It was crumby for chef Tommy Banks when his van containing $30,000 value of pies was stolen, however Michelin-starred chef has appealed to the thieves to donate them to individuals in want.
“I do know you’re a prison, however perhaps simply do one thing good as a result of it’s Christmas and perhaps we are able to feed a number of thousand individuals with these pies that you simply’ve stolen, do the best factor,” Banks stated in an Instagram video Monday, shortly after they had been taken.
The refrigerated van was full of 2,500 pies with a wide range of fillings together with steak and ale, turkey and butternut squash, Banks stated.
Staff went within the “morning to select up the van and it has been stolen,” from the enterprise park in Ripon, a cathedral metropolis in northern Britain, he stated. He added that it had been “plugged in in a single day” to maintain the pies recent.
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 car, he stated the thieves ought to “drop the pies off someplace” to allow them to be given “to individuals who want meals and they aren’t wasted.”
“I do know they’ve gone now and we clearly aren’t going to recuperate them to promote them,” he added. “I simply assume that’s 2,500 individuals we might feed and there’s lots of people who might do with a sizzling meal proper now. If we are able to discover them, they’ll have them.”
Banks, a veteran decide on British cooking present The Great British Menu, requested any members of the general public who’re provided pies together with his branding from somebody who just isn’t him to report them to the police.
NBC News has contacted North Yorkshire Police for remark.
He had a much less forgiving message for the thieves themselves.
“I hope you don’t get any presents this Christmas,” he stated in a separate submit on his private and enterprise Instagram accounts.