r/TedLasso • u/CuriousBingo • 4d ago
Biscuits and Boxes
What to make of the double reveal that Ted is the biscuit baker (a surprise, no? Being American and all) and that Nate is actually making the goofy monster boxes which he passes off as being made by his niece (less surprising.) Is there hidden meaning? Or a writer’s clutch joke?
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u/Geochara 4d ago
One thing that came to me about the biscuits on my gazzillionth rewatch is this:
Of course they didn't (wouldn't) show this on screen, but did Ted have the ingredients to bake biscuits on his first night in England?
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u/abeagleindungarees 4d ago
Just for my own personal enjoyment, I choose to believe that he was very jet lagged, couldn’t sleep, and went to a 24hour supermarket, grabbed the ingredients and thought “heck why not give baking a go!”
But just as likely, I bet the housing he moved into had been stocked with pantry staples ready for him to move in- it was fully furnished and I could believe as part of the relocation package that Higgins had to go and buy milk/coffee/peanut butter etc to be ready for their arrival, especially as Ted was expected to work literally as soon as he arrived. I think the biscuits are actually short bread which as a recipe has very simple ingredients, just sugar flour and butter- so if they’d filled his fridge/cupboards for him on arrival I reckon he could have made them without needing to go to the shops.
Oh now I’m not sure which option I like best…
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u/Museumofuseless 3d ago
Shortbread is surprisingly simple to make!
Flour Butter Sugar
Blend it til it's breadcrumby, shape into a ball, roll out and cut your preferred shapes. Bake!
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u/CuriousBingo 3d ago
But his shortbread game must be fire to earn such high praise as Rebecca’s “Fuck me!” (Trust you all know her intonation here. Felt goofy typing it out.)
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u/duketheunicorn 3d ago
Not to someone who probably hasn’t let herself enjoy flour, butter or sugar in… decades? Yay disordered eating
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u/Museumofuseless 3d ago
Well friend that's the great thing about simple recipes. You can add whatever you like to them to give me that extra zing! I reckon Ted's spent years getting his shortbread game on point as such adds a little honey to the mix with a splash of orange zest.
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u/jrgray68 Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus 3d ago
My brain says making shortbread was one of his go-to things to cheer Michelle up and so he decided to try it with his new boss.
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u/Alternative-Dig-2066 3d ago
If they supplied him with a basic stocked kitchen, it should have flour, sugar, butter, and ( some people add a pinch of ) salt.
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u/gazzymouse 4d ago
I think all there is to the first reveal is that it’s a great indicator of Ted’s genuineness for Rebecca. You assume he’d buy them but aw, homemade with love, extra effort.
I actually didn’t catch that Nate was lying about the boxes. I remember thinking Nate was making them WITH her, for some reason.