Sunday, December 22, 2013

Police investigate after artichoke exploded

A woman in northern Italy got a shock after an artichoke she had just bought exploded. The woman, from the village of Olginate, in Italy’s Lombardy region, was slicing into the artichoke at home when it is exploded.

Rendered speechless by the explosion, she went to her husband and daughter, who decided to phone the police and the local supermarket.



The woman was not injured in the explosion, but noticed afterwards that the artichoke leaves were left damaged and burnt. The explosion could have been caused by a chemical reaction of the fertilizer used on the artichoke,.

Police have since opened an investigation, while the supermarket has taken its crop of artichokes off the shelf. This is not the first incident of an exploding artichoke in Italy, with similar cases recorded in 2003 and 2008.

2 comments:

Annemarie said...

I once had an exploding watermelon, unknown to me the insides had fermented and when I stuck the knife in, bang, watermelon all over the place,even on the ceiling. I mentioned it where i bought it and they shook some others,all the ones that had a liquid sound inside were the same as they found out when they also tried to cut one open, oh how we laughed

arbroath said...

Hahaha, blimey! :)