BOOJUM!: In The Spirit Of The Carolina Reaper

Sunday, 23 May 2021

In The Spirit Of The Carolina Reaper

I Know I Usually Start Off With A Clickbaity Image

But that's BOOJUM! for you, all the consistency of a weather vane in a hurricane. If they bother with weather vanes in hurricane territory, since you'd need to continually replace them. And - would they also act as a lightning conductor? If so then a heap of melted slag flying through the air at 150 miles per hour would be bad news. I may look into this further.

Fried chicken tonight!

ANYWAY this was only supposed to be a brief intro before all the retrospective links went up. Better get the hilarious anecdote up, then. This is another tale of lunchtime food theft, where a mysterious bandit was stealing people's NAMED AND MARKED food from the office fridge, which is about as low as you can go. The Reddit poster who told the tale had a relative who worked as a confectioner, whom they persuaded to make a batch of chocolate truffles. These were left in the fridge with a note saying "DO NOT EAT!" attached, which would have deterred all bar the most morally-deficient amongst us - like Fridge Bandit.

Shortly before lunch, Fridge Bandit took the bait, and shortly after that the sounds of nauseous hacking, choking and gagging were heard to originate from the breakroom, leading to the discovery of Fridge Bandit trying to rinse their mouth out. The truffle's centre, you see, was pure liquorice oil, which is horribly bitter and unpleasant when consumed undiluted - as Fridge Bandit could testify. Both OP and she got a telling-off, and the food thefts abruptly halted.

Okay, NOW the clickbaity image. Art!