Bingate
(UK, informal) A controversy involving a 2014 episode of The Great British Bake Off, in which a contestant threw his failed baked Alaska into a bin; the television editing misleadingly suggested that
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(UK, informal) A controversy involving a 2014 episode of The Great British Bake Off, in which a contestant threw his failed baked Alaska into a bin; the television editing misleadingly suggested that another contestant had sabotaged the dish.
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