Following in the footsteps of his seafaring predecessors in the Plymouth Company and London Company, Paul Hollywood journeyed to North America, tasted the fruit of the land, and announced, "Yeah, OK, I am now an expert in this."
And lo, in the tradition of the shocked people who received those uninvited English travelers hundreds of years ago and wondered what in the heck they thought they were doing, the North American audiences of "The Great British Baking Show" have generally reacted to his declaration of expertise with statements along the lines of, "Oh, hell no."
