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Doctors find pea plant growing in man’s lung

The 75-year-old had been sick for months with emphysema when he began feeling listless and coughing more.

A trip to the hospital revealed a collapsed left lung and a growth. But it wasn’t cancer. It was a pea plant.

“Whether this would have gone full-term and I’d be working for the jolly green giant, I don’t know. I think the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn’t the cancer,” said Sveden.

Ron said he never felt anything growing in his chest, just a lot of coughing.

Doctors suspect he had eaten a pea at some point in the last couple of months and it went down the wrong way, and then began to grow.

Mr. Sveden’s doctor told the Cape Cod Times the pea was just the right size to get lost in a lung.

“His body had really tried to seal this off. Now you say, ‘Why didn’t his body just cough this out?’ If you had a pea in your lung, you’d cough it out,” Dr. Jeff Spillane told the newspaper. “It was small enough to get down there but big enough not to get out.”

Mr. Sveden is recovering at home, surrounded by gifts of pea seeds and canned peas from his friends.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/08/11/doctors-find-pea-plant-growing-in-mans-lung/#ixzz0wPDWLFy5

Aussies claim record with giant burger

An Australian cafe is claiming a world record after cooking a giant hamburger with an 81 kg (178 lb) patty that took 12 hours to cook and four men to flip. The monster burger cooked up by Sydney cafe owners, Joe and Iman El-Ajouz, weighed in at 90 kg in total, eclipsing the previous record of 84 kg, set in Michigan in the United States.

“Just flipping the patty was the main challenge for us, but it all went well,” Iman El-Ajouz told Reuters.

“My husband had to prepare special metal holders and a metal plate, he had one at the bottom one at the top, locked them together and they flipped the burger with that,” she added.

The giant burger contained the giant beef patty, 120 eggs, 150 slices of cheese, 1.5 kg of beetroot, 2.5 kg of tomatoes and almost 2 kg of lettuce all topped off with a special sauce on a giant sesame seed bun. It was eaten by employees at the cafe. The variety of burger will be on the menu at the cafe for the next year in order to meet the conditions for a Guinness world record, but will set hungry patrons back around A$1,500 ($1,220).

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