G8 Summit

[carolegif]

They all sat down to an 8 course banquet including caviare last night - talk about hypocrites! Make them eat a bowl of rice!

[BertiWooster]

Haven't you done this below , already ?

[carolegif]

Yes, but that was yesterday's rant and I thought it would disappear!
I didn't know until last night the extent of the banquet. I though it would be gourmet stuff, but not 8 courses, it really does send out the wrong message.

[Gromit]

The menus in full

Dinner

Corn-stuffed caviar

Smoked salmon and sea urchin "pain surprise" style

Hot onion tart

Winter lily bulb and summer savoury

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Folding fan modelled tray decorated with bamboo grasses

including

Kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef "shabu-shabu", asparagus dressed with sesame cream

Diced fatty flesh of tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce and Japanese herb "shiso"

Boiled clam, tomato, "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam

Water shield and pickled conger dressed with vinegar soy sauce

Boiled prawn with jellied tosazu vinegar

Grilled eel rolled around burdock strip

Sweet potato

Fried and seasoned Goby with soy sauce and sugar

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Hairy Crab "Kegani" bisque soup

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Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce

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Milk fed "shiranuka" lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard

Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb's stock and pine seed oil

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Special cheese selection, lavender honey and caramelised nuts

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G8 fantasy dessert

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Coffee

[Gromit]

Wine list

Le Reve grand cru champagne

Japanese saki

Corton Charlemagne 2005

Chateau Latour burgundy

Ridge California Monte Bello 1997

Tokaji Essencia 1999 from Hungary

[carolegif]

I rest my case m'lud!!

[sp1814]

Raggy

You prefer faggots?

Too...many...jokes...head...exploding...

[BertiWooster]

What , no chips ?

Any way It would have been bad form and disrespectful , to their host , if they had refused this little snack , wouldn't it ?

[Rosetta]

I think i'd prefer a bowl of rice to that lot. Yuk!!!!

Ps I do realise that wasn't the point you were making which I agree with whole heartedly.

[LoftyLottie]

I wonder how much waste was slung away after all this! And here we are being told by our esteemed leader not to waste food...............

[anotheoldgit]

They showed some of the waste being thrown away on TV, a huge amount.

It's all a matter of, do as we tell you, not as we do.

I wonder how much goes in the bin from No 10 and Buck. House?

[jake-the-peg]

Your indignation is off target. Forget the banquet that's just a symbolic faux-pas.

The cost of the security operation was 180 million Euros.

Japan's aid budget to the developing world was $200 million this year. (127 million Euros)

[ELVIS68]

That menu sounds like the replies on the daily "What have you had for dinner today?" thread on chatterbank a few years ago

I can see what you mean about hypocrisy

I wonder if any of them actually discussed poverty whilst they were eating