Pierre Novellie
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Who is the guest and what is the Off‑Menu secret‑ingredient challenge?
Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the beef of conversation, drying it in the hot air of humor. creating the um Bodivos of podcasting.
It's thematic for our guest. That is a gamble. My name is James A. Castle. That was Thematic for our guest. And every single week we invite in a guest and we ask them their favourite ever start a main course dessert, side dish and drink, not in that
order. And this week our guest is Boravos might be sausage. I know Sorry to any South Africans out there. Uh uh get your dried meats mixed up.
Pierre Novelli. South African. Pierre Novelli is from South Africa, of course. He's a fantastic comedian, author, podcaster. Multi hyphenate, I guess.
Yeah, he's brilliant, Pierre. Delighted to finally get him on the pod.
Yes, it's been it's been too long. And he's a foodie as well. He's a foodie. He's part of Ed's little wine crew. We'll get into that later, I hope. I'll be bringing that up. Yes. And even though he is all of these things, we will kick him out if he says the secret ingredient, ingredient, ingredient, we need to be only accepted.
And this week the secret ingredient is blackcurrant lem
sip. I like blackcurrant lem sip. Ed doesn't like it. Don't call it lemsip if it doesn't have any lem in it. So I like it, black currant lemsip. I I prefer it to normal lem sip. Ed doesn't like it, doesn't think it should even be called lemsip because it's not got lemon in it. We're gonna see if Pierre picks it and then we can have that debate.
I don't think he will, but it's worth a shot.
It's unlikely, but um I I I would like the the public and our our listeners and our viewers who might be watching this on YouTube right now to discuss it. Yes. And uh talk about Tweet Benito. Yeah, tweet Benito. Tweet him.
The great Betweeter.
The Great Batuito. We've already had Lemsip as a secret ingredient. This is a sequel of sorts.
Yeah, Phil Ellis had Lemsip as a secret ingredient.
And now we've got blackcurrant lemsip, but I guess if they ever do any other flavours.
Yeah. Which they will probably.
Yeah, yeah. Then we can we can include
biscoff or something. Birthday
cake flavour.
Or salted caramel.
Yeah, something like that. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see what the boys at Lemsip come up with. Yeah. And girls. I'm assuming it's mainly boys. At
Lemsep?
Yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah.
This is the off-menu menu of Pierre Novelle. Pierre Novelle!
Welcome Pierre to the Dream Restaurant.
Welcome, Pierre de Belly, to the Dream Restaurant. We've been expecting you for some time. Thank you very much. When you imagine yourself as the genie, are you blue like Aladdin? Like are you a
I'm as the guest because it's your dream restaurant. Yeah. I'm as the guest imagines me each episode. Okay, 100% Robin Williams.
Who else am I gonna did I see a panto that was better than that film? Yeah. Yeah, I guess Panto genie, but then it you know, it's not as good as Robin Williams. Uh someone who was an East Enders? No. Yeah.
Also like genies have been like, you know Just like a a thing for centuries. People talking
about genies in the West eight hundred years.
Time. There you go. Look, this is this is what's going to be good this episode. Is when you try and do a bit of history, you're clearly just making it pulling out your ass. Right. We've got Pierre here who knows his shit. Yeah, she literally just said in the West eight hundred years. In the West eight hundred years. Yeah. And you go, It's for ages? Both
correct.
Yeah, both correct. I mean, but luckily in the case of James.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But good instincts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, good instincts. Driving towards the facts. Yeah. But not really knowing that they're there. Also, you should be driving. I shouldn't be driving, I'm a bad driver. But uh and I I I know the history there. Um but uh but uh yeah. I mean Robin Williams in the Nineties? Uh do it doing Aladdin. Yeah. And completely changing how everyone sees genies, which have been around for centuries. And now when everyone thinks about a genie, they think of the Robin Williams version. That is quite a thing. To to be like the Coca Cola Red Father Christmas
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who is the guest and what is the Off‑Menu secret‑ingredient challenge?
0:13–6:58
2
Why do the hosts keep joking about ‘beef police’ and eating more beef?
6:58–42:42
3
What is the joke about ‘South African Claire Bit’ and the Ratatouille food‑critic?
42:42–47:50
4
How do they transition from the Ratatouille gag to a South‑African braai and sausage‑style cooking?
47:50–54:58
5
Why does the conversation shift to a badger encounter and other animal anecdotes?
54:58–1:11:56
6
What wine, dessert and final menu ideas do they propose at the end of the episode?
1:11:56–1:28:16