Visitors
to a UK beach saw something unusual earlier this week. The shoreline was
covered in French fries or "chips" in British English.
Thousands
of bags of chips washed up on a beach in the county of Sussex. The bags were in
shipping containers that fell off cargo ships in the English Channel
Due to bad weather three of the containers fell
into the sea.
Currents
carried one of the containers and the chips to the shore. Joel Bonnici, a local
man, was the first to find the chips. He said: "From a distance, it looked
like the golden sand of a Caribbean beach, but on closer inspection, I saw not
just the chips, I also found chip bags. In some areas, the chips were 75 cm
deep."
Many
people came to the beach to help to clean-up. Removing the plastic bags is a
priority.
A
local official warned people to be careful if they go to the beach. She said:
"Please keep dogs on leads as some of the food items on the beach may be
harmful to them."
The
chip spill is the second such event in Sussex recently. Last month, thousands
of bananas washed ashore.
