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Every year 'The Great British Bake Off' has at least one 'wacky' week that's slightly off kilter from the rest of the competition.

And for 2022 it was deemed that it should be 'Mexican Week', with all the stereotypes and jokes that go along with it.

I thought this was a fair if unspectacular episode of the show, with nothing really standing out to me as being amazing.

I never like it when the bakers are asked to do things that are more like cooking than baking too, for me it takes away from what makes this show different from the raft of other cookery shows that we are plagued with throughout the rest of the year.

The idea of a Mexican week challenge was intriguing, yet this episode failed to deliver what I expected. As an American living so close to Mexico I found the mispronunciations grating. I get they're British and have accents but that doesn't mean they can't use the correct pronunciation. Now that wouldn't have been so terrible if it wasn't for the show stopper challenge. It came off a bit racist, and corny. No Mexican colors, flags, or even Spanish words as decor to be seen. Instead we get a big cheesy mustache that's a bit offensive, and a cake topped with French macaroons and the word love in English. This episode just didn't work, there should have been a lot more research and the judges should have been harder critics when it came to decorations. Where was Mexico?!

The UK pretends that having a real Mexican consultant is impossible to attain. For 'Mexican' week could this show not have had an actual Mexican consultant? This reviewer would not ask for that if the incumbent judges and cast hadn't been so unqualified. One of the most disappointing qualities of this episode besides the incorrect representation of what qualifies as actual Mexican food, is the refusal to pronounce Spanish words correctly. One can rewind through the series and find that these Brits will properly pronounce French, Italian, Indian, german and Eastern European words, but go out of their way to mispronounce Spanish word as simple as guacamole, tortilla, and dulce. The contestants should not be held to the standard but it seems that the experts should be able to make a good effort to pronouncing words correctly. 'Tort-tee-yah' ... 'Dool-seh' not quite as hard as 'croissant'.