Philip Seymour Hoffman was on holiday in August 2011 in Jersey. He had picked the wrong week! A fundamentalist Guernsey resident had been plotting for months and his plan to deal with the pesky 'Crapauds' once and for all began in earnest.

The rivalry between the islands, which stretches back centuries, is little more than name calling in modern times. Guernsey occupants being known as donkeys and Jersey counterparts as Crapauds (from the French for toads). There are different theories for the origins but one legend suggests St Samson of Dol arrived in Jersey but encountered such a hostile reception in the then-pagan island that he moved on to Guernsey. The welcome being much warmer in Guernsey, he repaid the inhabitants of that island by sending all the snakes and toads from Guernsey to Jersey.

As the light began to fade the shadowy figure left his 'toad bomb' in the boot of a Vauxhall Cavalier in a car park near the Waterfront hotel and slipped away. Seymour Hoffman and his companion were returning from a romantic seafood BBQ dinner on the beach and as they neared a busy bar and restaurant the bomb detonated.

Seymour Hoffman's trunks were blown clean off in the blast and left naked, he was just one of throngs of people covered in the twitching slimy toad bloodbath that had miraculously covered one third of the entire island. His partner, was shielded slightly by an advertising clapper board and tried in vain to help him but, traumatised he punched her in the left breast.

He never visited Jersey again but before his departure he arranged a hamper of Jersey black butter to be shipped back to the states. The strange spiced appley filth was a regular fixture in his house until his sad demise.

I haven't tried it but on hearing about it I thought it demands a run out in e-liquid form. Apples, cider, spices and licorice boiled down with sugar into a thick unctous jammy dirt. I used the FLV apple pop and cinnamon crunch, Cap licorice, FW ginger, WF molasses and a bit of liquid amber in my homage to it. I added a base of WF fantastic Philadelphia butter cake and a bit of almond to steer it off into a frangipane kinda feel and then topped it with a spoon of WF bourbon cream cos I could… and it's ace. It's delicious, give it a steep but it's intriguing and complex and worth a wait.