A potato destined for the fryer has become a holy relic to some Berliners after a woman cut it open only to find an image of a cross inside.Birgül Balta, 49, was cutting potatoes for French fries at her home in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district when the cross-shaped cavity inside one of the spuds stopped her cold.
“There was a strange sort of crackling sound like pressure was being released. When she opened it she found that - two perfect crosses,” Balta’s husband, Robert White, told The Local.
Balta, a Muslim, called her family and neighbors to witness what local newspaper Berliner Morgenpost is calling “the miracle of Berlin-Charlottenburg.”“Everyone was deeply stirred,” Balta told the paper. “Some of them even began to weep and to pray.”
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[From me]
If it makes people pray maybe we should offer potatoes every Sunday!
What do you think?
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Quinn Hooks
Potatoes every Sunday? Yum! Can I have a side of blooming onion to go with that prayer potato?
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Bill(cycleguy)
Very good Quinn! Actually I prefer salmon caught at the Sea of Galilee by Peter that had the coin in it that has been preserved for these thousands of years. Given the rate of inflation that coin must be worth millions, no billions, by now!!
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