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Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra earns world record by playing with food
upi ^ | March 5, 2025 / 4:22 PM | Ben Hooper

Posted on 03/06/2025 7:54:03 AM PST by BenLurkin

The 11-piece Vegetable Orchestra formed in Vienna, Austria, in 1999, when musicians of various backgrounds came together with the idea of carving veggies into instruments

The performers have now perfected the art of playing with their food. Their instruments include carrots carved into recorders and leeks into mandolins.

The orchestra was awarded the Guinness World Record for the most concerts by a vegetable orchestra after playing their 344th show.

The musicians said they carve fresh vegetables before every performance, as their instruments only last for about 6 hours before starting to rot or losing their shape.

The orchestra told Guinness World Records that only one subject is off-limits during their concerts: asking whether the musicians are vegetarians.

"No we are not. Don't ask again,"

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: austria; europe; vegetableorchestra; vienna

1 posted on 03/06/2025 7:54:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Was Greta one of the instruments?


2 posted on 03/06/2025 8:00:44 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: BenLurkin
"The performers have now perfected the art of playing with their food."

Wow!! Something that any kid (or adult) does.

3 posted on 03/06/2025 8:01:17 AM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: BenLurkin

They call that music?


4 posted on 03/06/2025 8:03:58 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if they played this song....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDXbElN1oY


5 posted on 03/06/2025 8:04:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Randy, don’t play your food! Eat it!”


6 posted on 03/06/2025 8:08:59 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: BenLurkin
Austria is big on music!


7 posted on 03/06/2025 8:34:39 AM PST by Bobalu (I can’t even feign surprise anymore...)
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To: BenLurkin

So. to make a piccolo, do you have to carve a flute out of a cucumber and then brine it?


8 posted on 03/06/2025 8:35:36 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: aquila48

Turnip the volume!


9 posted on 03/06/2025 8:38:55 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: BenLurkin

And I was pondering the question as to whether the autoharp is a serious instrument.


10 posted on 03/06/2025 8:48:16 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: dfwgator

LOL!

I checked, expecting Steve Goodman’s “The Vegetable Song”. :^)

or maybe Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, “Dodge Veg-O-Matic”...


11 posted on 03/06/2025 8:51:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BenLurkin

Kamala should join them and sing word salads!


12 posted on 03/06/2025 8:59:37 AM PST by Migraine
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To: BenLurkin

Who can afford to play with food nowadays? Is the Vienna food orchestra getting Biden regime kickback funding?


13 posted on 03/06/2025 8:59:59 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Huskrrrr

You beat me to it, wanting the former vegetable-in-chief to apply for a good beating.


14 posted on 03/06/2025 9:25:29 AM PST by DPMD
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To: dfwgator

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0


15 posted on 03/06/2025 10:04:06 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Bobalu
Well, they did produce Mozart, Haydn, Mahler and Johann Strauss, among others.

Not to mention Franz Gruber.

16 posted on 03/06/2025 11:05:29 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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