Longshot: Anyone see a picture of some army cook with a giant weirdo veg in the Guardian on Saturday?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I tried to find the pic online, but can't - it was with this story.

It was a pic of a cook, holding what looked like a parsnip, but it was bigger than his leg, I think.

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Saturday's paper. Main section.

It looked like a parsnip, but comically huge. Could have otherwise been an elephant's trunk? It wasn't a very big picture, just confusing.

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I can dig up my copy and scan in the photo I guess. It really was bizarrely big.

Annoyingly, I am out on the piss tonight, but might manage it before then.

How big do parsnips grow?

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I found it..tis quite weird..agreed it does look like a HUGE parsnip,sadly I haven't a scanner...

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Ok, here it is. WTF is it?

Hmmm, maybe, but wouldn't a doner kebab fall apart if you carried it that way? Also, it looks too asymetrical ...

it gives me the willies

Well, it alarmed me. Hence my need to show it to all of you.

why has that image disturbed me so much???

If I dream about it I shall blame you NQC

Because it's freaky.

Because if vegetables get that big, what's to stop them eating us?

Because what the fuck is it?

Because he looks so bored. Surely you'd be in awe of the Giant Mutant Vegetable. Or afraid of it. Or impressed? Something. Not bored!

I am immune to nightmares. Someone came up to me, in public, recently, and asked 'are you NotQuiteCockney?'. I had not arranged to meet her. I had not told her I would be at the event I was at. I had never spoken to her offline. Once that's happened, what can you have nightmares about?

bloody hell

I would of been so freaked out! (even more than I am at giant mutant 'vegetable')

Yeah, I was a little freaked out.

But then, I've had so many people on here go 'hey, did I just talk to you at X' or work out who I was, it wasn't that much of a shock. When I did my first 'hello, I'm NQC' post, someone came on and said, 'hey, I spoke to you behind the bike sheds the other day'.

(am off boozing, will appear later to check for more vegetable theories ...)

I also think doner kebabs are the same diameter throughout, iyswim ...

Any more guesses?

i saw it and I thought it was a kebab. It was in an article about working in Iraq.

A kebab, really?

I thought Califrau was joking ... I guess a kebab is more likely than a parsnip, but do they hold together like that?

well they hold together on their vertical spit things in kebab shops. one thing's for sure. it ain;t a giant parsnip. wrong colour.