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Toy tries to fill a cup with tears

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Toy slices a lemon and squeezes the juice directly into his eye. He catches something in the cup – whether this is a tear or just lemon juice is unclear. He then realises that the tears do not need to be his own, and goes to get a bottle of white wine. He explains to Nuno that while red wines are made with tannins – the peel of the grape – white wines are made with the grape’s ‘tears’ - i.e. the first time the grape is pressed and separated from the peel; the term for the resulting mix is ‘grape must’, but Toy insists it’s called ‘tear’. Toy fills the entire cup with white wine, before tasting it and declaring that the wine was made from the ‘tears’ of the Fernao Pires grapes [endemic to Portugal]. [Note: ‘lagrima’ is the Portuguese word for ‘tear’, and ‘Lagrima’ is also a variety of white wine; again, endemic to Portugal, and presumably the one Toy uses. Toy took the more complicated route to justify using wine for the task!] In the studio, Nuno backs up Toy’s logic, reading a passage that refers to ‘tear’ as an alternate term for grape must. Vasco compliments his thinking, but declares that real tears must take precedence in this task, and awards him joint third place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)