FOOD poisoning, anyone - A British bakery has been fined more than $250,000 over health and safety violations, after council inspectors found a host of problems including a filthy tennis racquet being used to mash potatoes (pictured).
Doce Bakers and its sister business Sweet Mahal shared premises in Edmonton, North London, where they made products including desserts, sweets, samosas and baked goods.
Officials said they believed staff rested the racquet on top of the bowl and mashed potatoes by pushing them through the strings.
And while we're on the subject of potatoes, scientists at the University of Western Australia are thrilled to have discovered a new species of grass which tastes like salt and vinegar chips.
The ABC reported the researchers were doing "late night experiments" handling specimens of trodia scintillans, a type of native spinifex which has sparkling drops on its stems - and found it was finger-lickin' good.
"Someone licked their hand at some point and tasted that flavour," Dr Matthew Barrett said.
Dr Barrett did not recommend that people with a salt and vinegar craving seek out and lick the spinifex - presumably because they might cut their tongue.
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