Food With A Bang!
Who says Britain is a dull place? Twice last week a processing plant that makes frozen French fries had to be evacuated when pieces of explosive ordnance turned up among the potatoes.
The Scarborough plant, owned by Canada's McCain Foods, the world's largest producer of frozen fries, was emptied Friday after a worker spotted a shell tip among the potatoes as they were being cleaned for slicing.
"The police were called and the bomb squad advised a 100 meter exclusion zone should be set up," said a McCain spokesman.
Saturday, an entire hand grenade was discovered in the potatoes and the plant in northern England was evacuated again.
Apparently, the explosive bits are coming in from France and Belgium and are leftovers from the first and second world wars. Now Mom used to make some pretty lethal things out of leftovers. I'm glad she never got ahold of any of these!
Ordnance, Weird Stuff, World news | Gaius Monday, 22 May , 2006
By the constant skeptic, Wednesday, 6 December , 2006 @ 12:09 pm
Like your post, I was going back over this story on my site and found it by accident to be really funny and strange all over again. OH, and down with those gun control crazies!