#0489

kirby has returned with his snacks he went to get [yesterday]! he got grapes and ice cream, and ingredients for spaghetti.

Hello, @bigpoppajunior!

This theory is very popular because it fits into the timeline neatly (the first sugar bowl mentions crop up after the events of “All The Wrong Questions”, not before) and provides valid reasons for both sides of the Schism to seize the contents of the sugar bowl. When “All The Wrong Questions” came out, Daniel Handler really made it seem as if he were developing the lore of the Bombinating Beast as a way to tie in the loose ends of the sugar bowl mystery.

There are two big objections to this theory, however:

Throughout “All The Wrong Questions”, we see that the volunteers and Lemony’s friends are desperatly looking for a precious, small object that’s kept hidden in a museum and tied to the V.F.D mystery. That suspiciously sounds like the sugar bowl but can’t be the Bombinating Beast because they had never heard of the statue at this point. Besides, the precious object is in the city, while the Bombinating Beast is in Stain’d-by-the-way. So if the sugar bowl contains the Bombinating Beast, we end up with an entirely new unresolved mystery, this time about the precious object… And that would be hugely unstatisfying narratively.

Daniel Handler recently said in an interview that the entire sugar bowl mystery was supposed to be solvable, and that one person, every year, gets it right. So if this mystery was always supposed to be solvable, that means that Daniel Handler thought it was solvable when “The End” was published, back in 2006. But the Bombinating Beast first appeared in 2012 with the first “All the Wrong Questions” book. No one could have guessed something that hadn’t been introduced yet. Furthermore, Handler’s comment about only 1 person a year guessing it right suggests that the most popular theories are wrong. And the idea that the sugar bowl contains the Bombinating Beast is VERY popular.

It's a little cramped in here for any sort of proper reckless pogoing. You'll just grab it and hang on to it until the right moment presents itself.