Friday 15 August 2014

Henri does have the biggest I've seen

The Depeche is full of tomato stories.

Après une pastèque de 22 kg et une tomate de 1 400 grammes, Henri Raniéri est tout fier de nous montrer aujourd'hui une grappe de 4 tomates qui pèsent 2,734 kg. 

Malc says: The French way of writing numbers makes it look (to our Anglo Saxon eyes) as if M Ranieri's tomatoes weigh an average of about 683 kgs each  whereas they weigh about 683 gms each (unless, forgive me monsieur, the rest are stuffed in his vest...)