Bloody hell! I stumbled on a television gem! The Supersizers Go… presented by journalist and restaurant critic Giles Coren and comedian Sue Perkins, (which I really thought was a married couple at first) and watch them as they go through each diet of a specific era prepared by a specialist chef for delicacy authenticity and see them squirm or light up with delight. And on the end, find out if they were bad or healthy for them after a week of immersion.

I couldn’t even bring myself to google them while watching it because it was just way too funny (and very informative) to miss a few seconds of it.

Mock sausages which were 3% meat, salty SPAM, crunchy loo paper, mock crab, mock duck (made from sausages), mock apricot pie (made from carrots and plum jam), mock coffee, cake made with paraffin (instead of lard) and that pink gelatin dessert were just some of the food they had to stomach while immersing themselves to the wartime era. Filled with bits of crazier antics like using beet juice for lipstick, painting gravy on the legs as stockings, really gnawing grass from outside straight from the ground, smuggling bananas from the canteen and swimming on bed as past time. It is just top-notch telly programming. See that? LOL

If that first episode is anything but an hour worth of peek on what is coming on the next few episodes, then I am all in.

Photo from BBC