Barely 10 minutes into this week’s Apprentice task and we’re warned that one of the clients – for whom they’re throwing a kids’ birthday party – has a major nut allergy.
It didn’t take Einstein to realise that, when the task requires a cake to be made and party food to be cooked, this probably wasn’t going to go very well.
Joseph and Charleine were in charge of making a cake for the birthday boy Jamal, whose mother has, let’s repeat it all together now, a severe nut allergy.
For some reason, the nation had absolutely no faith that the Apprentice candidates could make it work.
Turns out Twitter was right to be worried. Charleine and Joseph bought a chocolate spread that “may contain nuts”, or you know, may kill the client.
“I’ve just found one and it doesn’t say contains nuts, the only thing it says is ‘May contain nuts’. I think just about everything these days says ‘May contain’,” mused Charleine.
But people were quick to point out, no, that’s to stop people dying actually, Chaz.
Then Gary sent Jamal’s mum into quarantine by saying they’d bought Nutella, a spread literally made from nuts.
(Although sssssh, health and safety Karren Brady might have had a hand in that. Still, better safe than dead.)
But we can all agree the will-they-won’t-they death subplot made for a much more exciting episode and a good lesson from Lord Sugar.
“The first rule of party planning is don’t poison the client.”
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