Britany Wagoner

Holiday Baking Championship. Holiday. This has annoyed me every since the first season of this show the word "Holiday" in the Baking Championship name it means more then just Christmas but do you know what for the past Seven (7) and likely to be eight (8) season is all about Christmas! and one pre-heat about Hanukkah which will likely be a challenge about jelly doughnuts. They air the "Holiday" Baking Championship during November to December so there is a celebration about thanksgiving but the entire promotion, ads and desserts they make on this show is Christmas themed so the celebration there mostly suppose to be about is not Thanksgiving it's the "Holidays" which is just Christmas and luckily one (1) pre-heat about a different holiday and this annoys me so badly. During the actual winter month THERE IS MORE HOLIDAYS THEN JUST CHRISTMAS!! let me just name a few Kwanzaa, Winter solstice (the real holiday), Las Posadas, Dongzhi, Hogmanay, Chinese new year and do you know how hard it is to find recipes for any of these holidays? it is easy example Kwanzaa has coconut cake Winter Solstice has rice balls and so does Dongzhi and Hogmanay has a traditional Scottish Cranachan. These sound like very yummy type of deserts the bakers/consents could be asked to bake with Jessie having a simple explanation as to what it is but will they? NO! I'm sick of just having Thanksgiving, one pre-heat of Hanukkah and Christmas be the only celebration on a show that is literally named "Holiday baking Championship" I get that some of these holidays are celebrated for multiple days and or are later in December (as in they come after Christmas) but it is alright to celebrate at least 1 day of it Hanukkah is an eight (8) day celebration and the show does not do an entire eight (8) days of it so why won't they celebrate other holidays? people do not say Merry Christmas most of the time anymore because during winter/December there are other holidays then just Christmas but there is more then just 2 of them. Do not try telling me that "it's an American show they only do American desserts" this year for the Spring Baking Championship (season 7) they celebrated Holi a Hindu celebration and again for Halloween Baking Championship (season 7) they made a British cake called a Battenberg so if they can do that on the other shows then yes they can do non-American desserts and celebrations for a show literally built around Christmas when the point is "Holiday" Or did Food network decide "well, If we call it the Christmas Baking Championship the backlash from people/viewers/fans who celebrate other celebrations will be too much so call it Holiday to keep people happy" There are literal episodes during interviews with consents who say the holiday colors are red and green which is the main colors of Christmas and the majority of any desserts made through season one (1) through current season seven (7) look like a Christmas dessert unless it was the Fall/Thanksgiving and Hanukkah episode. Did nobody ever watch this show and realize any of that?

For season 11 they removed the pumpkin patch which caused the pumpkin carvers to be removed which was likely caused by coronavirus/covid-19 it was clear they had filmed season 10 before the virus had became really bad which allowed them to film like normal however the same year Halloween Baking Championship was changed too because of the virus. They filmed season 10 Halloween Wars before that season of Halloween Baking Championship although they aired the same October and year. The problem with this year. It is a blunt Discover+ and Ghost adventures ad without saying "we are an ad" Zack would have made a lovely replacement for Jonathan this year (season 11) if Food network was not set on making season 11 a blunt ad for Discover+ they only let Zack appear on screen for 5 seconds to tell the challenge, time and cringe jokes that make the consents go "HOW DID HE KNOW! THAT'S SO CREEPY!!" when in reality the consents likely was asked about haunted experience during the casting because it's a Halloween show jokes about haunted and ghosts is the entire point. Shinmin Li is basically the real host and even then it's a mess. I have personality watched many baking/wars shows and none of them have the host or judges go up to a team and or contests and tell them "here how you fix that" why? BECAUSE THAT IS NOT FAIR! YOU ARE HANDING AN ADVANTAGE THEY DID NOT DESERVE and Season 11 they ignored that and every time a team is in serious trouble example the rice Krispy head of a ghost girl was falling off Li came over told them used chicken wire or regular wire and wrap it around the head because the krispy will keep falling if they re-attach in the same place. I sound like I'm making that up but no it's real go watch the section Season 11 do not in the basement episode yourself and see it. The judges who in production casted Aari and Eddie???? please I would like to honestly know because when I think of Halloween judges my mind does not go to Aari who loves spice and Eddie who wears ugly sweaters and judges cookies during Christmas!! (real show Eddie is on) they could have had past guest judges making up the other judges it would have been nice and something Halloween Wars fans have really been waiting for. My problems with Eddie do not end there during one episode in a section where he's sitting with Aari and Li he flat out says "I was raised in a very religious household" and Aari doing damage control says "no no we are not going there" and laughs. Eddie you are on a show that is called "Halloween Wars" a show that is based on Halloween aka blood, guts, gore, creepy, haunted, nightmare defining stuff in the form of cake, sugar and used to be pumpkin this is not the show where you speak about your religion, effects of religion or anything about it UNLESS religion is part of a reason why you cannot eat a certain ingredient. Eddie I did not come to watch a show about your religion what I came for is to watch a cake build a black and white version of virgin mary be built out of cake with blood coming from her eyes and hands made out of sugar and gelatin and maybe a pumpkin bloody halo above her head why? because it's Halloween Wars. Both Aari and Eddie version of "scary/creepy" would be a cute looking grandmother sitting in a chair knitting with an actual rat which is similar to an actual thing someone made it was not "scary/creepy" and did not even fit the challenge and did not fit what the team even said the grandmother was.