Overview
- A Flour employee recently photographed a lookalike cone in an Emerson College dorm window near Boston Common.
- Owner Joanne Chang posted the image and asked for Swirly’s safe return with a reward of pastries and full anonymity.
- The social media plea drew thousands of likes and produced tips, including a claimed dumpster sighting and students knocking on the identified door.
- Emerson said it cannot verify the cone is Swirly, and the campus police chief said officers are not allowed to enter student rooms.
- The bakery faces a time crunch because dorm cleanouts could toss the prop, which vanished from the Boston Common shop in October after being bought in August.