2 weeks Ago
Originally published by The Spinoff Nothing awakens the soul quite like a bit of weird food popping up somewhere it shouldn’t be. Last year, I was aghast to find a topless mince pie sitting stoically in the middle of my lawn. Even just last week, I discovered a Hansel and Gretel-esque curious trail of rainbow-coloured, candy-coated popcorn leading up our driveway.
I was so delighted by the novelty I didn’t even care that we are evidently being stalked by the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . As recent history would suggest, I am not alone in this. Food dumps are happening everywhere, and in much larger quantities, all the time.
This month, a Napier family went public with their harrowing story of being mercilessly targeted by packets of steak sauce left outside their home. Tamatea resident Lisa O’Connor detailed the “out there” experience of finding more than a dozen packets of Gregg’s Steak Sauce in her mailbox over the past two years. While the perpetrator is suspected to be someone in O’Connor’s “outer family”, she said she was not taking any chances with the high-stakes steak sauce.
“We haven’t eaten any of them because A: we are not big fans of steak sauce ourselves and B: we don’t really trust whatever is in it because we don’t know where it is coming from,” she told Hawke’s Bay Today . “We have thrown all the other ones away because they were just taking up so much room in the pantry.”.
