If custard creams aren’t your thing, then how about bourbons?
Cumbria’s mysterious guerilla art collective has struck again – and this time it’s teasing a new golden biscuit trail in Carlisle.
Cumberland Objects – who claim they don’t actually exist – have now turned their attention to bourbons.
The trail will be the third of its kind in Cumbria after dozens of gold custard creams have been spotted around Carlisle since Christmas and half-eaten golden pies were recently installed around Whitehaven and Cleator Moor.
If you’ve been lucky enough to spot a custard cream – you may have noticed a QR code beside it, that takes you to the collective’s website.
It shares location clues for 50 custard creams in Carlisle and seven pies around Whitehaven and Cleator Moor.
The website is yet to feature the bourbon locations – but each trail encourages people to embark on scavenger hunts to find them all.
The group said: “A whole batch of these chocolatey wonders are planning to break free from the factory and scatter themselves across the city.
“Keep your eyes peeled – they could be anywhere!”
While the group is yet to reveal more information on the biscuits, it is thought to pay homage to McVitie’s, where they are made along with custard creams.
Cumberland Objects is a project to celebrate the obscure and uncelebrated anecdotal heritage of Cumbria.
Nobody knows who is behind the Banksy-like project – but when approached by Cumbria Crack, they told us they wanted the focus to be on the joy they were bringing, and not on their intriguing group identity.
As part of the wider project, the collective recently staged a ‘theft’ of Carlisle’s cursing stone.
The group shared a short video on Facebook featuring a gang of masked people hauling the Cursing Stone out of the underpass, using ropes, before dragging it through the streets at the dead of night and throwing it in the river.
After we published a story on the video, we were sent a mysterious message by the group.
They said: “If anyone asks, we decided to take action after the Gillingham game. Something had to be done.
“We did it for United, for Carlisle and for freedom. And maybe it will help get the city centre fixed on time.
“Big up the Blues. Tonight is a challenge, but at least that stone has been sorted.”
The collective is also collecting hyper-local stories, tales and urban legends to share on its website.
The location of three unusual signs related to these stories can also be found on the website.
One of which we found in Cleator Moor, referencing the town’s old Co-op building.
