Would You Like Faeces With Your Ice-cream?

I don’t know about you, but when I’m on a nice family day out at an award-winning pub bistro I don’t expect staff to defecate in my food.

I’m sure Jessica Whyte thought the same thing. Mrs Whyte was at the Coogee Bay Hotel with her family three weeks ago to watch the NRL grand final. After complaining about several issues to management, staff offered them a free bowl of ice-cream as a conciliatory gesture.

Mrs Whyte says that when she took a spoonful and put it to her lips, she knew she was getting more than gelato and became violently ill. She spat the contents into a napkin her family later sent to the National Measurements Institute, which found it had “properties similar to human excreta”.

The case is revolting, and quite frankly if it is true I would expect a large amount of damages. But the story just gets sillier and sillier.

First, on the day day the Coogee Bay Hotel stood accused of serving gelato contaminated with human faeces, it decided to offer its patrons free ice-cream. Mmm. I’ll have chocolate.

And now the pub has accused Mrs Whyte’s family of having links to rival pubs, a claim their lawyer has called the “Kevin Bacon … six degrees of separation [defence]” — a reference to the pop-culture belief that any actor in history can be linked via their film roles to US actor Kevin Bacon.

Rest assured we will keep you abreast of all new movements in Gelato-gate.

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