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Ben Macklin

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Mascarpone

Weekly Contest #339

I went to the shop. It was closed. So, I kicked the closed door that was supposed to open at my mere presence. It didn’t budge. I need mascarpone. Doesn’t’ the world realise that I need mascarpone. I have specific instructions from my wife not to come home without mascarpone. And now the world is putting up barriers in my quest to retrieve the fabled Lombardy whipped cheese. What kind of a hick town shuts its doors to mascarpone hunters at 10:35 pm? Hicksville. That’s where I live. A backwater in the soft dairy universe. What even is mascarp...

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Mascarpone

I went to the shop. It was closed. So, I kicked the closed door that was supposed to open at my mere presence. It didn’t budge. I need mascarpone. Doesn’t’ the world realise that I need mascarpone. I have specific instructions from my wife not to come home without mascarpone. And now the world is putting up barriers in my quest to retrieve the fabled Lombardy whipped cheese. What kind of a hick town shuts its doors to mascarpone hunters at 10:35 pm? Hicksville. That’s where I live. A backwater in the soft dairy universe. What even is mascarp...

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