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Originally Posted by slanche
Brother going home for the same mistake as last time is shocking.
I honestly did not see this coming, there were some great red herrings in this episode to distract me.
So rarely people go home for deviating a bit too far from the challenge. There have been contestants who cooked their niche style of cuisine for almost the whole season and found a BS explanation why their dish applied to the guideline and never went home.
Now Brother did it twice.
True although in this case it seems his food tasted terrible also. Had he ignored the challenge and made a good dish, he probably skates through, since there were 2 other really bad dishes.
Obviously making a dish inspired by a cocktail, leaves a lot of leeway. Eric was the winner, and he made oysters because... they used to drink the cocktail while at sea? Ok I guess. That's pretty flimsy... but then so are most of the connections in these "inspired by" challenges. Judges care more about the food than whatever story they come up with to connect the food to the challenge.