Student cooks delicious brownies as revenge against annoying teammates: ‘Even years later, I occasionally get a message from a group member asking for the recipe. I ignored them all’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jul 12, 2026 4:00 PM EDT

Revenge is delicious

I never thought baking delicious brownies could be implemented as a revenge tactic. Being 100% honest, I don't even think the people who ate them understood it as such, but I've now got to a way deeper realization: Maybe the only one who needs to feel the revenge worked is the one who did it. It would all be better that way; we would live in a world full of sweet, harmless revenges that satisfy the avenger only while nobody else notices. Let's read this Redditor's story and evaluate if he's the only one who understood it as revenge, or if it was so perfect and elegant that I can't fully comprehend it.

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    The man cooking the brownies

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  • Teammates were annoying so I made them the best brownies of their life

    A few years ago I was grouped with a couple of teammates on a group project. From the get-go we were not clicking well.
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  • They were a type of people I can only describe as vegetarian idealists. Now I don't mind that type of person generally but it got to the point where the
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  • entire project took on a decidedly preachy tone and there was hardly any room for a different approach.
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  • They were constantly throwing little comments my way that made it clear they thought they were better than me. like "I could never be okay with
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  • having a ham sandwich" and "Well you should have cycled today instead of coming with your car". This came to a head when
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  • they decided they wanted to go visit several farmers to talk about sustainable agriculture. Something I felt was unnecessary and complicated research for
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  • the sake of basically going on a fieldtrip. This would also have taken multiple days out of our already packed schedule.
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  • So I refused to go, I told them I was fine with them going, but that I felt I was already more than pulling my weight on the project. I
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  • explained that I did not feel like spending my time on something that ultimately would not contribute to the project. To their credit they were very understanding.
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  • They left the next week and in total spent around 3 full days of our final week on this.
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  • Because I stayed home I got stuck with finishing the actual research while their excursions ultimately became little more than a footnote in the final report.
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  • This did not sit right with me, but since the end was in sight I did not feel like making a big deal out of it so I let it go. Mostly...
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  • As we were finishing up the project we decided to do a potluck and each. bring something we made at home. Now this is where my plan started to hatch. I
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  • have a ki er brownie recipe. They are incredibly moist and very flavorful and I have honestly just been disappointed by any other brownie since.
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  • So come the potluck I brought a full tray of these brownies and of course they loved it. Everyone
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  • came for seconds and the entire thing was empty before the end of the day. Then came the inquiries
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  • for the recipe. "omg these are so good, please send the recipe to me". "No way I need this recipe!". Of course I promised I would sent it at a later time, but
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  • a pile of brownies
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    The most delicious brownies ever

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  • never planned on doing that. I kept coming up with excuses like "oh I forgot, i'll def send it tonight".
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  • Eventually we finished the project, we got good grades and went our separate ways. But even years later I occasionally
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  • get a message from a group member asking for the recipe. I ignored them all. I feel satisfied knowing
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  • they will probably never have a brownie that was better than mine. Which I feel like is a fitting punishment for a minor annoyance.
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  • a recipe book
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    The secret recipe

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  • I know this is a trite concept, but we lived an entire moment as a society where everyone was crazy about vegetarianism and veganism. I WANNA SAY I'M NOT AGAINST IT; so don’t come at me, please, just that there was a moment a few years ago where everyone and their mothers had become vegan and were starting rather extreme debates online, such as: if you eat meat, you therefore have no empathy towards the human condition, lol. Anyway, I love how this teammate was polite enough not to snap at them while they were on their excursion and he was still working on the investigation. What’s even better is that he decided to get revenge through BROWNIES, lol; I can’t get over it. I don’t think the teammates are suffering all that much because he never gives them the recipe, but I do think it might be mildly infuriating for them, which in turn might be even worse as a feeling? I think I’m inspired…

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