A prospector from Montrose who found a 25lb nugget of lard washed up on the beach at St.Cyrus says he has sold the delicacy to a local chip restaurant.
Culinary experts say the lard, believed to have come from the wreck of a WWII battle ship, should last the restaurant from anything between 2-3 weeks and if used sparingly could eventually deep-fry over 25million chips.
The lard is estimated to be worth around £4.75....a record for any Scottish culinary foodstuff and is said to be rich in vitamin D and fatty tissue.
The prospector who had originally been combing the beach for gold said he couldn’t believe his luck when he stumbled across the 25lb block of rendered pig-stomach.
‘I saw the seagulls throwing up in the distance and wondered what the hell it could have been. We sometimes get minky whales washed up on the beach and I thought maybe it was one of them gone off. Imagine my delight when I discovered it was lard’.
Local fisherman Angus McAngus said lard finds as big as this were a rarity nowadays and he was not at all surprised the restaurant had paid a record fee to secure the porcine wad.
But staff at the nature reserve say they are furious with the prospector after being fobbed off with the contents of a 9th century Viking treasure chest the man had discovered just moments before coming across the lard.
‘A Viking helmet made out of solid gold. What the fuck am I supposed to do with that' fumed warden Alistair McAlistair
You cannae even eat chips out of it’.
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Scottish prospector discovers giant nugget of lard
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