Harish Palaniappan's

While somebody found an artillery tip out of a potato, another person found a full live hand-grenade inside a potato. These were discovered by staff of McCains in their british factory which makes frozen french fries out of potatoes.

They move potatoes from their harvest areas to manufacturing plants where they are cleaned and processed. During the manual cleaning /checking processes they have occassionally spotted bombs, artilleries and some weapon pieces it seems. The potatoes are from the area which was once a World War II zone, and the potatoes seem to grow covering and containing the memorabilia interestingly.

The news items further says:

The Scarborough plant, located in northern England, was opened in 1969 and uses 1,400 tons of potatoes every week. Production is back to normal.

McCain’s Whittlesey plant near Peterborough in eastern England has also been evacuated several times this year after WWII ordnance was found in batches of potatoes.

“Occasionally during the use of imported potatoes from Belgium and northern France, ordnance debris from the First and Second World War is found,” McCain said in a statement.

If you are in britain, the next time you buy potatoes, or buy french fries from Mc.Cains make sure to check it with metal detectors before biting on the bomb. :o)

When i read it first, i remembered the names 'potato bomb', 'onion bomb', .. that we give to particular kind of fire crackers here in chennai. But none of these bombs here produce a potato mash, or onion pungent smell... which would probably be the case if the potato bombs in britain were blown up.

But anyways, it would have been interesting to see such a potato which grew up with a bomb. :o) Bold fellow.

Read the full news here...msnbc.com