A Cypriot neighborhood’s endeavour to pay homage to the standard spud has gone viral after their 5 metres (16 ft) tall statue of a Cyprus potato drew comparisons to a large penis. The fibreglass duplicate, which value 8,000 euros ($9,300) and sits by a predominant street on the entrance to the village of Xylophagou, has drawn widespread ribbing on social media.
“Different international locations have immediately recognisable monuments, now we’ve ours,” Euripides Evriviades, who’s a former Cyprus ambassador to the UK, wrote on Twitter.
Alongside he posted a collage juxtaposing a picture of the Huge Potato with the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and Hong Kong Huge Buddha.
However Xylophagou’s residents are taking the ridicule of their stride, insisting that the beige-coloured knobbly design named “The Huge Potato” is a devoted copy of its predominant potato crop, the Spunta.
Neighborhood chief George Tasou stated those that noticed within the statue something greater than a potato was responsible of a unclean thoughts.
“That’s, I feel, speak of a thoughts possessed,” he stated.
“Whether or not we prefer it or not this potato, the Spunta, is skinny and lengthy.”
Potatoes are the mainstay of Cyprus, identified for its wealthy pink fertile soil. Subsequent 12 months Xylophagou plans one other novelty with its favorite produce; frying 800 kgs of potatoes in a chip-fest.
Tasou stated work on the Huge Potato was incomplete and that it could be mounted in native stone with a bench, a park and a small retailer, bringing the whole value of the challenge to fifteen,000 euros.
“Will probably be a landmark,” he stated as laughing guests behind him posed for selfies.
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