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The (occasionally known as the "''Vessel for
Disaccharides ''" or
V.F.D. ) is a mysterious
Plot Device from ''
A Series Of Unfortunate Events .''
It was first mentioned in where it becomes apparent that it contains an object of great power or danger, and is the target of both sides of V.F.D. It is also possible that the sugar bowl contains an unknown object that has the power to possibly overthrow V.F.D enemies when required. It is also possible that it is not even a sugar bowl. The only other object that can destroy more effectively is the fungus Medusoid Mycelium (first mentioned in book 11).
Lemony Snicket 's narration has been pivotal in exploring the sugar bowl's relevance to the overall plot. He has indicated that he and his lover
Beatrice stole the sugar bowl.
According to
Esmé Squalor , it was hers and
Beatrice stole it from her.
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, on pages 84 through 85, there is a letter from the Vineyard of Fragrant Drapes to Mr. Snicket, congratulating him on his wedding with Beatrice, however there is a secret encoded in the letter by use of the Sebald code, and it states:
Hello. If you are alive do not come here the count will burn you and Beatrice stay away.
The letter mentions that the sugar bowls will all be in place at their wedding.
Then, on pages 87 through 88, there is a very similar message to Jerome Squalor congratulating him on his marriage to Esmé Squalor, however the words that were used to display the message to Snicket were gone, and it was just an ordinary letter. It also stated that the Vineyard, sadly, could not supply the sugar bowls they requested. This could explain why Esmé said the sugar bowl was hers and Beatrice stole it from her, however she said the sugar bowl, singular, not plural, and the Vineyard mentioned multiple sugar bowls.
During the burning of the V.F.D. headquarters in the
Mortmain Mountains , a kind volunteer threw the bowl out the window into the Stricken Stream, knowing it would wash away and be saved from the villains.
Klaus Baudelaire and
Captain Widdershins believed it to have washed into the
Gorgonian Grotto , but when the grotto was explored, the bowl was found to have already been removed.
The bowl has V.F.D. initials, namely "vessel for disaccharides."
In ''
The Penultimate Peril '', the sugar bowl was brought to the
Hotel Denouement by V.F.D.
Crows . The plan, on the villains' part, was to capture it by harpooning the crows, but due to the quick actions of
Dewey Denouement , a plan was put in place to prevent the villains from securing it. The volunteers and villains originally thought it had fallen into the laundry room, but the Baudelaires later conclude that the sugar bowl had fallen into the pond. However, in a twist, Snicket implies that someone - possibly himself - has retrieved the bowl from the pond and carried it away by
Taxi shortly before the destruction of the hotel. (Due to a reference to a woman hidden in the taxi's trunk, and an earlier reference to a woman in a diving suit, some believe that the taxi-driver had help in retrieving the sugar bowl from the mysterious swimming woman who enticed
Captain Widdershins and
Phil away from the ''
Queequeg '' in Book 11.)
The bowl will undoubtedly feature prominently in the series' final book,
Book The Thirteenth .
