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'Killer cucumbers' row between Spain and Germany Spain has accused Germany of "spreading alarm" and needlessly damaging trade after blaming a deadly E.coli outbreak on "killer cucumbers" imported from Spain. By Fiona Govan, Madrid 5:33PM BST 30 May 2011 Spain's authorities went on the defensive as countries across Europe cleared their shelves of the offending vegetables insisting that there was no proof the deadly outbreak had been caused by Spanish vegetables. Leire Pajin, the Spanish Health Minister, noting that no Spanish cases have been reported, urged Germany to speed up its probe and establish proof of what has caused the...

Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, Al-Qa'eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life. They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar. Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni elder, told Reuters: "They even killed female goats because their private parts were not covered and their tails were pointed upward, which they said was haram. "They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as...

The increasingly famous Montgomery County cucumber has been sentenced to legal limbo with the ruling of a federal judge last week, which is too bad, considering the hype that has enveloped this normally modest side dish. The Montgomery County cucumber has been the subject of countless news stories and commentaries this spring, as America undergoes the uncomfortable process of learning everything it ever wanted to know about the cucumber but was afraid to ask. The Montgomery County cucumber is the co-star of a low-budget flick, "Protect Yourself," along with an actress who has all the lines. Of course, the latter...