How often you do or don’t cut your grass can be a somewhat controversial topic. In most neighborhoods, there’s an understanding that if you live next to someone, you’ve got to keep your lawn in reasonable condition.
Though long grass can be a great attraction for bees and pollinators , it can also be a breeding ground for ticks and mosquitos (not to mention, it looks a lot messier than most neighbors would like). Which brings us to Reddit user JacobHacks .
It all started when his neighbor wouldn’t cut their grass.
Finding himself in his own grassy situation , JacobHacks became increasingly frustrated by his neighbor’s overgrown lawn. Watching and waiting as it grew longer and longer, Hacks finally gave in to his own version of retaliation: baking bread.
So he decided to harvest all their grass seeds.
Harvesting the grass in a passive-aggressive burst of chaos, Hacks figured that if you could make bread out of wheat, why not grass?
Met with initial food poisoning concerns, Reddit user vestiaria decreed that though an excess of grass may cause vomiting, “since this was made of seeds I would guess it’s perfectly digestible. Wheat, after all, is a type of grass”.
Then he ground them up to make flour.
Grinding the seeds into a fine powder, Hacks then proceeded to add ingredients like he would with any other kind of flour.
Unaware at the time that food poisoning was even a consideration, BritishViking_ reassures him that “apparently humans can eat grass you just won’t get any nutritional value from it”. They also state that “It may at most cause vomiting or [diarrhea] if you consume enough of it, but it is essentially non-toxic and technically edible”.
Mixing the ingredients together, he shaped it into a loaf and left it to rise.
Forming the dough into a densely packed loaf, he sliced the surface and sprinkled it with flour, ready to be popped in the oven and baked.
Happily thinking about his edible revenge, he pulled out a knife and got ready to chow down.
Fresh from the oven, the bread was ready for eating.
Finally finished, the baked loaf looks… if not ideal, definitely edible. (And also a little like a cow plop.) After tasting the first slice of his hard work, Hacks concludes that it “tast[ed] like bread. Not good, but not bad”.
Gaining a lot of support for their witty reaction, Reddit user edgarallanpot8o said it best, responding “I hate that you did this, but I love the chaotic energy”.
What do you think of Hacks’ Revenge?
And though his neighbor never got to see the results of Hacks’ retaliation, if he added enough honey to the loaf, I’m sure revenge tasted very sweet indeed.
What do you think of Jacob Hacks’ reaction, should he get over it and let grass be grass? Or is it a great way to make [bread] out of lemonade? Let us know in the comments below.
