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You're the dish of the day, I'm on a dig right in
Pumpkin pie!
Ice cream!
Fried chicken, coated peanuts, fish jam, Tim Spam
Taco pizza, mash and ham, meatloaf in a strudel in a can
Covered green and no patrines, that's charcoal and butter beans
Mmm, delicious
Hang on, what is this?
This is my fake food workshop
No chance of lunch then
You guys have actually stitched me up here haven't you, they're all fake
Oh it's real, wow
No way, look at that
Meet Kerry, she's a fake food artist
And you might have seen her work without even realising
I got an enquiry from Warner Brothers and it was for the Barbie movie
They were after some ice creams, could I send out a few?
I just designed this little cone with the raspberry ripple and the raspberry in
I sent them off a few and they came back and said we loved them
Can we have a bigger order?
I had no idea that it was going to be such a big hit
All my ice cream, Ken
Alright Ken, you're on
Must be chaff
Kids went along and they came back and they said, ooh your ice cream's in the film
It was exciting
Not all Kerry's orders are quite as straightforward
We got an enquiry from Netflix, they were doing a premiere for The Gentleman
And they wanted a jelly with a gun inside the jelly
And the unique requests don't stop there
She's also covered the ceiling of a superyacht in cakes
And recreated all sorts of historical dishes
From centrepieces to stomach churning side dishes
What was that one about the croissant that looked like a, what was it, a squirrel?
So we had an enquiry about, could we make a croissant that looked like a squirrel?
Was it successful?
No, I mean we didn't, we just said no
A lot of our orders are client based
And inspiration for new pieces can come from just something quite simple
Like a trip to a baker's
Just have to walk literally around the corner to find inspiration
It's used by the film industry, the food industry, theatres
And then we have people that collect fake food
We're talking about adding to their collection
People have fake flowers in their homes, why not fake food?
Kerry's path to food fraudery actually makes a lot of sense
Pretty much all my working life has been making replicas of some sorts
I started out carving stone, I went on to make furniture
Work in stone conservation, I learned a little bit of taxidermy
And then combined that weird set of skills into making fake food
My dad was an artist, when I was a girl my playground was his workshop
From being quite young I learnt how to use saws and nail guns
And it was a magical place where anything seemed possible
I would spend every holiday with my grandma
It was just the two of us and it was set days
So Monday was wash day, Tuesday was market day
And Friday was baking for the Saturday
That was my introduction to making food
That one's given me some glare, you know
I don't know what to do now then
Are you joking?
Before a game of real or fake, time to see where the magic happens
This is a pastry case and we're just going to make some custard with jesmonite
Jesmonite is composite material, it's an acrylic stone
I'm going to try and mimic the texture of custard
Doesn't that look good?
A lot of what we do is measuring and mixing
Just like when we're making cakes
We made this by first cooking it with pastry
In a traditional raised pine mould
Bringing it back to our workshop, making this silicone mould
And then casting in jesmonite
And then we're just going to pop this open
Find a piece of jesmonite
And then we're just going to pop this open
Find, hopefully, another intact pie
Ready to paint
And then we just carefully peel back the silicone
And the lovely thing about making the original first with pastry
Is that it picks up all of the imperfections
Which, in a way, adds to the realism
The bird's foot is a resin cast
Made from an original claw that I've had in my library
Of bird's feet, always a bit stinky actually
This is what you get, and then it's all hand-painted
And then we just pop them in
Now Kerry's revealed her secrets
Can the GBS team guess if it's real or fake?
I won't touch them
Because that seems like it would be cheating
That one's got crumbs on top
So that one's quite fluffy
But that pork pie looks a bit too perfect
And it seems like it's got a little nibble in there
Which could have been added in post
I'm going to say the pork pie's fake
Oh, it's real!
I mean, it's real
So it's that one then
There you go
If I was going to pick out a real one
I think I would go for the chocolate finger
It's bourbon or chocolate finger I think are real
You never see a perfect bourbon, it just doesn't exist
So I think that's real because there's loads of cracks on it
No way, look at that
It smells real though
Is it real?
It smells like bourbon
It's not real either
I don't know what to do now then
I don't know how many fakes there are
I'm going to guess the pie ring's fake then as well
Well, okay, that's right
I'm going to just guess they're all fake at this point
That's fake
That is fake
That looks fairly real
But it's not
See, I reckon the pretzel's real
Is that real?
Real
Basically, I don't know anything about biscuits
Is what I've come to conclusion on
I think you've tricked me here
I think they're all the same
Okay, this one
I was actually going to eat that
This one could be, again, it's missing a few on the top
Are you joking?
You guys have actually stitched me up here, haven't you?
They're all fake
I think these are all fake
Is there actually a real one?
I think this one's...
No?
Well, no, I guessed that one, it was fake
No?
Oh, yeah, this one I thought was real, it's fake
This one's giving me a funny look
Hey!
Finally!
What was that?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Brilliant
Has that been handled, Lodge?
Yeah
Kerry definitely won that game
But turns out we're not the only ones falling for her tricks
In the early days, I used to love to prank my kids
So I'd leave something on the table
Like a sausage roll or a sweet treat
But they're kind of immune to it now
Or they might just walk past and go,
Can I eat that?
Disappointed toons
And not even the seagulls are safe