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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Mangan

Digested week: Got to love Germany’s great potato giveaway

Two people load potatoes from large sacks into vegetable crates
One of 174 distribution point set up in Berlin to gives way tonne upon tonne of God’s own tuber. Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live News.

Monday

You almost find me on my way to Berlin. I’m not usually one for travel – I haven’t left the UK since 2017 and my passport has about 10 minutes left to run (it’s not patriotism, by the way, it’s sloth) – but exceptions must always be made in the case of a Kartoffel-Flut.

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