Disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat has claimed his rights were breached when MasterChef Malta judges rejected his spaghetti carbonara.
Once again taking to Facebook on Monday, Muscat wrote a lengthy post in which he revealed he had applied to be on the cooking show last year, but did not make it past the audition stage.
“I wasn’t going to say anything, but after Sunday’s episode of MasterChef Malta, I felt that I must speak out. I noted with curiosity that the contestants had to make one of five classic pasta dishes, including carbonara. This happens to be Michelle’s favourite meal, so I made it for my audition,” Muscat wrote.
“I was certain I’d blow the judges’ minds, but apparently cream, peas, garlic and onions are ‘not part of the traditional carbonara recipe’. Says who, exactly? Repubblika? It’s clear that I am once again being treated differently because of who I am,” he added.
As a result of being excluded from the show, Muscat said, he was deprived of the opportunity to show the judges his signature dish.
“I am a patriot and a man of the people, so I was going to make the typical Maltese dish of curried rabbit and octopus timpana bil-ful il-forn”
Muscat also revealed that during the auditions, MasterChef hopefuls had to take their own cookware and utensils.
“They didn’t seem impressed by my top-of-the-line La Creuset pans. This is jealousy, plain and simple.”
Muscat concluded by noting that three years ago, the show’s chief judge Victor Borg had left a laughing reaction on one of the contestant’s memes on the group Malta Pastizziposting.
“The only fair outcome is that the show starts over and I am allowed to make whatever I want, however I want, and everyone has to like it,” he said.
