A middle manager is annoyingly and slightly weirdly insisting on calling even the most basic competence amongst his team their 'secret sauce', it has been confirmed.
The news comes even though the man has never been a chef and has no known experience in the restaurant industry.
Mike McBride, 47, regional manager at marketing agency All Leads Lead to Leeds, keeps using the term after hearing it on a business leadership podcast.
'Well done guys on the presentation pitch today, especially Ian for those top-drawer PowerPoint animations- that's definitely your secret sauce' said McBride in a team meeting.
'Now, who is down to produce the next quarterly budget figures? Sophie, can I leave the forecasting to you - it's definitely your secret sauce', continued McBride.
'Just one more thing on the agenda - organising the next team night out', continued McBride. 'Adele, you smashed it booking our last evening out playing darts at Flights of Fancy. I think events management is kinda becoming your secret sauce'.
'Can I just throw in one humble suggestion of that new tapas bar down the road?', continued McBride.
'The chef there cooks these amazing dishes and he finishes them off with these semi-liquid reductions and emulsions which enhance the flavour, texture and visual appeal of the food'.
'But here's the thing - no-one knows the ingredients he uses to make them. I don't know how to describe it - it's like his clandestine condiment or something.'
Scientists trying to uncover the secret of where bears choose to excrete have been transferred to a new project of uncovering the truth behind claims that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is 'rude, arrogant and entitled.'
Professor Ron Jenkins of the University of Clacton explained the problem. 'It's such a difficult thing to clarify assuming, of course, that you ignore everyone who's met him and everything he does. But, with a few years' work, and appropriate funding, I think we'll get there. Then we can finally find out who's been putting all that bear shit in the woods and if the Pope only celebrates Easter because of the chocolate eggs.'
'Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself?'
Professor Ron Jenkins was recently found dead in circumstances which are definitely not suspicious.
Go about your business.
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