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I'm not sure if this is the thread that we've discussed "Masterchef" before (it probably is!). I've generally watched it before, but I don't think I'll watch it again, after tonight's travesty. To start with, one chef served grilled radicchio. The chef and all five of the judges mispronounced this as - not sure how to show the difference in English - "radichio", and even spelled it on the "menu" as "radiccio", whereas in Italian it is "radickio", then they all raved about a pork dish served still bleeding in the middle - NO! Pork must be cooked through, as it can carry all sorts of parasites that find humans a great alternative.

They're all idiots!

Hi, Rusty!
Lay-ey? I think you've made that up!
It's an expressive word, though!
It will be good when Lassie does lay some eggs.
I used to like watching "Fifteen to One" too. My Scottish cousin took part in an episode of that!
I have been reading in my new TV guide about the coming series of BGT.
Apparently, among the various acts, there are to be a dancing polar bear, a one man band on stilts, and the world's fastest tortoise!
I wonder how they prove that last one???



Oh dear, Chris!
This is a programme that I have never watched, so I am afraid that I do not know very much about it operates?
But I have noticed various spelling mistakes in using foreign words on menus in restaurants, so I suppose it isn't all that surprising to find mispronunciations, too.
I myself though wouldn't have a clue as to how to pronounce the word "radicchio".
You would expect though that there would be an "expert" on hand to check out all these words before the commencement of the programme ?
I think these days that it is considered perfectly 'safe' to eat pork slightly pink in the middle, although I'd agree it shouldn't still be "bleeding"!
Mind you, having said that, I prefer my pork reasonably well-done! (altho' I eat my steak 'rare'!)

Hello, Elle!
Yes, I think I shall patent "lay-ey".
There is a singing dog appearing, too!
A real polar bear?
I would be very wary of it.
These creatures can eat you!
I am looking forward to BGT.
Some great acts and some horrors.
That's entertainment!
I saw a flashmob doing "Ode to Joy" in a square somewhere in Europe. It was great!
I have a wee bet on Rickie Fowler to win the Masters golf.
He has just had a hole in one in the Par 3 competition!
The crowd loved it!

Hi elle
Thanks for your sympathy!
C followed by H is always hard in Italian - for example bruschetta is usually mispronounced in England as "brushetta" when in Italy it is "brusketta".

When I don't know how to pronounce a word in English, I pronounce it in Italian - the latter is far more consistent!

I agree about the meat on Masterchef, chrise. I wouldn't eat any of the lamb, venison or beef they always say is "perfectly" cooked. I thought it was only tapeworms you can get from pork? In Germany it is eaten raw sometimes but every single pig is inspected. I still didn't have any.
The older I get the less meat I eat.
Why would anyone grill radicchio? Sorry if I have mispronounced that! Not going back to see!
I won't bother watching the bake-off with posh pastry chefs again, either. The question is not why its done well, but why it's done at all.

Hi Rusty
Apparently the previous record for holes-in-one on the par three comp is 5 - as I go to bed, this year it stands at nine (including one by the eighty-year old Gary Player!)

PS rusty

We used clarty to mean dirty in Birkenhead, too. I think it's a Northern expression

Hi rosalind
I think there is a theory that we are "more closely related" to pigs, so have more parasites in common (tapeworms being the most obvious, but also liver flukes, amongst others). Beef and lamb aren't as risky served pink; venison, though, would be inedible!

I know "clarty" too, but not sure if it dates to after I moved to the north (or at least, knew northerners).

chris last week on Masterchef someone served venison that looked raw to me. It was described as perfect. They are bonkers.
My uncle lived for many years with a pig's heart valve in his heart.