Old Ammunition in French Fries

LONDON (AP) - May 23, 2006 - There was more than ketchup
in the fries.

Workers at a french fries factory in northern England had
to be evacuated twice last week because of bombs in the
spuds.

McCain Foods says suspected munitions from the two World
Wars turned up in batches of European potatoes that were
to be processed into frozen french fries.

First an artillery shell tip was found. A day later a
suspected hand grenade was spotted in the taters.

Members of a bomb squad evacuated a hundred-yard exclusion
zone and detonated the antique armaments.

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