Posted on 12/30/2020 12:16:31 PM PST by mylife
4.5 million stolen bees, 6,150 pounds of missing chickpeas. 2020’s food crimes were as weird as the year itself.
Thanks to a dizzying mix of pandemic and politics, 2020 has been the strangest year many Americans have lived through. As a result, many weird news stories that may have grabbed more national headlines in other years were simply shrugged off as “fitting for 2020.” So, as we thankfully prepare to enter 2021, here is a year’s worth of true food crime stories you may have missed.
92 Hives Holding Millions of Bees Stolen in California
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Maybe it was a sting operation?
It was not a sweet payoff.
Guess the honey trap didn’t work. The whole food world was abuzz on the bees.
Oddly enough, despite no leads, Little Sesame confirmed to me that, unexpectedly, all the chickpeas eventually did arrive a couple weeks later: “No questions asked, and none answered.”
They might have been stashed in the garbanz bins.
Man Drives Off with an Entire Truck of Jack Daniel’s
He would not have done that if it had been an entire truck of Jack Russells.
Thieves Impersonate Trucking Company to Steal Nearly $300,000 in Pistachios
In the old days no GPS tracking was needed. The perps would have been caught red-handed.
No way to clover up the crime.
People figured out that was illicit honey in the baklava.
Red pistachios come from Iran.
I’m getting hives wondering about your next pun :^)
Pistachios? honey? I detect a pattern!
Not punny :)
Four and a half stolen Bs!
Gonna make for some cut rate alphabet soup
Dang BBBBBbbbbbbb’s!
Sorry, for me, “food crimes” are things like turkey bacon and pasteurized processed cheese food.
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