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Sunday 1 July 2012

The world’s worst donut flavour

The world’s worst donut flavour was Stinky Bishop Icing with dry Marmite Sprinkles. The topping was developed was developed as part of a 1998 experiment by the Research & Development Department of Tasty Treets inc., a confectionary company based in New Zealand. At an inquest called after 3 people went blind at a taste trial fro the donut, head of development, Buddy ‘Bud’ Chappers said, “We have spent several years chasing the Holy Grail of the perfect flavour, or ‘PF’, and after running into dead end after dead end, we decided to try to formulate the worst flavour possible, or ‘WFP’, and try to reverse it. I never expected that it could permanently disable someone.”
There are few surviving photographs of the offending donuts. Few photographers could stand the smell long enough to focus their cameras. This photograph by tommy.chheng was taken with the aid of a gas mask, which was then disposed of in a hospital furnace.

 ©2012 James Mathurin