in 2011 The show centred on
Jennifer Paterson and
Clarissa Dickson Wright travelling the United Kingdom for most of the episodes, except for one episode in Ireland and a Christmas special in Jamaica, on a
Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle driven by Paterson. It sported the registration N88 TFL (the British
bingo call for number 88 is "Two Fat Ladies", initialised in the suffix "TFL" of the registration) and had a
Watsonian Jubilee GP-700 "doublewide"
sidecar where Dickson Wright rode. They travelled to various destinations, such as an army garrison and an all-girls school, where they prepared large meals, often with unusual ingredients. Paterson's uncle, Anthony Bartlett, was
Gentiluomo to the
Archbishop of Westminster (
Cardinal Basil Hume for nearly all of the show’s run), and so one episode was videotaped at
Westminster Cathedral and another at an Irish convent. While cooking at Westminster Cathedral, Paterson cooked an original dish,
Peaches Cardinal Hume. Optomen Television's synopsis of the programme said, "The Ladies are cooks not chefs – they reject the pretensions and elaborations of
haute cuisine and are aggressively unfashionable, delighting in such ingredients as clotted cream, lard and fatty meats."
Theme song Paterson and Dickson Wright sang their own theme song written by composer
Peter Baikie, and Paterson often burst into song during the show, once introducing apple pan dowdy with a verse from the song "
Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" (erroneously attributing the song to
The Andrews Sisters). They revelled in cooking at grand locations, such as at
Lennoxlove House near Edinburgh. ==Cookbooks==