Interview with a kitchen cupboard

Good afternoon Kitchen Cupboard. I understand you’re the In Search of Ausfood Team Leaders’ right hand man and I’d like to ask you a few questions. 

Before you go any further I’m the right hand kitchen cupboard not a right hand man. Any right thinking person could see I was a cupboard and not a man. If this is the best you can do for your opening gambit I dread to think what direction your next questions might take.

Sorry. I won’t make that mistake again. Now, how did you come to be chosen as the Kitchen Cupboard for this food blog?

If you open my door and have a look inside you’ll see why; both my shelves are crammed with tins, cartons and packets of food. Be careful when you open the door, things are likely to tumble out.

Yes, I see. Things are rather crowded in there and some of them look to have been around as long as you have. Are you the only food cupboard? 

No. The cupboard on my left is also a food cupboard. It doesn’t store as much food as I do though. It also provides storage for food related items such as glasses, bowls and storage containers. And as you can see that cupboard sits over the gas cook-top and that’s not a good place to store food. I’m by far the better cupboard for food.

What are your thoughts on supporting Australian Farmers?

I’m all for supporting Australian farmers. Australian farmers have kitchen cupboards too. And they like to be able to put food in their kitchen cupboards to feed themselves and their families. It’s up to the rest of us to do something about that. Being a kitchen cupboard I can’t actually go down to the supermarket and push a trolley along the aisle but I’m happy to wait here and welcome any Australian products to whatever space they can find on my shelves until they head off to hit the dinner plate.

How do you feel about joining the blog? 

Hah! I didn’t have any say in it. Around here you’re simply told what to do. Anyhow, I’ll go along with whatever it takes to help out when it comes to Australian farmers. I hear a bit about this blog but I don’t ever get to see it. The computer never comes into the kitchen; it spends all its time on the dining room table when it’s doing any work. Otherwise it just sits around in its case bludging.

I imagine you’re looking forward to new things coming your way in the next few months?

I am. I hear things sometimes from the Plans who gather now and then on the backburner. As you can see the backburner is quite near and I often hear them chattering away. Mostly they’re complaining about the Team Leader not doing enough or never turning up to talk to them. Some of them are rough types. I just listen. You learn a lot when you just listen. There’s a lot of talk about a challenge and a team. This team idea sound good to me, I’d like to hear from another kitchen cupboard out there.

So you might be a good source of inside information?

I might be. Why don’t you call by in another few weeks? No more of this right hand man business though; I ‘m a decent hardworking kitchen cupboard. Show some respect.

Sure. Thanks for your time. I’ll be in touch. 

OK. I’ll be here, I’m not going anywhere.