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| Punk rocker or Elvis? |
JENN McKINLAY: This was not my originally planned post for this day, but Hooligan 1 and I were thinning the lemon tree when we found this guy amongst the leaves. Y'all I have a punk rock mohawk wearing lemon! I know he looks like a lime, but he would have been a lemon if he hadn't been a part of the culling. I feel rather bad about that, actually.
Of course, then I had to do a deep dive on wacky shaped things people have found in their gardens and so I share with you because starting the weekend with a laugh sets the tone, don't you think?
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| This eggplant looks like a therapist reserving judgment...barely. |
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| A strawberry flutterby? (Butterfly never made sense to me but flutterby does so that's sorted). |
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| This radish looks like she's ready for the catwalk at fashion week. |
Tomayto-tomahto, either is just ducky with this fella.
The pepper is in a fizz! The horror of being halved?
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| Perhaps potato bear and can hug it out with the pepper? LOL. |
All right, Reds and Readers, what weird and wacky things have you found in your garden or the produce section of the grocery?
I am chuckling over all the funny vegetable faces . . . flutterby strawberry and panicked pepper are my personal favorites!
ReplyDeleteWe had a heart-shaped little potato [but the hard-hearted cook just grinned, tossed it right into the pot, and made it into potato salad] . . . .
LOL! I'm in accord with the chef!
DeleteThose are hilarious! I have had a few odd shaped vegetables over the years but none that I remember.
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids are young I got a two-sided mold that you were supposed to put around for example a baby cucumber, and it would grow into the shape of the goofy person-cucumber. Instead the growing cucumber rotted inside the mold. That was the end of that!
I've seen those and often wondered if they work. Good to know.
DeleteI agree about flutterby. I've been calling them that since I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteI can't recall anything that funny or unusual coming out of my garden, but there are always those zucchinis. You know the ones. You check the garden at night and the zucchini is bitty. The next morning, it's the size of a baseball bat. How does that happen???
I'm still scarred from my parents' zucchini patch as a kid. People ran from them if they came at them with a paper bag.
DeleteAside from the few bodies found in Uncle Ferd's garden after he passed, I've got nothing.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!! Uncle Ferd - I always suspected something amiss there. ;-)
DeleteHA HA, those veggies (and fruit) are funny!
ReplyDeleteFortunately, I don't ever recall any weirdly funny veggies growing out of my garden.
After 6 days of cool, rainy weather with highs in the teens/low 60s, I am just glad to be still eating my leaf lettuce and arugula. A heat wave is supposed to start next Monday, and the cool leafy greens will start to bolt.
Yup. Mine shriveled up and died in a hot minute in AZ :(
DeleteThe AZ heat dome temperatures are crazy! I still have not installed my portable A/C in my apartment yet. Today's high is 23C/73F.
DeleteMove fast, Grace, the Northeast is getting heat-domed starting Monday!
DeleteJULIA: Yeah, I know! Just procrastinating. Last year, I had to install the A/C in early May!!
DeleteCalifornia heat domes arrived several times in May and we have three days at 110 in June. I do not live in the dessert, only ten miles inland. Ninety is normal, but we have had many days at 100 and above, starting in March.
DeleteEvery once in a while you see a news story about a fruit or vegetable with the face the farmer claims to be of a Saint or some other important icon of their religion. It always makes me laugh at the temerity of such claims. But your Elvis lemon, that's totally legit!
ReplyDeleteLOL
Thank you! I thought so. LOL.
DeleteThat eggplant reminds me of Jimmy Durante. Last year we had a summer squash with a similar, but more pronounced "nose".
ReplyDeleteMother Nature has a highly refined sense of humor. This year my carrots are all normal, but in my early attempts I pulled one that turned out to be two slim little guys twirled around each other like lovers.
Speaking of zucchini. Decades ago a friend who'd just gotten dumped invited all her girlfriends over for a "weenie roast". My garden happened to have produced a really weird assortment of shapes and sizes of zucchini that week. I got inspired, threw them into a bag, and that night had a little show and tell (along the lines of the theme of the evening) to cheer Linda up. It was a fun night.
Zucchini is reliable like that! LOL. Glad you could cheer your friend.
DeleteThis was just the lighthearted post I needed this morning, Jenn!
ReplyDeleteHappy to hear it!
DeleteHow fun! Thanks for posting the pictures. I have no examples to add, but love the creativity. My fave is the ducky tomato.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it adorbs? It totally quacked me up...lol.
DeleteOuch, Jenn. Elisabeth
DeleteThese are wonderful. I especially like the radish. Just amazing. But they are all hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a radish strut! Loved it!
DeleteThat’s fabulous! Made my day. Xx
ReplyDeleteWe're setting the bar high for your tomatoes, Hank!
DeleteWonderful way to start the weekend.
ReplyDeleteAnd now we'll all be scouting the fruits and veggies at the grocery to see what we find. Okay, maybe just me. LOL.
DeleteLoved the pictures. So cool.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what causes the fruits and veggies to become deformed? Soil, pests ? so interesting.
No idea. My lemon was so random. Hmm.
DeleteFrom Diana: Perhaps a future novel about these produce with “faces” and the lemon with a mowhawk?
DeleteMy favorite is the radish! I burst out laughing! I don’t have any stories, but I suspect that people who subscribe to the Misfits produce probably do.
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It definitely has sass!
DeleteI love your Elvis lemon, Jenn - is there anything you can do with the unripened ones? Pickle them or something?
ReplyDeleteI thought they were all funny except for the radish, which looks like it's walking out of Stephen King's garden...
Oh, you went dark with the radish!
DeleteMine was just a lemon wedge … looked down at the used wedge on the edge of my plate and there it was — grinning back at me. A split seed so like 2 eyes and the separated edge where I squeezed the happy wide grin. So sorry that we can’t post photos. Thanks, Jenn, for focusing on the wonderful things we can see if we keep our eyes and hearts open. Elisabeth
ReplyDeleteA happy lemon wedge - that seems about right. Thanks, Elisabeth!
DeleteCute veggies! I grow two tomato plants in an earthbox on my deck every year. The first year, I had a tomato that was really strange. When I sliced it, all of the seeds inside had already sprouted and were growing into tiny plants!
ReplyDeleteWhaaaaaat??? I've never heard of that!
DeleteHilarious post! Just the thing to start off a hot weekend. Is anyone else old enough to remember the woman who came on Johnny Carson with a potato chip that had a face on it? Johnny pretended to eat it of course and the woman almost had a heart attack.
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I'm not but I bet it was hilarious!
DeleteStrawberry Fields Forever - fist thought when I saw that cute little insect.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's perfect!!!
DeleteFrom Diana: Hilarious post and love the photos!
ReplyDeleteThank you!!!
DeleteThe radish doing a catwalk at a fashion show is hilarious. I could see a children’s novel about that or perhaps a fantasy novel?
ReplyDeleteDefinite potential for a story!
DeleteThese fruits and veggie are SO CREEPY! I love it. Clouds and rotting trees also often have faces. It's easy now to capture them since we're all carting around cell phones.
ReplyDeleteSo true. I love it when I see a face in a tree.
DeleteSo funny, Jenn! The eggplant is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteIt looks so smart :)
DeleteWhat a hoot! Thanks for the chuckles. Potato bear and the radish are my favs. (Heather S)
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
DeleteWhat great pictures. Thank you for sharing.
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