LONDON — A British chef has urged thieves who stole a van with 2,500 savory pies inside to “do the proper factor” and donate the edible loot to the needy.
Tommy Banks, who owns two Michelin-starred eating places and a pub within the northern English county of Yorkshire, stated a member of employees found the van was lacking, together with its cargo of steak and ale, turkey and butternut squash pies meant for a Christmas market within the metropolis of York. The meals has been valued at 25,000 kilos ($32,000).
Banks stated the van was insured, however he implored the automobile thieves to not let the meals go to waste. In an Instagram video, he recommended they drop the pies at a group heart or different venue.
“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 couple of thousand individuals with these pies that you just’ve stolen. Do the proper factor,” he stated.
The pie heist is the newest theft of artisanal edibles to rock the U.Okay. meals commerce. In October, almost 1,000 wheels of cloth-wrapped artisanal cheddar weighing 22 metric tons (48,488 kilos) and valued at 300,000 kilos ($390,000) had been swiped from London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy by a con artist posing as a wholesale distributor for a serious French retailer.
Regardless of a hunt by British and worldwide police — and an attraction by TV chef Jamie Oliver — the cheese has not been discovered. A 63-eyar-old man was arrested and questioned by police, however has not been charged.
