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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dylan B Jones

Come Dine With Me at 20: 100 of its funniest tropes – from ‘I hate lamb’ to ‘How old do you think I am?’

Come Dine With Me guest Farida from Wolverhampton awards a 1 score
Another disappointed diner … Farida from Wolverhampton rates her evening. Photograph: Channel 4

Bubbling away in its 20th year, Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me is one of the most delicious reality shows ever created.

Five (or sometimes four) contestants each make a three-course meal for the others over the course of a week, for the chance to win £1,000. Each meal is hosted at a contestant’s house, where wine is drunk, bedside drawers are snooped through, ill-advised party games are concocted and hilarity ensues. Then, in the cab home, the diners rate the meal out of 10.

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