Putrid pudding puts out Pamplona plane passengers

By Snunk Nikley

A trans-Atlantic flight bound from New York to the Spanish city of Pamplona was diverted on Sunday to Barcelona International Airport after as many as 24 passengers sustained food poisoning.

According to an anonymous, unknown spokesperson with Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, at least 22 people were transported to the hospital after having been served chocolate-mustard pudding during the flight by unknown, anonymous flight attendants. The hospital spokesperson said that all the affected passengers were in satisfactory condition as this edition of The Metropolitan went to press.

The flight was originally destined for Pamplona Airport, located in Valle de Elorz, near the capital city of Spain’s Navarre region. The city is known for encierro, or “The Running of the Bulls,” made famous in Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises. Encierro is part of Fiesta de San Fermín.

In a baffling development, officials with Aena, the government-owned company that manages all Spanish airports, admitted that some Barcelona airport ground crew-members were also sickened by the pudding on the trans-Atlantic flight, and were taken to the same hospital.

However, they insisted, the pain in Spain was mainly on the plane.