A local old mate who claims to have invented the addition of tomato sauce into gravy has been watching the Nagi v Brooki feud with great interest.
Like Nagi, he believes that knicking recipes should be called out and maintains he told Paul Kelly his secret gravy method back in 1988 when he was doing a stint shearing in rural Victoria. He adds,
“I’d make the gravy for all the boys back then. Ask anyone, I’d put shitloads of red wine in it and to make edible I’d empty out a bottle of dead ‘orse. Otherwise you’d just be eating wine ha ha which I liked but the boys said it was rank”
Old mate grew increasingly irritated as he went on to describe his meeting with Paul Kelly. He continued,
“I’d come down to Melbourne to get on the piss and at this pub some bloke with a guitar got paid with a mixed grill feed. I’d had about 20 at that point so I asked the sweetheart behind the bar for some tomato sauce, went over and dumped a load on his plate, telling him it added a bit of tang, I then gave his cock a knock with the back of my fist and told him he was a bloody good bloke”
We tracked down one of old mate’s old shearing buddies and asked him about the claims. He was on the fence,
“Yeah, I can confirm too things, he puts tomato sauce into gravy and that he was so shitfaced that day he thought some random balding backpacker was Paul Kelly. It’s also true that he got him in the goolies, good clean fun that, can’t do that now with all the snowflakes”
Paul Kelly has understandably declined to comment on old mate’s claims.
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