What do the following have in common: coconut, pineapple, breadsticks, doughnuts, apple, banana, cookies, rice, flour, eggs, watermelon, pies, tea, baked beans, potato, m&ms, cake, water, peas, corn, mayonnaise, sandwich, lemon, pancake, chocolate, grapes, ketchup, aubergine, swede?
No, they are not (yet.. hmm) the ingredients for today's dinner.
Rather, all have seen extensive use in the Taskmaster. Because screw the "No playing with food!" rule. Haha, I'd also like to see someone trying to force that one on M and the gang.
Ran out of the original UK version a while ago. Luckily there is also the US version. Right? Nope. Managed a single episode, then gave up - same tasks, same host, same language and an utterly terrible result. Right, ok, but there is also the Finnish one - D speaks the language, I might catch a word here and there, should be ok? Well... Gave up two episodes in. And switched to, drumroll, Swedish. I don't understand a word, D catches a sentence here and there (now That's a way to re-learn a language), tasks vary from completely new to modified to good old. But the thing works - unlike the US (not only was the US version boring af despite the show creator playing his own part the same way and the new TM also being spot-on, they cancelled broadcasting the original there after one episode - apparently people didn't get it), Swedes seem to have retained some intelligence, lateral thinking, creativity and a sense of humour. In addition to that, the casting of the "butler" is absolutely amazing, even though the TM is of the meh category... at least when you, you know, don't speak a word of the language.
So where do I have to apply to get this thing in Latin? For language learning purposes of course, the Duo app is fun and all but... (Yea, needed a change from Japanese for a bit, thought Latin would be random enough. I mean, could have gone for Klingon.)
Cheers,
Hedi
