Hello, off-menu listeners, it's Ed Gamble here. I'm one of the hosts of the podcast, you

should know that by now. I'm very excited to announce that I am going on a UK and

Ireland tour. Hot diggity dog coming to a town near you, hopefully dependent on where

you live. Tickets are on sale now, go to edgamble.co.uk for details and I will see you in 2024.

Welcome to the off-menu podcast, opening the kinder egg of the internet, taking out the parts

of the little toy that is humour, building the little humour toy, playing with it for a bit,

throwing it in the bin, eating the egg. Kind of surprised.

Kind of surprised. That's Ed Gamble there. My name is James A. Caster. We own a dream restaurant,

we invite a guest in every single week and ask them their favourite ever, start a main course

side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week our guest is Angela Barnes.

Angela Barnes, brilliant comedian. Fantastic comedian, a dear friend, we've known Angela for many,

many years, very excited to finally be able to get on the podcast. Can't wait to hear what her

dream meal is. Yes, excited to hear it and it's just nice to catch up with Angela as well,

isn't it? It is very good. Last time I saw her was the final series of mock the week and

Nish and I had gone back for a little jolly and had forgotten that it's actually very hard.

Yeah, it's a hard show. And people like Angela, really on the ball who have been doing it,

like way more recently than us, really, really on every single topic and I felt like I was,

I was like, I'm falling behind. Well, yeah, it's not. I watched that episode,

you two shouldn't have been there. Yes, it's fair to say. It was a disgrace.

Yep, absolute disgrace, but you know, who's not disgrace is Angela Barnes, unless Angela picks

the secret ingredient. Yes, ingredient, which we deem to be unacceptable. And then with a heavy

heart, we'll have to kick Angela Barnes out of the dream restaurant. And this week, the secret

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