A new book reveals that Queen Elizabeth found a slug in her dinner salad, and wrote the chef a very pointed note
Posted on 11/16/2018 7:27:40 AM PST by ETL
If there’s one thing you probably want to avoid as a member of the Royal household staff it’s getting on Queen Elizabeth’s bad side. Especially, if you’re her personal chef.
In the new book, "Dinner at Buckingham Palace," written by former royal servant Charles Oliver, he reveals that the queen was royally peeved when she bit into her dinner salad only to find a slug in her greens.
(Honestly, can you blame her for being mad?)
According to Oliver, the queen and Prince Philip regularly eat their meals with notepads so they can send their suggestions back to the kitchen. This time, however, it was less of a suggestion and more of a threat.
"Once, on a torn-off top sheet the footmen found the dead body of a slug," Charles wrote, adding that Queen Elizabeth wrote a small note next to the little body that read, "I found this in the salad—could you eat it?"
Talk about a royal burn.
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I would have sent back this message:
Needs more garlic....................
I’ll have one with not so much rat in it.
What did the slug come from?
.303, 7.62, 9 mm?
“According to Oliver, the queen and Prince Philip regularly eat their meals with notepads so they can send their suggestions back to the kitchen.”
It’s time to get those royal grifters off the dole.
Brutal like = No slugs in my salad!
Her reaction is puzzling since she has given birth to so many of her own slugs.
Sam Ballard
Sam Ballard never did anything wrong, if you ask family and friends.
The teenager from Sydney’s upper north shore was having a laugh and some red wine with mates in the backyard, “trying to act like grown-ups”.
It was 2010 and it was a night that would change his life, and the lives of everybody around him, forever.
A slug crawled across the concrete patio and, teens being teens, a dare emerged for Sam to eat it.
One of his best friends, Jimmy Galvin, later described the moment.
“We were sitting over here having a bit of a red wine appreciation night, trying to act as grown-ups and a slug came crawling across here,” he said.
“The conversation came up, you know. ‘Should I eat it?’ And off Sam went. Bang. That’s how it happened.”
He didn’t become sick immediately, but complained of serious pain in his legs in the days after.
He was worried it might’ve been a symptom of eating the slug, but his mother told him not to worry: “No one gets sick from that,” she said.
Sam was worried he might have developed multiple sclerosis, like his father, but that was ruled out.
Doctors later determined Sam was infected with rat lungworm.
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Queen: Chef, what’s this slug doing in my salad?
Chef: About three inches an hour, your majesty...............
The key words are “raw or undercooked”. Slugs, YUM! < /sarc >
One of the problems with Brits and their silly snobbery is they want to be ‘above it all’ so they don't complain... enough.
In the United States we don't put on those silly airs (other than the Morning Joe crew) and we complain when things are wrong. It's the reason Brits are surprised that the service here is good and 'with a smile' and the ‘passive aggressive’ crap from their cultures is missing.
So God Bless the Queen... and may the rest of the Brits get off their high horses, take their noses down a notch, and complain when it's warranted.
I don't understand... Doesn't everyone do that?!
Regards,
Tell her to fix her own dam meal.
Royalty outlived its usefulness about 200+ years ago.
And, if the cooks saved those notes they would sell for a pretty penny
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