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Wedding guests feast on heart-shaped cucumbers
FUKUSHIMA -- An agricultural cooperative has given heart-shaped cucumbers to a newly married couple as a gift to share with guests at their wedding ceremony.
Company employee Kazuo Okuyama, 25, his 23-year-old wife Takako and guests at their wedding ceremony received the cucumbers in Date, Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday.
JA Chiba Midori in Chiba Prefecture developed the cucumbers and sells them between November and May, while JA Date Mirai grows and sells the cucumbers from June to October.
"We grow them with love," an agricultural cooperative official said.
The specially-shaped cucumbers are also on sale at the Tokyu supermarket outlet in the Tokyo Midtown commercial complex in the capital's Minato-ku. (Mainichi)
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