The race that stops a nation really did stop us in our tracks this year but for all the wrong reasons.
The Melbourne Cup, Australia’s biggest horse racing event of the year, sees to hundreds of private office functions being hosted around the country to watch the inaugural event and down a few free booze and waste away an afternoon in the office. It’s all in the name of tradition folks.
In my humble home of Brisbane, however, all was not glam, fillies, frocks and champagne. There was most certainly a rotten smell to the festivities. A headline graced our newspapers for reasons I’m sure one poor catering company could probably do without.
“One dead, 200 ill after salmonella outbreak linked to Melbourne Cup functions“
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