SUMNER DAIRY SELLS OUT OF HOT CHIPS DURING POWER CUT NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN
The fryer was off. The chips kept coming. Locals queued anyway.
A Sumner dairy on the main drag sold out of hot chips during Wednesday's three-hour power cut, despite the fryer being switched off.
The outage hit just after 2pm. Traffic lights died. EFTPOS died. The bakery two doors down shut. The dairy's chip warmer, also off, kept dispensing chips to a queue that formed in minutes.
Customer Hema Watene, 34, walked down from Wakefield Ave assuming the dairy would be shut. "Door was open. Bloke had a head torch on. Chips were warm. I didn't ask questions, mate. Paid cash and left."
The owner, asked how the chips were being cooked, gestured at the back of the shop and said the situation was "under control". Pressed on whether they'd been done that morning, he said "some of them".
Orion confirmed power was out to the block from 2.04pm to 5.12pm. A spokesperson said they couldn't comment on the chips as the chips were "not a network asset".
The dairy reopened Thursday with a handwritten sign reading CHIPS BACK ON. Stocks sold out again by lunchtime.
The outage hit just after 2pm. Traffic lights died. EFTPOS died. The bakery two doors down shut. The dairy's chip warmer, also off, kept dispensing chips to a queue that formed in minutes.
Customer Hema Watene, 34, walked down from Wakefield Ave assuming the dairy would be shut. "Door was open. Bloke had a head torch on. Chips were warm. I didn't ask questions, mate. Paid cash and left."
The owner, asked how the chips were being cooked, gestured at the back of the shop and said the situation was "under control". Pressed on whether they'd been done that morning, he said "some of them".
Orion confirmed power was out to the block from 2.04pm to 5.12pm. A spokesperson said they couldn't comment on the chips as the chips were "not a network asset".
The dairy reopened Thursday with a handwritten sign reading CHIPS BACK ON. Stocks sold out again by lunchtime.