The Department of Health and Aged Care secretary Blair Comley details his thoughts on food and cooking in weekly video messages to staff.
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00:00 I was a little surprised that one of the questions was,
00:04 can we have a department taco Tuesday?
00:07 Now, first of all, I don't quite know what that means.
00:09 I'm not sure if I can mandate
00:11 that everyone has tacos on a Tuesday
00:13 or there's some collective cooking.
00:15 But I did observe that myself and my family are keen cooks.
00:19 And we found tacos,
00:21 particularly through the pandemic, were particularly good.
00:23 I'm wearing this purple scarf.
00:26 And one of the reasons I'm wearing it
00:27 is because I was given it as a piece of, dare I say,
00:31 merchandise by the G20 organizers
00:34 for going to the India trip.
00:36 It hasn't been valued yet,
00:38 so I'm not sure if I'm keeping it.
00:39 You can have the red kidney bean and corn with salsa mix
00:44 if you're a vegetarian.
00:46 You can avoid the cheese if you're lactose intolerant.
00:49 And if you're like me and a bit of a carnivore,
00:50 you can grill some chicken, slice it up,
00:53 and have a more fajita-style approach.
00:55 What are you hoping to get out of this trip?
00:56 Well, first of all, thank you for inviting me.
00:58 This is my Team Health debut, I think.
01:00 So, long-time listener, first-time caller.
01:04 And it hasn't been fully screened for electronic devices,
01:07 so I don't know whether someone
01:09 in the Indian Intelligence Service
01:11 is currently getting a copy of the Team Health message.
01:14 But when that's all done, I might be able to keep it.
01:16 And it's very fortunate
01:17 because I have virtually no purple in my wardrobe.
01:20 Finally, hard-shelled taco, bad idea.