The Menu
Entree: Confit of ocean trout with fennell and apple salad
Main Course: A Shit Sandwich Braised beef cheek on celeriac puree with roast beetroot.
Desert: Chocolate tart
Today you’re going to do your first big catering job… For the Blue Team, a silver service corporate lunch for a group of 12.
Which corporate firm, you ask? Look no further than embattled top-tier Allens Arthur Robinson. Blue Team captain Peter referred to the firm as follows:
I’m going down to Allens Arthur Robinson, a very high end legal office.
Michael Rose gave some context to the attendees at the lunch:
We act for a lot of corporate clients. We also act for more than 100 community groups and what we like to do is we like to bring the leaders of those groups together with the leaders of our clinets. So that’s what this lunch is going to be about… The way that these lunches tend to work at our firm is that they start at 12:30pm. We get people to sit down at 12:45pm… The really important thing I suppose is to get all people away by 2:00pm… I think the preference is for a lighter lunch.
But in reality, the preference was for a degree of perfection that not even a qualified chef of several decades would have been able to deliver:
I asked for the entree to come out at a quarter to one… it is now ten to one… I would have thought we would have needed to see the main meal by now
Michael Rose on the main:
….It was fantastic to eat… but I think it was too heavy.
Michael Rose on the desert:
I wasn’t expecting something as heavy as this. This was quite heavy and rich.
Michael Rose’s castigation of the Blue Team’s performance set in motion a sequence of events that ended, last night, with the elimination of fan favourite Kumar; the competition’s oldest ever contestant.
Is your preference for something “light” this Friday? Let’s hope the guilt of Kumar’s eviction doesn’t weigh too heavily on Mr Rose’s lunch plate today.
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FS, are you getting your Roses and Robinsons mixed up?
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In the meantime, enjoy your sandwiches!
“I asked for the entree to come out at a quarter to one… it is now ten to one… I would have thought we would have needed to see the main meal by now”
Who expects their entree to come out with a main following 5 minutes later? Stupidity.
Michael Rose: I was expecting this statement of claim at quarter to one not ten to one. It is a little too heavy too.
Solicitor: Sorry you royalness, I will go and give myself 50 lashings
We forgive you we love you!
It’s an understandable Freudian slip: both Michael Ro… and if it’s true the older Michael still wields real power at the firm
Why would Allens partners bother getting involved in reality TV. Surely it’s beneath them!
Need another “s” in that menu’s 3rd course. Currently it’s a bit dry.
Word on the (AAR) street is that Rose was actually quite complimentary, and was then told by the producers to be harsher.