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Title: WWI grenade found...in a chip factory...in Hong Kong
Post by: steve58 on February 05, 2019, 11:41:53 AM
The war that keeps on giving...  :-\

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Factory workers in a Hong Kong potato chip plant recently uncovered a German hand grenade from World War I that had not detonated, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The grenade, which was found at the Calbee Four Seas Company factory, weighed approximately 2 pounds and "was in an unstable condition because it has been previously discharged but failed to detonate," Superintendent Wilfred Wong Ho-hon told AFP.

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Wong added that, "[a]ll the information to date suggested that the grenade was imported from France together with the other potatoes."

Because the grenade was a camouflage of mud and soil, it was likely buried on a WWI battlefield that eventually became a potato farm, the AFP added.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/wwi-grenade-found-in-potato-sack-in-chip-factory
Title: Re: WWI grenade found...in a chip factory...in Hong Kong
Post by: ArizonaTank on February 05, 2019, 12:15:21 PM
Glad to hear they found it in time.  But it does not say much for the quality control at the French potato farm.
Title: Re: WWI grenade found...in a chip factory...in Hong Kong
Post by: bbmike on February 05, 2019, 12:25:18 PM
So the spud was a dud?
Title: Re: WWI grenade found...in a chip factory...in Hong Kong
Post by: Con on February 05, 2019, 06:39:20 PM
New type of chip
Boom Fravor
Title: Re: WWI grenade found...in a chip factory...in Hong Kong
Post by: airboy on February 05, 2019, 06:57:18 PM
This was something completely different.
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Title: Re: WWI grenade found...in a chip factory...in Hong Kong
Post by: bob48 on February 12, 2019, 11:06:39 AM
Bangers and mash.