Next door (maybe) stole my crumble!?

[jainaproudm]

Have name changed in case my neighbours are on here and this whole scenario is just so bizarre...

I left a tray of just baked crumble on the garden table to cool about half an hour ago, covered in foil.

Just now I looked out the back window and ... It's gone. The whole thing. The way our terrace works, anyone who wanted to enter our back garden would have to come through five others, and the back wall is too high to climb/jump. So I really doubt an aspiring burglar has made it all the way down without being spotted at this time, then decided all they'd take was a crumble? Which leads me to believe it's more likely to be a neighbour, specifically next door...

To preempt any questions:

• It isn't in a fancy Le Creuset pan or anything, just a bog standard Sainbury's ceramic tray.

• I'm home alone and my DH isn't due back until late tonight (plus I have no idea why he would sneak home, hide the crumble and then not come in...)

• It is far too heavy for a fox or giant bird to move even if they did suddenly take a shine to home baking.

• Next door are unlikely to be stealing it out of hunger - this is a pretty expensive area to live (we rent but most others here own and they're not cheap), plus plenty of holidays, nice cars etc. Admittedly here I am guessing as I've no idea what their actual financial situation is, but outwardly at least they don't look on the breadline.

So... What the fuck? My AIBU is WIBU to go and politely ask next door if they thought I was covertly leaving them a gift!?

I know your angry Jaina but please don't resort to genocide :)

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If you're posting on here you KNOW what you have to do...

Log it with 101, obvs.

I think we need a diagram.

But you absolutely have to go and (politely) ask the neighbours and then you HAVE to report back. Thems the MN rulz

I put it outside to cool because I'm taking it to my mum's shortly and wanted it to go a bit more 'set' iyswim before I put it on the passenger seat of the car - and yep, far too hot for crumble for me, but my mum isn't well and that's what she wanted!

This is literally the storyline of a book I had as a child called Kitty Kettle. It turned out to be the village policeman who dunnit.

What type of fruit was in the crumble and did you use oats or cinnamon in the topping?

Hahahha @LivingDeadGirlUK ;) I'll try my best...

Cry and sob a bit when you visit neighbors

No crimble crumble?!

You’ve put it somewhere else. It’s in a cupboard somewhere I reckon. You’ll find it in about a week.

Have you checked your dishwasher?

This will be an easy one to solve.

Do you have a blue and white stripey jug? If so, make a quick jug full of custard, put it out where you left the crumble, walk away whistling then hide behind the curtains and wait.. The culprit will soon appear to steal the custard to go with the stolen crumble .Then you will know .

Not placemarking

I kind of hope they have !! That'd be nuts.

Not the crimble crumble. I bet it was Jim.

I would be beyond devastated if this happened to me. I bloody love crumble.

Look in the fridge and the freezer.

Could it be in the car?

My money's on the teenager & his friends doing it for a larf

@viques

brilliant idea!

possible a neighbour stole it as a prank?

You don't put foil over a steaming just-baked crumble. It makes the crumble craggy.

I'd say a crumble purist put it out of its misery.

Sooooo... VERY boring explanation, sorry. Apparently the fat ginger cat belonging to someone in our row was sniffing about so the (very nice, non-theiving) lady next door put it in my shed to hide it. She did knock to tell me but I've been in the shower and didn't hear and was going to pop round after she'd fed the children to let me know

I feel like a paranoid crumble hoarder now!

Do you have a blue and white stripey jug? If so, make a quick jug full of custard, put it out where you left the crumble, walk away whistling then hide behind the curtains and wait..

love it definitely do this!

Claggy not craggy.

Also, I didn't actually know that @tawdrylocalbrouhaha! I am not an experience crumbler (obviously, as crumble 101 would be don't leave it outside for nosy cats). Noted for next time I attempt one...