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Great British Bake Off 2014, episode 2: Best innuendos from 'erect biscuits' to 'Pussy Galore'

Twitter goes wild for the show’s innuendos, but Mary Berry’s fondue disdain comes out on top

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Friday 15 August 2014 09:08 BST
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The innuendos in The Great British Bake just won’t stop, er, coming in this new series, and Wednesday night’s episode was no exception.

For those who didn’t watch the pun-littered show, this week’s challenge was making Florentines, before having to make a scene out of biscuits. That’s where the “erect biscuits” line came from, while contestant Richard, the builder who decided to create a Treasure Island display, was the cause for Sue to shout “Stop fiddling with your pirates!”

Mary Berry’s talk about “some of them have got a good forking” seemed to come out of nowhere, but Sue certainly decided to step it up a notch when she called Mary “Pussy Galore”, which fans of the show took to Twitter to comment on:

And let’s not forget the line from Enwezor about getting down on the ground to work out the, er, stiffness: “Typically I do it on the floor, because it gets so stiff.”

But there was one golden moment from Mary that trumped all the show’s innuendos put together. Her disdainful reaction to the bought – not made – fondant:

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