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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Romaine calm: live frog found in discount supermarket lettuce bag

Green frog amid lettuce leaves
Shopper finds a hopper: Housemates in Esperance, Western Australia, found a frog in a a packet of lettuce. (Stock image) Photograph: lintrezza/Getty Images/iStockphoto

When a group of housemates in Western Australia bought a pair of lettuces in a sealed plastic bag – reduced for quick sale to $1.15 – they got two other things for which they could not have bargained. One was a live frog reckoned to be the size of a man’s palm. The other, a slot on national television.

But despite describing it as “the most random thing” they had encountered upon opening a packet of leafy greens from the supermarket, Laura Jones and Billie Le Pine fronted their interview on ABC news breakfast with a series or ready made one liners.

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