If you refuse to throw away your food items at customs…
Do you remember, back in the day, when you would occasionally step onto a plane? (No, we barely do either anymore). And if you had been somewhere with a particularly delicious local specialty, you might have tried to take it home with you. So did these four Chinese colleagues, but the universe (or rather, the check-in employee) had something else in mind—and the poor guys found that out the hard way…
I myself once had to throw away a jar of lemon curd in utter disbelief when we flew back to the Netherlands from England. “But it’s not liquid!” I tried, shaking it desperately, but the customs officer was unmoved, and there went my beautiful jar into a gigantic rubbish bin. But when these four men were given the choice of paying the baggage fee for their haul of oranges or throwing them away, they decided to solve it differently.
Take home a little souvenir
The four colleagues, who had been on a business trip, wanted to take a large box of oranges home with them, weighing around thirty kilos. All well and good—and not even forbidden, they were told by the check-in staff—but it would come with a hefty forty euros in baggage fees. They couldn’t afford that amount, but they also couldn’t bear to watch the crate disappear into the rubbish bin. So what did they do?
Loosen your belt and get going
What any true (and thrifty) citrus fan would do: put their shoulders to it and eat the whole lot right there. Yep, within thirty minutes (because naturally they still had to catch that plane), the four of them had eaten thirty kilos of oranges. What tough guys… “We never want to eat oranges again,” one of the men declared afterwards.
No, we understand that. But if you, like us, could still use a citrus boost (and goodness, aren’t they delicious again this winter), then we’ll all tuck into some boozy oranges, okay? Or this delicious burrata with charred orange, yummm…
Also read:
- Recipe: orange chicken from The Easy Kitchen
- Baking with lemon
- Help! What’s floating in the orange sauce? Flour moths are more common than you think (brrr!)
Source: Insider
