Unintended laugh of last week's LACA conference came from posh Prue Leith, a speaker there and chairman of the School Food Trust (SFT).
Towards the end of the first morning's session a question and answer spot featuring the SFT got very heated as the school catering delegates voiced their frustrations with the prescriptive changes being made to the system and perceived lack of support.
Leith cunningly launched into an anecdote about a group of young pupils she had met in the past that had undertaken a 13-week course on how to bake biscuits.
Although partially successful in diffusing the fiery atmosphere, Leith appeared due to the vagaries of conference space acoustics to go all Captain Pugwash at the end of the tale.
Speaking in her plumy accent Leith told the audience that by the end of the course "all the young cooks were of course master bakers", which sounded like a far more personal compliment than most delegates were expecting.
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I thought that I was the only one to snigger at that!!! All the northerners sitting next to me didn't seem to get it.