"Behold! It mattereth not if I should bloat like a veritable boar as thine eyes are distracted by mine ridiculous attire! Har!" I don't quite know how this has happened, but Supersizers Go... is a really good watch. I mean, Giles Coren is a smug git at the best of times and Sue Perkins, well, she veers from ace to punchable. No matter, the pair of them make for a good team in this great series and next week, The Supersizers Go... Elizabethan (BBC Two, Tuesday, 17 June, 9pm)
The title kinda gives it away, but I'll reiterate that Giles Coren and Sue Perkins will spend a week going back to the food of the Elizabethans. That's Shakespeare time to you and me. Not only will they chew the same chews but the hosts will stride the same trews too, making for a rather daft romp through history.
Cooking for the pair will be chef Paul Merrett as Coren struts around in a codpiece and pointy beard while Perkins takes up the lute. Inbetween all this, they'll chow down on a sheep head adorned with offal, another dish that bleeds all over the shop and some live frogs. There's a thin pretense of 'how healthy did our ancestors live', but that's far and away the least interesting thing about the show. Basically, it's fun because the clothes are bonkers and the food is mental. Better still, we don't have to eat eyes or whatever. This is Jackass for grown-ups.

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