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this was too good to pass up.....
Posted on 05/22/2006 2:44:14 PM PDT by oxcart
York - 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 site of battles in World War 1 and 2.
The Scarborough plant, owned by Canada's McCain Foods, the world's largest producer of frozen fries, was emptied on 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 100m exclusion zone should be set up," said a McCain spokesperson.
On Saturday, an entire hand grenade was discovered in the potatoes and the plant in northern England was evacuated again.
A spokesperson for North Yorkshire police said "The army took the device away and blew it up in a controlled explosion in a field nearby."
Second factory also has been evacuated
The Scarborough plant was opened in 1969 and uses 1 400 tons of potatoes a week. Production is back to normal.
McCain's Whittlesey plant near Peterborough in eastern England also has also been evacuated several times this year after World War 2 ordnance was found in batches of potatoes.
"Occasionally during the use of imported potatoes from Belgium and northern France, ordnance debris from the World War 1 and 2 is found," said the firm.
I imagine it would be a real eye opener to come across a grenade in a batch of potatoes.Maybe the farmers ought to go over"the produce"with a metal detector before shipping?
Someone set us up the bomb!
Some areas in France were subject to so many millions of WW1 artillery shells exploding that the ground is saturated with steel fragments. Aircraft compasses go haywire over some of these areas. Then, along comes WW2 to add millions more tons of artillery, aircraft bombs, and infantry weapons.
All your fries are belong to us...
So, were the spuds duds?
Canada ping, sort of....
I'm sure that, in the end, this is McDonald's fault. In addition to little Billy & Amy's obesity.
That is, we produced millions and millions and millions of bullets, artillery shells, bombs and other things that go boom, bang and ka-boom.
When you think about it, we used up a lot of stuff in World War Two. Airplanes, jeeps, tanks, rifles, canteens, chewing gum, cigarettes, boats and ships of all sizes.
It was a lot of stuff.
That's why I go low-carb. Potatoes make me blow right up.
lol!
Exploding fries......
I recommend checking the pineapples real carefully, too.
(snicker) Yes it was...8^)
LOL
They still occasionally run across American Civil War era munitions from time to time...
Is it Thursday the remnants of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann are supposed rain down on the UN?
In the 1980s, I heard a story about a farmer who cut down a tree in France near Verdun, and sat down on the stump to have lunch.
Eight hours later, he was admitted the hospital with massive blisters on his buttocks and the backs of his legs.
Turns out that the tree was saturated with mustard gas for almost 70 years.
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