This drove me to scream at my TV last night

Why was this not addressed?

because in the grander scheme of things it was a minor blip in what was clearly the performance of the better team?

Because truth and history has no place in modern society?

I doubt it's in their remit to point out the stupidity of the candidates, otherwise no task would get completed

So they were allowed to get away with being factually incorrect?

I expected this to at least be pointed out... Alas I cried "fix" so loudly my cat got frightened!

Because they didn't know either?

yes, being factually incorrect was a much lesser crime than being operationally inept.

We have a winner!

I think you may be right mr monkey!

Are you Helen? or Tom?

It was only the name of a pie at the end of the day.

Mexican restaurant named after the capital city of Vebezuala, only because Ji9m couldn't remember the right name for those shaky things????

considering I'd never put myself forward for such a degrading show full of, predominantly, morons, nope, I am neither.

fun to watch though.

Castanets? Or Maracas?

I just thought as Jim's ineptitude was highlighted, in the interest of fairness, team Helen's mistake would have been touched upon!

The mistake was so glaringly obvious I can only think it would be very petty on the part of any of the experts to point it out when they had such an excellent brand and service.

Surely Nick could have stepped in before they went to the printers.
I always thought he was Spanish until I now realise he was born in Italy.

It was probably addressed in the boardroom or pitch but didn't make final edit, it was too good a joke for LS not to have made something out of it! ....

I'm sure Lord Sugar would have taken them to task over it, HAD they lost!

Apparently, it has recently come to light that Christopher "Potatoes"Columbus, William "Francis" Drake, William "Bacon" Shakespeare and Lord "Veggie" Byron all used to hang out together up Cheapside Way. Seemingly they used to go on prodigious tavern crawls and invariably end up unconscious and horizontal in some city gutter - for which reason they were known as "the Flatpack".

Or because they didn't care. I doubt real customers would care much, if the food was good.

Intriguing. *rubs chin* Could they be the true murderers of Christopher "Marrow" Marlowe in Deptford?

Thats what i think too, or they didnt pick up on it.

Quite a few people seem to think CC was British, or Spanish, or Portuguese

Boobies?

Nick did pick it up.

Personally I was more bothered about the stupid apostrophe in caraca's (sic)

People get Columbus confused with John Cabot and Richard Amerike because of murky history, or just because of their ignorance. The British founded America on purpose. Columbus was just a wandering lost fool. OK, perhaps a bit harsh, but he certainly isn't the greatest explorer ever like some think he was.

Education in Britain is sadly quite lacklustre and you don't learn the following story in school ....

John Cabot ended up mapping out Canadian coastlines and was the second Europeaner to discover the new world. At the time he lived in Bristol, UK, even though he was italian born.

However he was just a simple explorer, his crazy plans needed funding, so in stepped Richard Amerike, a British born businessman living and working in Bristol. He funded Cabot's globetrotting, on the understanding that he named new worlds after him.

Cabot returned to England and was awarded money and named the US after his financial backer, America and left Richard Amerike's family coat of arms as the flag to stake claim to the US. That is where the US flag comes from, it is Amerike's family coat of arms.




After hitting the right google term, found a page for further reading should anyone be interested ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british...aname_01.shtml

Exactly. I think they programme makers assumed that they didn't have to spell out the mistake to the average viewer. Showing Nick's bemused expression, as he asked Helen and Tom if they were sure, was sufficient.
The rewriting of history (including Byron being a contemporary of Shakespeare) and dodgy geography made this one of the most entertaining episodes of the series.

No, that was Mike "Don Quickshot" Servanties, a bouncer at the Windmill.