Mixed Grille

A Peri-Peri Mason Mystery

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

Sometimes you see things that put a big grin on your face. This Nando’s delivery truck was parked in the city on Wednesday and so I walked round the front to take a shot of the words painted above the engine grille.

Peri-Peri Sauce is the famous hot sauce perfected by Nando’s and is thought to derive from the Portuguese "piri-piri", which is a generic term for any spicy sauce. No doubt Erle Stanley Gardner, who created the fictional Perry Mason, and Raymond Burr – who played him on screen – would have approved.

Immediately after I took this shot, I cocked my head to listen for the drums. You’re not familiar with the drums? Let me explain - "Can you hear the drums for Nando’s".

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A Journalist Never Reveals His Sauces

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON

This is the beauty of digital technology, because I only just shot these frames, less than an hour ago. I was driving down Waverley Road here in Melbourne, when I noticed a Nando's delivery truck parked outside a newsagent. I immediately indicated, swung into a nearby parking spot - they can be hard to find on this stretch. I walked over to the driver of the van to ask his permission to photograph the van to highlight the bright colours and the slogan for Nando's famous Peri-Peri sauce. The first frame is a tight shot of the side of the van, while the second is a three-quarter frame to show you the van's surroundings. And for all my overseas readers - the Herald Sun, The Australian and The Age are all newspapers.

FOOTNOTE: Must have been a Peri Mason mystery!

Click here: Pentax K100D, Shutter speed 1/350, F9.5, ISO speed 200.