Tunnock’s Tea cakes

Here we have two Tunnock’s Tea cakes, one still in the wrapper.

From the BBC website

“The story goes that 60 years ago, Tunnock's teacakes were banned from RAF flights after a cockpit marshmallow explosion.

The chocolate-covered treats were apparently all the rage, eaten by nuclear bomber crewmen on training sorties at the height of the Cold War.

But in the summer of 1965, a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped teacakes above their instrument panels.

When the captain pulled an emergency depressurising switch the iconic Scottish treat erupted - leaving a sticky mess over the airmen, the instruments and cockpit canopy.

Now the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine has now given them the all-clear to fly again, after tests in an altitude chamber found the teacakes did not explode.”

I just had to buy some and I wanted to recreate the exploding marshmallow confection by placing it in the microwave oven, but I was not allowed to do so.
(Spoilsport)

An appropriate Blip for my 4500th entry and Silly Saturday