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Ashley Pemberton & Lottie Gibbons

Dad speechless after weekly Tesco shop when he opens 19p bag of vegetables

A Tesco shopper and his wife were "rolling around laughing" after finding a phallic parsnip.

Matthew Whitaker, 44, was stunned to pull out the parsnip from the 19p bag of vegetables, which prompted a laughing fit from his wife Amy, 34.

It is the second time Matthew has found rude veg - two years ago he pulled out a carrot that looked like a tiny penis in between two legs.

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The father-of-two said: "How lucky am I?

"I thought oh no, not again - why do these rude vegetables keep finding me?"

Matthew picked up a bag of parsnips during his weekly shop at Tesco in Penzance, Cornwall, last week hoping to have them with his dinner.

But when he returned home, he opened the bag to find a vegetable apparently shaped like male genitals.

Matthew and his wife of nine years Amy said they fell about laughing when they saw it.

Two years ago, the couple, of St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, found a carrot with a rude-looking appendage from a bag of shopping they'd had delivered from the same store.

Delivery driver Matthew said Amy, a support worker, called him into the kitchen to show him the hilarious X-rated find.

A Tesco shopper and his wife were left "rolling around laughing" after finding a rude parsnip (SWNS)

The couple usually buy wonky carrots, but their local store did not have any in when they ordered - and Matthew quipped they sent "winky" ones instead.

Matthew, originally from Bradford added: "We had a good laugh about it, it's the second time I've found a rude vegetable from the same Tesco.

"I guess it's just luck that I find the funny ones. I just need a rude swede now and I'll have a full set."

Matthew sliced the parsnip and the couple ate it on a roast dinner.

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