Thieves in Guelph stole $80,000 worth of whipped cream
No word on whether thousands of pies were stolen nearby, but we remain on high alert
While attention has been on the jewel heist at the Louvre, thieves in Guelph managed to pull off their own very Wellington County caper.
Earlier this week, during the pre-dawn hours, a refrigerated trailer containing 30 pallets of Gay Lea whipped cream was reportedly stolen from a business. The delicious loot is said to be worth $80,000.
Was this the work of a lone dairy cognoscente or part of an organized ingredient-thieving ring?
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At the beginning of the month, the Ontario Provincial Police reported that $35,000 worth of salsa and dip went missing from the Tecumseh area, in Essex County.
Around this time last year, two men stole $1,200 worth of butter from a grocery store in Brantford. Police told the CBC that there’s a black market for stolen butter, which may explain the theft of $200,000 worth of it from a Trenton trucking facility in 2021.
A coordinated snack heist makes the most sense, but it’s fun to imagine a more wholesome justification for lifting 30 pallets of whipped cream. A comeback croquembouche to mark this week’s triumphant Zellers return? A really big cake to celebrate the Blue Jays’ potential World Series win tonight?
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
