A restaurant is seeking a food lover to help sample its new pigs in blankets recipes ahead of the festive season.
The Oast House, Manchester, will pay a hungry helper £500 to munch their way through different variations of the Christmas classic in an exclusive tasting session.
Head chef Mark outlined the role in a job advert shared online, explaining the candidate would be chosen not on skills or qualifications – but on their funniest Christmas story.
The Oast House restaurant, Manchester, will pay £500 for someone to munch their way through different variations of pigs in blankets in an exclusive tasting session. Stock image
Head chef Mark of the Oast House, Manchester, outlined the role in a job advert shared online, pictured, explaining the candidate would be chosen not on skills or qualifications – but on their funniest Christmas story
Those hoping to be considered for the position must submit their very best festive tale in the hope of impressing the recruiters.
If successful the taster, who must live in Manchester, will be expected to judge a variety of sausages in pastry with an added twist. He or she will also be able to bring along a friend to share in the fun.
Posting to Airtasker, a website which enables users to outsource tasks, chef Mark wrote: ‘We’re searching for one Mancunian resident to attend the ultimate Christmas taste-test for this year’s star of the show – pigs in blankets – and give us some honest feedback to help us perfect our Christmas nibbles menu.’
Explaining the job, he continued: ‘We’re interested to hear if traditional pigs in blankets suffice, or whether we can open your mind (and taste buds) to some tasty new twists on the festive classic?’
The post was soon inundated with replies from hopeful candidates sharing their suitability for the role and posting their funny stories.
If successful the taster, who must live in Manchester, will be expected to judge a variety of sausages in pastry at The Oast House (seen) with an added twist. He or she will also be able to bring along a friend to share in the fun
Interested applicants have been tasked with sharing their funny Christmas stories, with the teller of most hilarious tale winning the coveted role of sole taster
Applicant Ellis, from Manchester, wrote: ‘My funniest Christmas moment has got to be when my Mam was under the tree reaching the presents from the back when it fell on her, leaving just her bum sticking out and no one could help her from laughing! (sic)
‘Thankfully she wasn’t hurt, but there were pine needles everywhere, and that was the last year we had a real Christmas tree because she spent all day hoovering them up and picking them out her hair!’.
Meanwhile hopeful Chris added: ‘Imagine turning up to your future wife’s family Christmas dinner after being told it was fancy dress.
Lily and Chris were among those vying for the coveted position as pigs in blankets taster
‘I turned up dress like a fat Santa and no one single other person was dressed up. To say I was a little embarrassed was an understatement but hey!
‘The family blooming loved it and now happily married. How her dad agreed to let me have her hand in marriage after that I’ll never know.’
Elsewhere Lily added her own story, writing: ‘My funniest Christmas memory is coming back from our traditional Christmas Day trip to the pub to find that our dog had managed to neatly unwrap and take out of their boxes three Thornton’s chocolate Santas and had emptied 2 boxes of roses chocolates.
‘All in all he had eaten 750g chocolate which is very poisonous for dogs. So we spent the day at the vets with him being force fed charcoal to make him throw it up, while my mum and sister were hysterically crying.
‘He was okay in the end and returned home very sheepish. Not exactly the Christmas Day we had imagined.’
Meanwhile Ella was left very red-faced when she mistakenly gave her nephew some dirty underwear that was intended for the laundry pile
Meanwhile Ella was left very red-faced when she mistakenly gave her nephew some dirty underwear that was intended for the laundry pile.
She confessed: ‘I was wrapping presents in my bedroom a couple of years ago. I was really tired and overwhelmed – there was paper and presents and sellotape everywhere.
‘I was trying to pile everybody’s presents separately to keep them from getting muddled up, but I fear they also got muddled up with some of my stuff…… some dirty laundry, in fact.
‘Let’s just say that, on Christmas morning when my nephew Liam opened his scarf and gloves, he got the shock of his life! And hasn’t stopped reminding me about it since.’
Elsewhere Abi got a little too drunk attending her first family Christmas at her boyfriend’s house and ended up branding his father a cheater