Much of the world agreed the show was an immediate hit in the UK, sold to seventy countries, and went down especially well in the US (where it was advertised with a "Two Phat Ladies" rap). Writing in the Guardian in 1996, the critic Nancy Banks-Smith, an early fan of the Ladies, and of Paterson in particular, called the pairing "a magnificent piece of matchmaking", noting that the cooking, while "not for the timid", was "inspirational". The famously decadent cookery show first appeared in October 1996 and ran for nearly three years, in the course of which Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson featured in twenty-four episodes over four series, each with a corresponding bestselling cookery book. "Grab that crab, Clarissa!" / "Eat that I meat, Jennifer!"-these lines, instantly recognizable to many as the opening of the Two Fat Ladies' self-sung theme tune, last aired on the BBC twenty years ago this autumn.
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