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The annual Benton County Fair (Minnesota) took place last week, during six days in which visitors could enjoy activities, monster trucks exhibitions or free food based on corn.
Within this festive scenario, the darkness came when several bags of pasta were stolen from a food vendor, and a second robbery took place at one of the fair’s booths. Cases that the Benton County Sheriff’s Office had to investigate, following the events that took place between Wednesday night’s closing and Thursday morning’s reopening.
At that instant, an unknown person entered the Epicure’s stand and helped himself to several bags of pasta. A same time period in which someone forced their way into Ubetcha’s MN Grill, then broke into the Maid-Rite building – the ‘Home of the Loose Meat Sandwich’ – and stole ‘the seed money’ inside.
Although that robbery of Epicure’s owners was not as massive a heist as the one that happened at a Brooklyn restaurant the night before Christmas Eve 2020. A grand theft of pasta that took place at Borsalia restaurant, where someone climbed into their kitchen and made off with about 15 kilos of cooked pasta cappelletti, gnocchi, ravioli and tagliatelle.
The restaurant was forced to close on Christmas Eve because it had no pasta to serve its customers, revealing that the stolen carbohydrates amounted to a sum of about 4,500 dollars. A very strange case that was then added to the immensity of mysterious stories surrounding culinary heists.
