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Proving the PM’s sentiment that if you want a go you’ll get one, a regional pub cook has taken maters into his own tatted hands.



Danny Lynch (36) has been a cook at the Betoota Railway Hotel for seven years and in that time he has served many a smile and undersalted chip to the bar’s regulars.



But like many cooks, Lynch was not satisfied with a simple lifestyle of long hours, drugs and going hard on social media, choosing to step it up a notch by rebranding himself as a chef.



“Got my embroidered chef jacket in the post,” stated Lynch, well aware the kitchen he works in has a t-shirt and thongs minimum policy.



“Chef Danny. Who’s gonna mess with him?”



“Chef” Lynch states he is aware that ‘Chef’ is a title that is earnt after years of training under someone with the same title and not Damo whose greatest achievement is surviving four ODs.



However, Lynch knows that as a cook in a regional bistro it is unlikely anyone will ever call him out for this, especially if he becomes Head Cook one day.



When our reporters questioned Lynch about how much his yearning for the new title had to do with the John Favreau film Chef, Lynch immediately became defensive.



“Yeah I’m talking about the movie Chef though, not that show he made on Netflix which was basically him and Marvel executives having a big group wank about a movie that came out five years ago for fuck’s sake. Who was the fucking audience for that show?”