In a world where people drive giant garbage trucks full of dough around the highway for a living, the threat of a code red yeast-activation lurks around every corner. And on one especially hot day this week in Tacoma, Washington, that bread-rising nightmare became a reality for one unlucky dough dump truck driver. Due to the unusually warm temperatures on Monday, the dough exploded out of the top and sides of the semi, like a giant Pillsbury Crescent Roll tube that was bashed on the countertop by an angry toddler. Thankfully, no one was injured in the great dough truck debacle, but the local news teams — and the state trooper who assisted the truck drive in the clean-up — simply could not resist making some groan-worthy dough/bread jokes on social media:
DOUGH! It's so hot in Tacoma the dough inside this semi-truck started rising, leaving a gooey mess all over the highway. pic.twitter.com/DdQQ1q12fy
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 26, 2017
Whole-y grain Batman! It's messy but it's not a hazard! I'm on a roll. pic.twitter.com/M5ntoirtJG
— Trooper Brooke Bova (@wspd1pio) July 24, 2017
Get a loaf of this! Truck carrying dough overflows onto road after hot weather makes it rise https://t.co/9AyYr1ekZh
— Evening Standard (@standardnews) July 27, 2017
This driver may “knead” a bigger truck. https://t.co/kEtYNfX8zP
— FOX59 News (@FOX59) July 25, 2017
Heat causes dough in truck to rise, overflow. You 'knead' to see pics https://t.co/hdEafW6abY pic.twitter.com/97R6Dzwy0n
— NDTV (@ndtv) July 26, 2017
Dough! Truck hauling yeast overflows with gooey mess on I-5
— KOMO News (@komonews) July 24, 2017
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https://t.co/imy7PdAaX9 pic.twitter.com/C2kXE5hIRd
And here’s just a funny tweet:
So when it gets too hot dough can burst out of a semi truck during transport? Yeah well anyone who's ever worn Spanx could of told you that!
— ✨Wendydarling✨ (@wendchymes) July 27, 2017
The contents of the truck were actually dough waste headed to a farm to feed livestock.
• Truck Full of Dough Rises Ahead of Schedule [Atlas Obscura]
• High temps cause dough to rise and spill out of delivery truck on highway [Twitter Moments]