Can you get drunk eating hot cross buns? We have the explanation for this viral phenomenon.
There is a simple explanation for the viral video and no, it isn’t a conspiracy theory.
A video showing a completely sober policeman eating hot cross buns before blowing a breathalyser and coming up as intoxicated on the reading has Twitter in an uproar, but a simple Google search quickly reveals the reasons for this strange occurrence. In January 2018 the phenomenon of the “alcoholic hot cross buns” went viral in Australia after a trucking company named “Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls Inc.” posted a video very similar to the one generated by the anonymous police officer here in South Africa.
Just like in the local video, a trucker in the video blew into a breathalyzer to produce a 0.000 reading, demonstrating that she had not consumed any alcohol, before taking a bite of a hot cross bun, swallowing and then immediately recording a reading of a 0.018 BAC reading. Naturally, British tabloid papers then blew the video out of proportion by claiming that eating hot cross buns can get you arrested. This has been a similar reaction by some of South Africa’s top “influencers” who have used to the new video to call for investigations and craft conspiracy theories.Surely there must be some malfunction here?Can the authorities clarify please!
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