It used to be an underhand trick of greengrocers to sell you potatoes with a lot of dried mud clinging to them – you came to expect that, but what you wouldn’t expect is a hand grenade, which is precisely what one customer from Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz found in his bag of potatoes.
The potatoes in question had come from an area on the border of France and Belgium, so the chances are that the grenade dates back to the Second World War. The explosive spud was identified as a standard-issue British Mills bomb. The reason that it could be mistaken for a potato was that it was completely petrified – not as petrified as the customer, mind.
Anyway, the Guardia Civil came around, played football with it for 20 minutes and then took it away…
(News: Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz, Andalucia)
