Friday 7 October 2022 02:43 AM Great British Bake Off: Viewers brand Mexican Week culturally insensitive trends now

The Great British Bake Off has been branded culturally insensitive by some viewers after their Mexican Week on Tuesday.

The remaining contestants had to create a series of dishes from the Latin American country while other scenes saw presenters Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding wearing sombreros, making puns about Mexico and playing the maracas.

The episode in question which aired this week included a joke in which Noel said: 'I don't feel like we should make Mexican jokes, because people will get upset.'

Matt then responded by saying: 'Not even Juan?'

Viewers have had their say online, with one writing in response to the episode: 'I love Bake Off, but Mexican week was a mistake. Tacky jokes about Mexican stereotypes and no attempt to properly pronounce the language (from Noel/Matt). Hopefully it's a one-off.'

'Attention USA #GreatBritishBakeOff fans: Mexican week really is THAT bad,' wrote another.

'Is Mexico a real place?' is a joke that The Great British Bake Off thought would be cute during 'Mexican week',' someone else commented.

'You could have honoured an amazing culture instead of stupid racist jokes and tropes,' another wrote.

Meanwhile Professor Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, a professor of Mexican cultural studies at Washington University, told NPR after the episode aired: 'The fundamental issue is that the episode and its campaign follow a script on Mexican culture that us Mexicans, from either side of the US-Mexico border, see very frequently.

'The use of cartoonish sarapes and sombreros as props and disguises, the misidentification of Mexican food with the stuff sold in Taco Bell, the borrowing of beloved dishes like tres leches to make versions that have little recognisability to Mexicans,

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