Friday, November 14, 2008

Mormons send peaches to ACFB

Posted by Carly M. Alaimo on Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM

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Okay, so the Mormon church owns a couple orchards in Utah and Idaho that apparently yielded an immaculate crop of peaches and apricots so large the Latter-Day Saints thought, hey, let's send Georgia some peaches.

Whether the church's cheekiness was intentional or simply unrealized, the 70,000 cans shipped to the Atlanta Community Food Bank was no laughing matter.

(Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

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