Written up at four
On the board
Six or seven things, rubbed out and rewritten
The board goes up at four every afternoon. What follows is a guide to what tends to be on it. A fixed menu would be a promise about a truck that is fifteen hundred kilometres away.
Usually on it
- Beef from a property on the Plenty Highway, grilled, one cut at a time
- Lamb shoulder that has been in the oven since the morning
- A vegetable plate with bush tomato, which is not a tomato and is better
- Damper, hot, with butter and golden syrup, which is not sophisticated and is the first thing to go
Sometimes on it
- Kangaroo, when the supplier has it and never frozen
- Barramundi, flown down from Darwin, on the two days a week it arrives
- A curry on Wednesdays, which started as a joke in 2016 and is now non-negotiable
Never on it
- Oysters, prawns, or anything else that has to come from a coast
- Anything described as a deconstruction of anything