Blast food: chip factory calls bomb squad after muddy spud turns out to be grenade

Mr Chips employee Richard Teurukura who found a WW11 hand grenade in the hot chip production line. Photograph: David White/Stuff Limited

New Zealand’s bomb squad has been called into a chip factory after a suspicious-looking potato trundling down the production line turned out to be a grenade.

Grenades frequently pop up in potato fields in Europe, but are a highly unusual find in New Zealand.