am sorry Mexicans and Greeks. This is BS.
@cat dango Hello! lol
@HeyItsMeDaisy DIAVOLO PFP HI
Viva Mexico! Viva Zapata! Viva Pancho Via! Viva Tequila!!!!!!!!! Arriba!!!! (I love your people!!!)
@Julia Wacker yikes
Muchas gracias to Tío Roger and Tío Joshua for defending Mexican food. As a Mexican your I was raging and disappointed.if it's a baking competition they could have gone with flan as a dessert.
You can make the Tortillas or buy them, I prefer the yellow tortillas.
And the salsa pico de Gallo is not something that I would put in tacos.
I make three types of salsas and guacamole and put on small containers and leave them for the people to put on the tacos by choice.
Rábanos and cut cucumbers, and limes are put on the side to grab if you want.
Thank you for roasting them Tío Rogelio!!
From 7:10 LMAO bless him🤣🤣 Uncle Roger tryna get him cancelled
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.
Yes, but those spices are bomb and I will always use them when they work well.
If anything most tacos you use a homemade chile to add as a topping.
Cumin is one of my favourite spices so it does find its way into every Latin/Mexican dish I cook, but I absolutely agree. Just because a dish is "ethnic" doesn't mean you have to throw every single flavour that ethnicity is known for into the pan.
My Mexican parents do use cumin BUT, they use a very small amount like less than a pinch. You shouldn’t be able to smell the cumin in the meal.
@Lathspell I'm Mexican too. Perhaps it's because I've cooked Indian food but Mexican food doesn't come close to requiring as many spices, and rarely toasts spices, except for mole, like Indian food does. However, Mexican food's beauty is that it packs a punch with less amount of spices than other cultures. We're just blessed with the right ingredients 😄
I tried making refried beans once, didnt work so I said "eff it looks like I'm having half fried beans instead", and while it didnt look like the bakers, it also didnt look like how it should've either
I’m sooooo glad Oklahoma has such a good Mexican food culture. I would die without it
I’m on the road 3 weeks of the month and honestly Mexican food doesn’t exist anywhere other than Like East LA, Oakland, & the south of Chicago
@Joetheknight406 The only reason you should even go to Oklahoma is for the Mexican food culture it has.
I'll have to visit Oklahoma then!
Agreed. One of the nice things about this state. Watching this video has made given me a greater sense of appreciation for that 😂
Uncle Roger should react on Indian street food now please 🤣🤣
The soap gene thing amused me because I'm the only one in my family not to have it. Both my parents and my brother all taste soap. Ironically though I'm the one who likes the blandest food so I get nothing out of it LMAO
I love how Joshua got so blindsided by Uncle Roger's jokes about his surname he started calling him Nigel!
Lmao Nigel fr
🤣🤣🤣 right
Got something for you....💐 💐..
I sense chemistry here, can we expect auntie joshua anytime soon?
We ❤ Tio Roger!
Dude I am shaking my head hard 😩I am Mexican
Say you’ve never eaten a taco without saying that you’ve never eaten a taco. Gonna have to say, less is better; they had no idea what they were going for. Beef street tacos; lightly fried corn tortillas made with MASA, marinated flank steak cubed small, diced white onions, chopped cilantro. Simple…
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.
I cringed so hard watching that episode and I’m not anywhere close to being Mexican.
Apparently closer than those poor Brits tho.
@miss mary whats wrong with that
I don't know what BBC was thinking when they prepared this episode. It's not that there are many restaurants in entire Europe that serve authentic Mexican food, I guess most of the contestants never even tried Mexican food and simply don't know what to do.
English cooking doesn't have a good reputation anyway, but it seems they want to keep it that way.
Oh you dont like Gyokimojo ?
@ZoeAlleyne this is the issue 😭 they aren't cooks they are BAKERS I'm not surprised at how bad they all did LOL
Uncle Roger videos are my MSG….
I don't have a tortilla press but my burger press works just as well. (I bought the burger press to make tostones, not burgers. And I use it to crush garlic. And to make tortillas. ...And to press grilled cheese. And as a bacon weight. It could probably be used to press burgers too.)
Big fan from India bro you are funny 🤣
"SMOOTH AND CHUNKY"
Tio Roger: "SORRY CHILDREN!".🤣😂
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.
@Evil Queen 93 hypocrite lmao
Are you implying that all the people on this show are English, because I heard at least one Scottish accent!
People are taking this too serious
@Good Guy Konrad dont know if you ever would but if you somehow someday end up in America, Los Angeles to be exact, go to a resteraunt called El Barco for authentic mexican cuisine, or an alternative go to a resteraunt called The Nest in Downey and get theyre chilaquiles (though its not authentic mexican chilaquiles, as a mexican myself I give it the stamp of aproval)
@srtghfnbfg 🤣🤣🤣
Hey, when I was in Japan the only Mexican restaurant in the city advertised VIENNA SAUSAGE TACOS. Every country can royally mess shit up XD
EAUGH!
Thank you for your protecting us Mexicans, Tio Roger
"Don't need to let it rest.
This tortilla, not the queen" 💀
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
yo, same. It lets me have the soap taste without harming me by eating,, well, soap.
Lmfao 😂
Based
The theme music when you said "sorry children" had me CACKLING!! I y k y k
After all that, you don't finish the video by letting us see the judges tasting all of it?!
@2:23 "British people making Mexican food? i would be scared, also!"
😁😁😁
Never before has a video activated every rage fiber in my very soul. My ancestors are insulted by the cooking and pronunciation.
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."
@Julian Burns Nah man, this only happened a couple of times after eating really really hot food, like a raw trinidad scorpion, or a burger with carolina reaper sauce, or a couple of habaneros in one sitting. When it burns so much that it lasts for good 15 minutes and your tongue goes numb. Tha'ts when capsaicin also gets in your pee. Dunno if that's the case for everyone, but it's certainly a real thing.
@Szcz00r that sounds like the clap man
@Swordsman1425 no, sadly.
@JaneSays It was 2010. Guessing not much has changed in that regard?
That is hilarious with both the dry wit and accuracy of the English. Which decade was this in?
Can you try and review african food,like jollof rice ,if you can't its ok BTW I love your channel
It's rare for a brit to do non-european food well.
Oh my the pronunciation of taco and tortilla was just filling me with so much sadness they're not that hard to say
"I feel sad; I feel scared; I feel angry"
Yes, and yes
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.
Its like rush hour dynamic duo.
Exactly
Accurate
I like to eat avocados. I cut them in half and scoop the “meat” out. I chuck the pit in my yard hoping a tree will grow but I live in Ohio so it’s not happening. Lol
As a Britian. I am ashamed of the "professional" TV chefs I am forced to share some land with. There's some decent ones, but it seems like all the numpties are on the tele box.
I swear if anyone had actually made any proper Mexican food they would have been kicked off for it being wrong
They were incorrect about the spices when it comes to Spanish authentic meat that is the bread and butter like for Birria you want cumin dried oregano paprika and salt it is always the four usually dunno why but just how it is
Joshua was so anxious to set things right, he called Uncle Roger, Nigel.
Never break character! Nigel can get away with anything if he does it in character
Didn't want the cancel culture after his ass
3:15 I'm dead!🤣🤣🤣
Feta! 😥 This was so bad! I can't believe that they even had this as a challenge. Of all the actual unique baked items they could pick they choose tacos!?!? They didn't have the time to do some of the items right either. At least they knew the tacos should be soft. Also the sample tacos weren't nice and warmed. We use foil and a little water now but when I was growing up they'd be warmed in just a little oil in the pan. Perhaps it is a regional thing and I've not been to Mexico but usually tacos are not done with refried beans and all that. Just the meat, onions, radish, and lime.
I'm embraced to be British 😔
You think he’s ever seen the cheeseburger fried rice from Triple D?
Hosts: It's Mexican week, you know what that means!
Contestants/viewers: Mexican baked goods?! 😍
Hosts: No, tacos.
Contestants/viewers: Wha??? 😕
Not "Wha???".
It's "U w0t m8?"
@Flustered _Potato although that is more Spanish than anything. I would have accepted some pan dulce.
They could've done churros with filling or something.
@Dm_Tellgrem👉SpecialEdd01 kus
@Tavares and all of them are delicious.
That’s British Humor lol, you should’ve listened to my German manager making xenophobic jokes during all hands haha
wasn’t as bad as I expected tbf😂
Please review Thai green curry by chef Sanjyot Keer. Hope he'll not disappoint you Uncle Roger.
Please check out ThatDudeCanCook. He's an excellent chef and makes some fried rice that I think you'd approve of and I think he deserves the notoriety that your channel brings. Also a collaboration with him would be hilarious because you both have a great sense of humor.
It's such a mess that uncle Roger breaking off character for several times. Lol
I feel like every time Joshua is here, he laughs at every joke Uncle Roger makes, and I love it because I can tell he is genuinely laughing at it, and not doing it for the bit
what you need to understand is that it is the Englishman's prerogative to change the pronunciation of any non-English word that he pleases.
Uncle Roger for your next weejo please do review on uncle Joshua pho. I already see so many steps he done wrong already haiyaa 🤦♂
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.
Forgot to mention: if you’re ever in Edinburgh and want not-terrible Mexican food, Viva Mexico on Cockburn St. is pretty decent. There used to be a place that stewed their own meats and made really good quesadillas, but I think they closed - I can’t find them online now.
@tempest83 Access to the internet for what? I don't understand why people keep saying this like they're doing something haha! Wouldn't exactly be looking up how to pronouce something you don't know you're going to be making haha!
@22martinez1 lamb korma with garlic naan & pilau rice 😍
@Rebel Red oh yeah I like Indian food I could go for a masala chai and butter chicken with naan.
I remember watching Sophie Dahl’s cooking show years ago, and she did a Mexican food episode, and did much better than you’d expect from a Brit, but still there were some cringe moments. She did explain that there really wasn’t Mexican food in England at the time, and that must have been at least a decade ago. Watching this now, I still believe that not much has changed.
I feel like the more Uncle Roger I watch the funnier his personality breaks get! 😂😂😂
I hope they get Moctezuma,s revenge, I’ll cry myself to sleep now.
I keep dieing more and more the farther I get into this...I want to hug each of those bakers and find them some authentic tacos. Those were just so sad 😔.
thanks for roasting brits. big love. hope they do some research next time.
hello uncle, any chances on making fried rice like pak li kopitiam nasi goreng kampung in the future?
As a Mexican living in the state of jalisco I can safely say this made me laugh so much, half way the video got my mother facepalming to everything and me cursing like uncle Gordon Ramsey, it was magical, un momento Perfecto y bonito en la noche jajajaja xD
Let's grab a bunch of home cooks from the country that consider flour a spice, and make them do the most famous food of people that eat habaneros for breakfast.
What could go wrong?
Please please please get Eddie Haung on your channel and do a collab 😁😁😁😁
I'm surprisingly pleased that Uncle Roger and Joshua Weissman have a good grasp of Mexican cooking.
It is not hard to understand any food if you choose to do it right. Use the right tools, and use the right ingredients, then try to use the right techniques to the best of your ability. You can not make a stir fry with a slow cooker, and you can not make BBQ with a wok under normal conditions.
@Jonathan Davis I am aware how Texas is like lol. Dad lived there all my life but he's never had authentic Mexican food just tex mex
@Teryn B Texas is dominantly Mexican dude. It’s right up his alley
@RabidDogma Is that true? I follow a lot of Italian chefs (whose audience is other Italians) and they seem to use cheese a lot. So many cheese varieties are from Italy, it’d be strange if it’s uncommonly used in cooking!
@RabidDogma great point
Cilantro tastes like soap? You can tell these people can't cook 🤣🤣🤣
Uncle roger pls do how to make adobo pls!
Uncle roger is like "Chow" on hangover but msgfied.