
It’s not the first time that a hand grenade belonging to the First World War has turned up here in Spain in a shipment of potatoes from France.
The local police in Linares, Jaén, got a shock when a man walked in with a hand grenade, saying that he had found it laying on a street.
It used to be an underhand trick of greengrocers to sell you potatoes with a lot of dried mud clinging to them – you came to expect that, but what you wouldn’t expect is a hand grenade, which is precisely what one customer from Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz) found in his bag of potatoes.