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The Vegetables: Holiday in the sun

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The picture shows a sun-drenched, sandy beach, with a clear blue sea and a cloudless sky. The Vegetables are relaxing, soaking up the rays.

However, closer examination shows that they are not, in fact, our vegetable pals, but non-disabled humans who have been dressed up as them. So Spud is revealed to be a man in a potato suit, with his arms and legs poking out of holes, and who has removed the top of the outfit to get some sun. He is sitting on a crate of beer bottles. Celery has revealed herself to be a woman who is lying on a sun lounger, Tomato has removed his 'top' and sits in a sun hat, stripped to the waist, while Brussels Sprout's outfit has come apart to reveal a small child playing with a bucket and spade in the sand.

Underneath the cartoon, the caption reads "BBC caught out in "vegetable holiday fake shocker'."

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