The Fruit Salad Olympics – Day Twelve
Image Description: A cheerful illustrated poster for the Fruit Salad Olympics. Set against a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds, the image shows four anthropomorphic fruits — a smiling strawberry, a happy pineapple, a cheerful blueberry, and a lively banana — all leaping joyfully with their arms raised. Above them, large cream-colored text clearly reads “FRUIT SALAD OLYMPICS” in bold block letters. Below the title are the five Olympic-style rings in blue, black, red, yellow, and green. The entire scene is flat and cartoonish in style, using clean lines, vivid colors, and a playful tone
The Fruit Salad Olympics – Day Twelve: Custard Craters and Splat Sprints
Things got sticky today in the most spectacular way. Day Twelve brought custard-based catastrophe, heroic fruit flailing, and a final sprint so fast it peeled the paint off the smoothie coolers.
Event One: The Custard Crater Jump Set in the newly constructed Pudding Pit Arena, this long jump variant saw competitors launching themselves over a jelly ramp and aiming for distance… before splatting into a giant vat of thick, cold vanilla custard.
Each jump was judged on distance, landing style, and the size of the splash.
Finalists included:
* Banana B.A. Peel (returning custard champion from a training camp incident)
* Kiwi Kim (surprisingly aerodynamic)
* Olive (Team Medley’s daredevil)
* Mango Max (who shouted “FOR THE FRUIT!” every time he ran)
Highlights:
* Olive did a triple spin and landed like a spoonful of elegance.
* Kiwi Kim’s jump was flawless… until her pip ricocheted and hit a judge.
* Banana B.A. Peel belly-flopped with a yell and got stuck in the custard upside down. His feet twitched for thirty seconds before he popped out and posed.
* Mango Max misjudged the launch and landed directly in the referee’s sandwich. Nobody was mad. It was hilarious.
Gold: Banana B.A. Peel Silver: Olive Bronze: Kiwi Kim
Event Two: Splat Sprint (Fruit Bowl 400) A classic dash — but with hurdles made of jelly cubes, and a custard-slicked final stretch.
Competitors:
* Clementine Chloe
* Pineapple Pete
* Ruby Raspberry
* Gooseberry Gus
Highlights:
* Ruby Raspberry nearly lost control but recovered with a barrel roll.
* Pete’s hair caught the wind and worked like a sail.
* Gooseberry Gus tried to take a shortcut and ran into a sponsorship banner.
* But Clementine Chloe slid the final ten metres like a citrus torpedo and splashed across the finish line in record time.
Gold: Clementine Chloe Silver: Ruby Raspberry Bronze: Pineapple Pete
Elsewhere at the Games:
* Granny Smith refused to jump into custard. “I’m a fruit, not a pudding.”
* Figaro the Fig was seen composing a new ballad: “Elegy in E-Clair.”
* A strange faint humming was heard beneath the Pudding Pit Arena after the event. One judge described it as “a whirring… like an electric whisk whispering secrets.”
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