The odds of winning a Powerball lottery is roughly 1 in 292,200,000. The chance is so tiny, you’re more likely to get struck by lightning, which is 1 in 700,000.
But luckily, there’s one lottery where there’re no losers. The food lottery is a worldwide, free-of-charge game purely dependent on chance. While in the worst-case scenario, you get everything but nothing extra, in the best, you get double, triple, or even more of what you paid for. The edible lottery is either sponsored by Mother Nature or is provided by "stuff happens," aka occasional human errors.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of the best food prizes that may inspire you to spin that trolley wheel of fortune harder next time you go shopping. Psst! Check out our previous glorious list of edible prize winners right here.
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Found A Wizard In My Gummy Bear Pack
This Incredible Carrot Hand Was Found While Digging Juice Carrots At Our Farm Today
Jackpot
According to the Department of Agriculture, billions of pounds of fruits and vegetables go to waste every year, which is a whopping 30 to 40 percent of the food supply chain in the US. The USDA estimates that 1/3 of all produce from local farming sources is left uneaten. This equals 161 billion dollars’ worth of waste.
There are many reasons why this estimate is so huge. One of them has to do with aesthetic reasons: when food is deemed unattractive, it’s not being sold. Think of a bruised apple, a quirky-shaped carrot, and odd-looking bananas. These odd "creatures" of nature are known as "ugly produce" and apparently it’s a big hit at the moment.
Today's Clementine Had An Almost Perfect Mini Clementine Inside
My Nonna Wanted Me To Post This On The Internet So That "Everyone In Italy Can See How Big My Tomatoes Have Gotten"
beautiful. it must be hard to look after tomatoes but they are so big and look amazing! well done
This Pearl I Found In An Oyster I Was Eating
oh, that's so nice! i once read some boy or something found a pearl and it was really valuable and worth a lot. but i would just be really happy to find a pearl like that
Bored Panda contacted Sarah Phillips, the CEO and founder of Ugly Produce Is Beautiful, to find out more about the ugly produce movement.
“Every year, some 2.9 trillion pounds of food never gets consumed and it’s enough to feed nearly 800 million people worldwide.” The ugly produce movement is not just about consuming imperfect fruits and vegetables, but rather about minimizing food waste.
Sarah says that the ugly produce movement seeks to invoke change in the way people eat food.Her advice is to “ask your local grocer to bring in uglier produce to sell at a discount and support local farmers.” Sarah assures us that “farmers by nature aren't wasters and they feed ugly produce to livestock, cook with it, and give it away, or sell it at farmers' markets.” And we could take an example from them.
I For One Welcome Our Mutant Carrot Overlords
These Gummy Bears Came Stuck Together In The Bag
I Had A Quadruple Mini Banana This Morning
Meanwhile, in the supermarkets, people see perfect apples, oranges, and bananas that are designed in a way that’s attractive to people. Abhi Ramesh, the CEO of another ugly produce start-up named Misfits Market, told Vox that “historically, grocery stores haven’t wanted to stock anything that isn’t attractive, and so people have gotten used to produce looking a certain way.” And consuming imperfect-looking produce is a way to break such a habit.
The Way My Cheese Melted On My Burger
That's A One Big Squash
This Giant Clove Of Garlic
This Nearly 2 Kg Avocado From My Grandmother's Place
Daughter Found The Largest Blackberry I’ve Ever Seen
Absolute Unit Of A Collard Green
My Friend Grew A Gigantic Cabbage In His Garden
One Of Our Chickens Laid A Really Big Egg Today
This Apple, Which Has An Apple Growing Out Of It
These Huge Blueberries I Found
Harvested My Zuccini. Happy Gardening
My Popsicle Has An Entire Oreo Cookie Inside
I Found A Single Piece Of Bicycle Shaped Pasta In My Penne
This Absolute Unit Of A Lemon My Girlfriend Grew (Regular Sized Lemon For Reference)
I Found A Triple Banana
Absolute Unit Of A Grape Branch
I Opened A Yogurt With No Yogurt On The Lid
This Extra Large Chocolate Chip
This Grape That Looks Like A Pumpkin
My 61g Pack Of Skittles Is Crammed Full And Actually Weighs 103g
My Grape Is Long
This Absolutely Massive Piece Of Chocolate I Poured Out Of This Special K Box
This Is Like A Monster Of Some Sort
This Garlic I Found In My Garden. The Entire Head Is One Clove
Mushroom My Dad Found In The Forest. Egg For Scale
One? 100-Up! If you manage to jump high enough
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FYI: Don't eat random mushrooms. Many are deadly. Here's some cheery reading for reference, after eating many mushrooms, how many hours you'll have until you die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning
Nope, this is how boletus satanas looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubroboletus_satanas
Load More Replies... Looks like it could be a king Bolete, more commonly known as Porcini! Yes, THAT porcini that's mega expensive at the store. It might also be a different bolete, so no tasting till you're certain!
It is. The Holy Grail for the average mushroom picker in Europe, but there are experts who go for more elusive stuff.
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I found one that was the size of a dinner plate once and it was fine - checked it very carefully. To my disgust my mother still refused to cook it.
......must......resist.....making.......'mushrooming'....... remarks.....
When I was a kid we moved into a woods that hadn’t been touched in years—we found morel mushrooms a foot high that first year!
Go ask Alice if it's going to make you smaller when you're 10 foot tall.
I would feel bad picking it after it survived so long in the forest and got so big ;( Idk why but I feel like it's different when it's wild and actually has to work to survive by itself vs being produced in a garden lol
The actual mushroom or fungal mycelium, to be precise, lives under the earth and spreads over several square meters (or even more). During certain times and under good conditions mycelium will grow a fruitbody to spread its spores; fungi can also reproduce by splitting but spores have a chance to spread farther away and thus are a beneficial mode of reproduction. Sooo, in short, the mushroom that we see is... a penis of the fungal mycelium. And one fungal mycelium can grow many, many such penises. So no need to worry that the mushroom would be destroyed by people collecting it; the actual fungus remains in the ground, safe and sound.
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Seeing the holes on this mushroom, I would bet it's full of worms. I got once a big mushroom exactly like this and it was quite busy in there..
Me neither but that's only bc that mushroom is obviously already pretty old and thus it's likely soft, even slimy. Not very taste. However, if it really is king Bolete as it looks like to be, it's totally edible.
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A Giant Cabbage
My School Gave Me One Long French Fry For Lunch
My Dad Just Discovered This Enormous Sweet Potato That Had Been Growing On The Side Of Our House
Is anyone else picturing a house with a huge kumara growing out the side?
A Friend Found A Very Long Cheerio
This Is A Four-Foot-Long Tromboncino Squash
Got A Vitamin Water With Zero Air In It. Just Pure Beverage
This Ridiculous, Nearly Five Pound Lobster Claw
3 Bananas In 1 Banana
This Giant Carrot Made My Day
There Was A Tiny Hamburger Bun Embedded Into My Full Size Hamburger Bun
This Massive Apple My Coworker Brought In. 1,2 Lbs
I Opened A "Fruit By The Foot" And There Were 2 In The Package
I Now Own Two Packs Of Double Crisps
I Found A Giant Hot Cheetos Powder Nugget In My Bag
There Was An Abnormally Large Flake In My Cereal
Baked Cheeto Chonker
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My best is buying a box of 2 frozen pizzas and finding there were three inside.
The person working at the factory couldn't count? Lol
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I like seeing these unusually shaped or larger than normal foods. It shows that the world is always full of surprises.
I am now hungry after having scrolled through all the photos of gigantic food.
Me too and I am fasting 😭 why do I do this to myself
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I've gotten mini bell peppers inside of normal bell peppers several times.
Most of these are just Trump holding normal sized food in his hand
Many packaged food, had a technological or packing mistake. I bought many yoghurts, one of them was half-filled / or half-empty. Usual problem the weight, instead 250 grams 220-230 grams or 970 grammes, not 1 kilogram.
About 2 years ago a shop assistant fond drugs!! in Germany among the bananas from Columbia. Any question? Of course, he called the police and closed to shop immediately. 6988f-5ec7...3be270.jpg 
I just want to know what these folks are doing to make their veggies/fruit grow so big! I only grow the normal sized stuff.
Now I Really Want Curly Fries!! From Arby's not the oven cooked frozen ones..
Most of the fruits and vegetables are modern hybrids that often grow out of control (giant/multiple/small growing inside). I've seen a strawberry where all of the seeds had germinated and were growing.
You can actually buy double-yolked eggs by the dozen in our market place.
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Sorry I'm late. Look what I found in my Lunchables today! IMG_202106...82086c.jpg 
honestly if i worked at mcdonalds or something i would put an extra chicken nugget in there.... hey, if i were having a bad day, i'd want that !
These all made me go wow, or laugh like I won the lottery! Thank you so much!
I know people in Alaska grow rather freakishly large produce. I always thought that was neat.
My best is buying a box of 2 frozen pizzas and finding there were three inside.
The person working at the factory couldn't count? Lol
Load More Replies... I like seeing these unusually shaped or larger than normal foods. It shows that the world is always full of surprises.
I am now hungry after having scrolled through all the photos of gigantic food.
Me too and I am fasting 😭 why do I do this to myself
Load More Replies... I've gotten mini bell peppers inside of normal bell peppers several times.
Most of these are just Trump holding normal sized food in his hand
Many packaged food, had a technological or packing mistake. I bought many yoghurts, one of them was half-filled / or half-empty. Usual problem the weight, instead 250 grams 220-230 grams or 970 grammes, not 1 kilogram.
About 2 years ago a shop assistant fond drugs!! in Germany among the bananas from Columbia. Any question? Of course, he called the police and closed to shop immediately. 6988f-5ec7...3be270.jpg
I just want to know what these folks are doing to make their veggies/fruit grow so big! I only grow the normal sized stuff.
Now I Really Want Curly Fries!! From Arby's not the oven cooked frozen ones..
Most of the fruits and vegetables are modern hybrids that often grow out of control (giant/multiple/small growing inside). I've seen a strawberry where all of the seeds had germinated and were growing.
You can actually buy double-yolked eggs by the dozen in our market place.
Load More Replies... Sorry I'm late. Look what I found in my Lunchables today! IMG_202106...82086c.jpg
honestly if i worked at mcdonalds or something i would put an extra chicken nugget in there.... hey, if i were having a bad day, i'd want that !
These all made me go wow, or laugh like I won the lottery! Thank you so much!
I know people in Alaska grow rather freakishly large produce. I always thought that was neat.
