The price of Gather Round | The pistachio plague | Banana for comparison
This week, InSider was forced to drink Victorian beer, questions a viral food trend and basks in the compliments of a councillor.
Gather Round missed a free kick
Another Gather Round has been and gone, and with it likely thousands of empty glass bottles that were once filled with beautiful South Australian beer…
Or so it should be. In actual fact, InSider noticed very little South Australian beer at the Adelaide Festival of Footy.
It was particularly noticeable at the Gather Round Business Lunch, held on Friday afternoon at the Convention Centre.
This was InSider’s second time at the prestigious lunch, attended by a who’s who of local and interstate business acumen, political big wigs and their advisors.
It’s a great event that this year even had some thrilling entertainment courtesy of an opera singer and a girls’ choir, but it would’ve been even better with a bottle of local beer in hand.
InSider loves a lunchtime ale, but when the only options are Carlton Draught (in a bottle, mind you) or Asahi (no hate here, but it’s not South Australian), we can get a little moody.
At least the wine was South Australian, though who in their right mind would select a Victorian drop over our local stuff.
Grumbling aside, the Business Lunch is always a good opportunity to see the Premier in a more relaxed frame of mind.
He’s been at peak performance the last two years of the event, and this year was no exception. He seemed cool and comfortable on stage with AFL CEO Andrew Dillon and got off a couple of zingers.
Asked about the growth potential of the event to the SA economy, Malinauskas said: “I hate talking about this in front of Dills because every time I talk about the economic success he sees more dollar signs”.
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“Every time people are turning on the television set they’re seeing our city alive, and I’m more excited about this weekend than last night or tonight because they’re going to see the Barossa, they’re going to see all the activation around it, they’re going to see the Norwood Food & Wine Festival,” the Premier said.
“The power of those images of sunny South Australia will be projected to the rest of the country.
“You can’t buy that…well we did actually, but it’s powerful.”
Is it just me or…
Have we reached peak pistachio?
InSider can barely open Instagram these days without being confronted by green-toned desserts and “viral” chocolates filled with pistachio cream.
InSider would go so far as to say the trend is to Gen Z what salted caramel was to Millennials.
While InSider enjoys the taste, it has to be said that the flavour has reached total oversaturation, assaulting menus everywhere.
The trend started with the “viral Dubai chocolate”. InSider has many questions – first of all, when did the word “viral” start being thrown around willy-nilly. It used to mean something, damnit!
Details aside, you’ve likely seen videos of people crushing blocks of the “viral” Dubai chocolate up in their hands on Instagram, with green filling spilling out everywhere.
In what world is this appetising? It genuinely looks like a baby’s nappy. The people making this content or thinking it looks delicious cannot be serious individuals.
The special part of the “viral Dubai chocolate” is the pistachio filling. This has kicked off a trend of making everything Dubai chocolate flavoured (literally just pistachio flavoured).
It feels like brain rot has seeped into our foodie culture.
Now everyone is trying to make a viral pistachio food. The worst offenders are bakeries making pastries filled with the green goop. Even hot cross buns aren’t immune to the pistachio plague.
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There’s nothing worse, content-wise, than someone pulling apart a bread product and watching the green, diarrhea-like paste ooze through a poor worker’s hands and drip onto the pavement below.
InSider is calling for a Royal Commission into this food trend. It has gone too far and it must stop.
Do unicorns exist?
Unfortunately, we may never know.
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia sent out this intriguing email subject line on Wednesday afternoon, only to then have even more intriguing copy to follow about National Banana Day (what the?). InSider quickly binned the release… but found a **Corrected version** in our inbox at 8:58 the next morning, which was still, to be honest, a little bananas.
Basically, the RDAA wants the government to act on the lack of affordable fresh fruit and vegetables in rural areas, and someone in their media team convinced them that sending journalists a release filled with banana facts would do the trick (guess it sorta did since InSider is telling you about it).
However, InSider was more intrigued with why the obvious “unicorn” mistake took 16 hours to correct. And can hardly wait until the doctors drop the unicorn release – hoping it will beat the corrected banana one and its concluding joke: Why did the banana go to the doctor? Because it wasn’t peeling well!
Boom tish.
Quote of the week
In a new addition to InSider, we thought we needed a spot where, every now and then, someone says something that got lost in the news cycle.
And what better way to kick it off than by pumping up our own tires?
Last Friday, the Adelaide City Council Central Ward election was declared void. The Lord Mayor called a special meeting for Monday night to deal with the fallout after four councillors, including the Deputy Lord Mayor, lost their spots.
Councillor Henry Davis told ABC Drive that he learned about the special meeting from InDaily rather than from the Lord Mayor personally.
Doubling down on the compliment, when Monday rolled around Davis asked the InDaily team if we knew if the meeting had enough attendees to go ahead because…
“I get more information from InDaily than the council these days,” he said.
Oh, shucks.
In fact, Davis wasn’t the only one knocking on the InDaily door off the back of our coverage of the unprecedented court case.
A SkyNews reporter slid into the InDaily inbox asking for the contact details of the state liberal party director who was the petitioner in the case – surely you should have that Sky?
InSider hears the InDaily team didn’t respond, savage.
