Create the best flag meal

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0

• Sara makes a Canadian flag, and brings it in to the living room while singing Canada’s national anthem. The flag consists of white icing, rolled out to create the vertical white stripe, in the middle of the tray, with a maple leaf at its centre, made from strawberry laces. The red stripes on either side of the flag are made from strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and more red liquorice sweets. After tasting the flag, Alex says that the icing is very chewy, “like a real flag”. In the studio, Greg questions if the flag was really a meal, and Sara responds that it was both a starter and a dessert. She claims that’s how all Canadians eat: they eat the fruit first, then have a main meal, and then they bring the flag back for you, to eat the sweets for dessert. She earns third place.
• Al makes the Union Flag using just white rice and three bottles of food colouring (two bottles of red, and one bottle of blue). In the studio, Greg questions whether rice alone is a meal, and Al argues that it is, if you eat enough of it. He earns fourth place.
• Dave makes a Jolly Rodger flag, featuring a skull and crossbones on a black background. He uses rice coloured with squid ink to create the black background, and forms the white skull and crossbones using cauliflower, beans, noodles, and quails’ eggs. He had also ordered a bottle of champagne and, when Greg asks if there was any champagne in the meal, Dave replies, “There was some champagne in the chef.” He earns first place.
• Rob chooses to make the Japanese flag, using the empty tray itself as the white background. For the red circle in the middle, he dyes a scotch pancake red, and also covers it in tomato ketchup. Although it definitely resembles the actual Japanese flag, the contestants complain that he’d only actually made a small part of the flag with food. Greg awards him last place.
• Paul chooses to make the Mexican flag. The green vertical stripe on the left is made with green olives, the white central stripe is made with pasta shells, and the red stripe on the right is made using tomato-based pasta sauce. He attempts to draw the yellow eagle in the centre of the flag with mustard. In the studio, Greg questions whether it actually looks like the Mexican flag, and Alex suggests that it looks more like Mali’s flag. However, since the contestants didn’t necessarily have to state which flag they were making, Paul earns second place for his accidentally accurate Mali flag.