It was crumby for chef Tommy Banks when his van containing $30,000 price of pies was stolen, however Michelin-starred chef has appealed to the thieves to donate them to folks in want.
“I know you’re a criminal, but maybe just do something nice because it’s Christmas and maybe we can feed a few thousand people with these pies that you’ve stolen, do the right thing,” Banks mentioned in an Instagram video Monday, shortly after they had been taken.
The refrigerated van was crammed with 2,500 pies with quite a lot of fillings together with steak and ale, turkey and butternut squash, Banks mentioned.
Workers went within the “morning to pick up the van and it has been stolen,” from the enterprise park in Ripon, a cathedral metropolis in northern Britain, he mentioned. He added that it had been “plugged in overnight” to maintain the pies contemporary.
He added that he had deliberate to promote the pies at a pop-up stall within the close by metropolis of York.
Admitting that it was unlikely they’d return the automobile, he mentioned the thieves ought to “drop the pies off somewhere” to allow them to be given “to people who need food and they are not wasted.”
“I know they’ve gone now and we obviously aren’t going to recover them to sell them,” he added. “I just think that’s 2,500 people we could feed and there’s a lot of people who could do with a hot meal right now. If we can find them, they can have them.”
Banks, a veteran choose on British cooking present “The Great British Menu,” requested any members of the general public who’re provided pies along with his branding from somebody who will not be him to report them to the police.
He had a much less forgiving message for the thieves themselves.
“I hope you don’t get any presents this Christmas,” he mentioned in a separate submit on his private and enterprise Instagram accounts.
