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Culture

A grand awards hall where an enormous round blob cookie sits before a wall of identical certificates — The eleventh presentation. The certificates behind the stage are, by now, difficult to tell apart.

Culture

Baker of the Year Award Given, for Eleventh Time, to the Same Extremely Round Blob

Judges cited 'consistency.' Rivals cited 'the judging panel being three of his cousins.'

By Prue Sanderling · 1 min read