Michelin-starred chef makes Christmas plea after thieves steal 2,500 pies

Michelin-starred chef urges thieves 'do right thing' after criminals steal 2,500 piesTommy Banks

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00:00Good morning, I thought I'd fill everyone in on this morning's dramas. We've been robbed.

00:08So Matt's gone to Maiden Altar this morning to pick up the van full of pies for York Christmas

00:14Market. Full van, two and a half thousand pies has been stolen from our unit. So out

00:22there somewhere is our van and, well, nearly a tonne of pies with my name written all over

00:30somewhere in the north of England. So yeah, a bit of a pain really. Yeah, it's horrible being robbed

00:37but what I can't get my head around though is these guys probably stole the van, right,

00:43because that's what they do, they steal vans or cars or whatever, but they probably didn't bargain

00:47for the nearly tonne of pies that is in the back of it and it's kind of sad because that's a lot

00:53of meat and a lot of flour and eggs and a lot of work, like so much work. It's like £25,000

01:00off a stock in the back of this van. So I guess they probably will watch this video because they're

01:07driving around with boxes of pies with my name written all over it so they might think

01:12who the hell's this guy who makes these pies, maybe. So if you see this video, right, I know the pies

01:18are gone and I know you've nicked my van and we're probably not getting it back but you can't do

01:23anything with these pies because they've got my name written all over them. So can you drop them

01:28off somewhere, like drop them off at like a community centre or somewhere and at least someone could eat

01:33them, someone who need them could eat them. I know you're a criminal but maybe just do something nice

01:40because it's Christmas and maybe we could feed a few thousand people with these pies that you've

01:45stolen. Do the right thing. And also if you're out there and someone offers you some pies

01:52and it's not me, they're stolen and tell the police.