Lost ring found on carrot

Lena Paahlsson, who lives on a farm near Mora, Sweden, says that she found her wedding ring, lost for 16 years, on a carrot in her garden. From the BBC News:

"The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible," her husband Ola said to the newspaper.
The couple believe the ring fell into a sink back in 1995 and was lost in vegetable peelings that were turned into compost or fed to their sheep.

"Sweden: Wedding ring 'found on carrot' after 16 years" (via Fortean Times)

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Wedding wrong? Must be the secret anti-marriage agenda of BoingBoing.
- Lobster
  
  Freudian slip? (sometimes a carrot is just a carrot)
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    That carrot isn’t big enough to be a homewrecker.
    - David Pescovitz
      
      hahah! That was a funny typo. Ooops! Fixed!
    - retepslluerb
      
      You are kidding? It’s as large as the tree to the left! And look at the hand that’s holding it!
http://fyeahcoffeeshopcivet.tumblr.com C.S. Civet

I found my wedding wrong, too, when it was held on a carrot.
awjt

Honeydew you love me? Do you carrot all?
I’m sorry, pumpkin, but I cantaloupe tonight.
- teknocholer
  
  When it’s cherry-picking time in Orange, New Jersey
  We’ll make a peach of a pair.
  - irksome
    
    My wife lost her cherry, but she still has the box it came in.
    - BombBlastLightingWaltz
      
      You both make quite a pear.
semiotix

I think I remember this as the setup to a carrot/carat pun in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.
The Hamster King

Always remember, Frodo, the Ring is trying to get back to its master. It WANTS to be found.
- Lobster
  
  Spoiler: Sauron is a carrot.
Chuck

I’m remembering a scene from The Simpsons…

At school, the other kids tease Lisa about her vegetarianism.

Sherri and Terri: “Look, it’s Mrs. Potato Head! She has a head made out of lettuce!”
Ralph: “I can’t believe I used to go out with you.”
Janey: “Are you going to marry a carrot, Lisa?”
Lisa: [sarcastically] “Yes, I’m going to marry a carrot.”
Sherri and Terri: “Ooh! She admitted it. She’s going to marry a carrot!”
http://twitter.com/Cairnish Jess

Best comment thread ever.
Lupus_Yonderboy

GRANNY
It isn’t. The reason being, the country’s full of babies, and they all look the same. But I don’t reckon there’s many crowns. They have this way of being found, anyway. They kind of call out to people’s minds. If you bunged it under a stone here, it’d get itself discovered by accident. You mark my words.

NANNY
It’s true, that. How many time have you thrown a magic ring into the deepest depths of the ocean and then, when you get home and have a nice bit of turbot for your tea, there it is.
- MrsBug
  
  Another Discworld fan, I see.
http://twitter.com/davidnewland David Newland

I found my first wedding wrong, but only in hindsight. I found my second wedding quite delightful.
http://profiles.google.com/murso74 Matthew Urso

if this is wedding wrong, i don’t want to be wedding right
Smart E Pantz

The provenance of this article notwithstanding, do I detect an early April Fool’s joke here? ”Ola and Lena”? Really? If you’ve never heard of ‘Ole and Lena’, google it. A carrot on a ring? Really?
- CharredBarn
  
  Interesting point — although if those names are actually common ones (I don’t know that they are or are not) then maybe suspicion based on that alone is premature.
  
  I thought there might be a hoax/joke in here just because the carrot doesn’t look like it grew into the ring. If it had, I would expect the carrot to grow “around” the ring to some extent, but the ring is appreciably larger in diameter than the carrot… of course, I’m suspicious of everything.
irksome

For my wedding, I needed a carrot AND a stick.
Finnagain

And now they can control ALL THE CARROTS!!
noah django

it seemed romantic until the part where it passed through a sheep.
- Guest
  
  well, we know where you’re NOT from.
  - Elizabeth Howell
    
    I grew up on a farm and what noah said made me laugh so hard- Noah does have a point, lol
    - noah django
      
      Oh, I thought he meant Sweden lol. thanks for the vindication, Ms. Howell–and your first comment, too!
      ｍ（．＿．）ｍアリガト
Solomon Kamman

One carrot ring. Pretty nice, for a farmer.
http://pocketprogressive.org Uncle Geo

Carrots! Foiled in their attempt to destroy traditional marriage!