It’s startling to think it’s been more than ten years since that MasterChef mash-up about cheesecake. There they were, long-time presenters Gregg Wallace and John Torode, discussing the particulars of one of our most plodding desserts. And so it was that Gregg uttered those soon-to-be viral words, “I love the buttery biscuit base.”
The line was worked into a song, MasterChef Synesthesia. Described as a “masterpiece of editing” by one national newspaper, it managed to climb to number 37 in the UK charts and its related video — as mad as you might imagine — gained more than 10 million views on YouTube. This was undoubtedly down to the ability of its creator, the musician Swedemason, but it was roundly bolstered by a carefree trope: Gregg, then an altogether less svelte man, so often obsessed over pudding.
