For the benefit of both my foreign readers and my impoverished readers I should explain that the Fat Duck is the name of a restuarant owned by the famous, although I wouldn't recognise him if he cracked an egg on my forehead, chef, Mr. Heston Blumenthal. He, or to be precise, his restaurant, is currently being sued by a TV personality called Mr. Jim Rosenthal, and but for a 'Blume' and a 'Rose' they could be brothers under the skin! Certainly they are equally unattractive to look at:
Apparently, Mr. Rosenthal paid roughly £250 a head for a "food and wine tasting" event which (and please don't laugh) made them all violently ill (I told you not to laugh!) Well, if I took the 'Memsahib' out for a bite to eat and the restaurant gave me a bill for £500 quid for two, I'd throw up all over the table, wouldn't you?
Ooops, sorry, I didn't finish reading the story to the end. Apparently it wasn't the bill but the oysters 'wot done it'! I don't know how much Mr. Blumenthal charged Mr. Rosenthal for the ghastly things but I suspect it was more, a whole, eye-wateringly, stomach-churningly, lot more than their 78p each market value. Anyway, Mr. Rosenthal was left feeling less than rosy and is now in court throwing money at m' learned friends instead of the restaurateur, Mr. Blumenthal. Personally, giving money to a lawyer would make me feel very ill!
According to The Daily Mail, Mr. Rosenthal has already received £6,000 by way of compensation for his pain and suffering but presumably he feels this is insufficient and so, despite the doubts of the judge concerned, he is pressing ahead with a further claim. It would seem from this whole sorry tale that Mr. Rosenthal's appetite is not easily surfeited.
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