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Channel 4's amateur cookery show Come Dine With Me has grown from a cult student favourite to one of the most popular shows on TV during recent years. In its new 5:30pm weekday slot (neatly positioned, just after Coach Trip), the lighthearted merriment of five contestants getting drunk and making (nearly always) disastrous dinners, has become addictive and compulsory viewing. Getting in to the spirit of the show, we've gone and bought some cheap-but-posh-sounding booze and have devised our own Come Dine With Me drinking game. Bon appetite!
Rule 1. When someone overcooks the meat, serves dinner on a cold plate, or fails to get a dish out on time, down a shot.
Rule 2. Swig from a wine bottle when someone attempts something they've never cooked before with - you'll never guess - disastrous results.
Rule 3. Down a bottle of wine when the camera lingers on an awkward menu moment when 'the dumb one' can't pronounce the name of a dish cooked by 'the posh one'.
Rule 4. If the contestants can be easily categorised in two snappy adjectives (e.g. bubbly shopworker Jan, talkative IT consultant Andy, confident events organiser Phil), then nail a pint of beer.
Rule 5. Drink a large creme de menthe when one of the contestants is a shaven-headed "confirmed bachelor", who lives alone in an immaculate home and runs a salon and/or antique shop.
Rule 6. If anyone books a singer, exotic dancers, performing monkeys, little people on stilts or topless waiters to "lighten the mood", tuck into the cherry.
Rule 7. Down a double whiskey, whenever one of the contestants gets hammered on wine and begins flirting with everyone around the table. They are nearly always last seen rolling around in the back of the taxi attempting to not vomit on the scorecards.
Rule 8. If someone serves up a dish with an "unusual twist" or a with a vital ingredient taken out and calls it 'A Surprise', start knocking back the vodka.
Rule 9. Tuck into some Baileys, if someone burns the scallops, drops an ingredient on the floor, allows their pet cat to wander around the kitchen surfaces, adds a microwaveable shop-bought ingredient. Have a second helping when narrator Dave Lamb follows up with the line, "You can find all the recipes from this weeks show at the Channel 4 website".
Rule 10. Down all your remaining drinks, whenever anything embarrassing is found in someone's bedroom/attic/living room. Usually this will be a dead animal, a disturbing collection of memorabilia or something that looks like it can only be used for sexual purposes.
This feature is intended to entertain only. Digital Spy does not advocate binge drinking.
