He joked that when Joe Bruno, the formidable majority leader of the state Senate, invited him to dinner he accepted, but vowed to take a food-taster with him.
One senior MP said:'It is ridiculous to bring in some outside food-taster to advise us on what the soup tastes of and whether the meals in the Palace are value for money.
Its customers were so angry about the change, for which they would need two accounts, that Reed Hastings, Netflix's boss, joked that he "might need a foodtaster".