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Green Senator Richard Di Natale has today fronted the rural press club with controversial personal revelations.
The Melbourne doctor – who has already bucked the trend of previous Greens party leaders by showing an interest in contact-sport, non-alternative medicine, and women – left reporters and colleagues in a state of shock after he admitted that he doesn’t know how to properly pronounce ‘Acai’.
Mostly native to the swamps and foodplains of Brazil and Trinidad and northern South America, The açaí palm is a species of palm tree that has been recently donned as a new ‘superfood’. Global demand for the fruit has expanded rapidly in recent years, and açaí is now cultivated primarily for the purpose inner-city breakfasts for people who feel above a bacon and egg roll.
While the most worldly lefties and South Americans agree that the pronounciation is ‘ah-sigh-ee’ – many Australians, including Di Natale, can’t help but get past the contradictory spelling of the word.
“I’ll never be comfortable with how I pronounce it” he told the National press club today.
“Is it Atchay? Asee? It’s a tricky one”
When asked why he thought this issue was big enough to host a press club address, Di Natale pointed out that this particular issue had been the sole cause for recent in-fighting in the Greens.
“It’s been the index issue within our once-proud party”
“Fair cop. I know it’s me who’s been stuffing up. I just hope we can get past this in time for the next full moon”
“I don’t need this kind of energy. I think we need a government inquiry”
