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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Exploding Canadian Potatoes.............
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:18:28 -0700
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I've had baking potatoes explode in the oven, but those ones would have
really made a mess!

Margaret in BC



At 03:11 PM 22/05/06, wrote:
>
>Explosives found in potatoes at McCain plant
>
> (javascript:sendit();)
>(http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006/05/22/pf-1592297.html)
>(http://rapids.canoe.ca/cgi-bin/reg/NR-cust_service.pl?MODE=CUSTOMER_SERVICE&LOOK=CNEWS)
>
>LONDON (AP) - Workers at a Canadian-owned factory in northern England had to
>be evacuated on two consecutive days last week when armaments dating to the
>First World War were discovered in batches of imported European potatoes,
>the
>company said Monday.
>McCain Foods - the world's largest producer of frozen french fries - said
>employees at its plant in Scarborough, 400 kilometres north of London,
>discovered a suspected hand grenade on Saturday, a day after a shell tip
>was found
>among a batch of potatoes.
>On both occasions, police and bomb squad officials set up a 100-metre
>exclusion zone and the devices were detonated in controlled explosions,
>a statement
>from the company said.
>"There was no danger to the general public on either days," it added.
>(Thats just called Potato surprise.....................)
>
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