I need to eat more french fries.

[theweaselking]

Here's your grenade -- you want fries with that?

Workers at a British factory making French fries were evacuated two days running last week after bomb parts turned up in potatoes imported from France and Belgium.

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.

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[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's what you get when planting potatoes in the fields of Ypres. Presumably when potatoes were still harvested by hand the farmers would recognise/discard/dispose of/whatever the stuff that wasn't potatoes, but I'm pretty sure that there are now potato harvesting machines and equally pretty sure they're not set up to distinguish a round plant thing from a round metal thing.