Pigeon foot sparks distress on MasterChef: The Professionals

The delicacy the world truly wasn't ready for.

Viewers horrified after MasterChef features a dish garnished with a pigeon's foot (BBC)

MasterChef: The Professionals sparked widespread revulsion amongst its viewers after garnishing one of its dishes with a pigeon's foot.

In the first of the series' semi-finals, contestants Mark and Dean were invited to cook alongside the 2011 joint-winner of the competition, Anton Piotrowski, at his Michelin-starred restaurant known as the Treby Arms in Devon. After learning Piotrowski was the kind of chef who had a particular penchant for the blowtorch, the two contestants were tasked with whipping up a scallop starter and goat dish for the lunchtime service. 

Next, however, came Piotrowski's signature dish; as the two competing chefs were asked to recreate his pigeon wellington, complete with the absolute horror of a pigeon's foot reaching out of the dish and presumably towards whatever virginal soul it was intent on possessing that day. 

Unsurprisingly, social media did not take such a sight particularly well. 
 

THERE'S A PIGEON'S FOOT ON THAT PLATE! NO NO NO NO NO! #masterchefprofessionals

— Kⓐte O'Neill (@KateFONeill) December 15, 2015


 Pigeon Wellington garnished with a pigeon's foot
 (BBC)

And, of course, everyone's now looking forward to the moment MasterChef goes full Temple of Doom and asks its contestants to serve up chilled monkey brains. Bon Appétit!

The second of the MasterChef: The Professionals semi-finals sends contestants to Edinburgh to work under Tom Kitchin at his aptly named joint, Kitchin. The episode will air at 8pm on 16 December, on BBC2.