The Sauce That Went Bang!

Copper Band 12

THE SAUCE THAT WENT BANG!

Josh and Zena are bored of vegetables.

They have a cunning plan to invent a sauce so SPECIAL it changes the taste of food forever.

But there is one problem with Special Sauce.

A teeny tiny problem that is bubbling over, about to EXPLODE.

A humorous story collins.co.uk/collinsbigcat

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Written by Abie Longstaff Illustrated by Diego Funck

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It was a normal day. It was an ordinary lunchtime.

But life was about to change forever …

Mum and Dad and Josh and Zena were sitting at the kitchen table.

“Don’t play with your lettuce, Zena,” said Mum. “What’s wrong with your carrots, Josh?” said Dad. “Eat up!”

Josh sighed and put down his fork. “These carrots are so … boring,” he said. “They just taste of carrot.”

“Yeah,” Zena grumbled. “And this lettuce isn’t … special. It only tastes of ... lettuce.”

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“Wait a minute – ” Josh leapt onto his chair.

“Let’s make something!” he declared.

“Yes!” cried Zena, climbing up to join him.

“Something to make food taste special.”

“No longer will carrots taste of carrot,” announced Josh.

“No more will lettuce taste of lettuce,” proclaimed Zena.

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Josh and Zena poured and mixed and shook and stirred. They added sweet things and wet things, crunchy things and soft things, and hot things and cold things. But the mixture didn’t taste special.

“It needs to dance on the lips!” said Josh.

“It should zing on the tongue!” cried Zena.

“We want a flavour that explodes in the mouth!” they insisted.

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They added: jumping beans for dancing, nettle for zing, popcorn for KA-POW!!

They tasted it …

It danced! It zinged! It exploded in the mouth!

Josh and Zena looked at each other in glee. They had invented a sauce! The best sauce in the world.

“All food will taste of this sauce,” they promised.

“All food will be special!”

They called it: Special Sauce™.

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From that day on, the family had Special Sauce™ with everything they ate. Mum poured it on eggs.

Josh and Zena put it in sandwiches. And Dad served it to guests with pride. Soon all the kids at school and all the neighbours in the street wanted Special Sauce™.

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Josh and Zena were super busy. They worked in the mornings before school, and in the evenings after school, and Saturdays and Sundays.

“We can’t keep up with the demand!” said Josh, swaying with exhaustion.

“Our sauce is so popular,” gasped Zena, her fingers aching from screwing caps onto bottles.

Mum and Dad left their jobs to help. Mum bought the ingredients, Dad mixed them up, Zena poured the sauce into bottles, and Josh sold the bottles in the front yard.

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Word spread, and soon the whole town ... the whole country … the whole world demanded Special Sauce™.

Bottles were on the tables in all the restaurants and all the cafés. Supermarkets stocked Special Sauce™ ice-cream and Special Sauce™ cereal, Special Sauce™ pet food and even Special Sauce™ toothpaste.

Every family on the planet happily covered their breakfast, lunch and dinner in Special Sauce™. Now all food tasted only of Special Sauce™.

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Copper Band 12

THE SAUCE THAT WENT BANG!

Josh and Zena are bored of vegetables.

They have a cunning plan to invent a sauce so SPECIAL it changes the taste of food forever.

But there is one problem with Special Sauce.

A teeny tiny problem that is bubbling over, about to EXPLODE.

A humorous story collins.co.uk/collinsbigcat

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22/10/2021 08:56