Thursday, September 20, 2007

...but I couldn't eat a whole one

If it's girth you go for, look no further than Tapa's own Vaino Rei. A man who knows his mushrooms, he was nevertheless taken aback on Tuesday to come across a rough-stemmed boletus weighing in at a whopping 1.4 kilograms. "We've never seen one that big before," said his friends.

Rei himself, a seasoned picker, understandably made headlines with his find. "I couldn't pick any more mushrooms after this one," he said. "They wouldn't fit in the basket!"

5 comments:

AndrewGoesBroadway said...

That is such an Estonian story . . .

phutty said...

Apparently he made the front page of that newspaper everyone reads, the Virumaa Teataja. It was, like, page 5 news in Postimees too. Mind you, it is a pretty impressive mushroom.

AndrewGoesBroadway said...

Oh, right, the Virumaa Teataja . . . that essential publication . . .

Tanvir said...

That's pretty big.....so was their incredible revolution. I just ran into a website about Estonia the other day - it is a Documentary about Estonia's Singing Revolution:
http://singingrevolution.com

phutty said...

Yes, you can stop now. Do you have advertising interest on their site or something?