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I'm Christopher Kimball, and this is a special episode of Milk Street Radio.

Today we're re-releasing a selection of our, well, quirkiest interviews.

Think flutes made of carrots, baby food for adults, and a competition over jello moles.

There once was a large orange aspick, whose sagging was really quite drastic.

The diners all giggled as it juggled and jiggled, but that aspect proved rather elastic.

Throughout the years, we've heard some of the strangest stories in all food.

Up first, Susanna Gartmire and Juergen Berlachovic are two members of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.

Instead of flutes, violins, and drums, they prefer carrots, leeks and tomatoes.

This song is from the orchestra's album, Onion Noise.

Susanna and Juergen, welcome to Milk Street.

Hello, hello Chris.

So let's start at the beginning.

Could you explain the basic concept of what is a vegetable orchestra? Well, we restrict ourselves to playing music on instruments built out of vegetables,

and we do that since 26 years. Our concert day looks quite different to other orchestras or bands. In the morning, we get

our vegetables and then it takes a few hours to build all the instruments because our aim is to

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