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Kill the Wadish?

posted by Jimcat on November 17 2005 06:00

While browsing news sites this morning, I saw a headline that read “Radish in intensive care after murder attempt.”

I thought: someone named Radish was the victim of an attack, but the headline makes it look like the victim was a vegetable.

Nope. It really was an attempted murder of a radish. As in a Japanese daikon radish.

From the article:

The “daikon” radish, shaped like a giant carrot, first made the news months ago when it was noticed poking up through asphalt along a roadside in the town of Aioi, population 33,289.

This week local residents, who had nicknamed the vegetable “Gutsy Radish,” were shocked — and in some cases moved to tears — when they found it had been decapitated.

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