MONUMENTAL ABSURDITIES ; Sarajevo has erected a gigantic tin of canned beef - testament to the food aid that the city received during the war of the 1990s. Andrew Gumbel looks at other odd memorials around the world ++ Built to remember

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 14, 2007| Author: Andrew Gumbel | Copyright information

Monument to the International Community

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA

The British never erected a monument to boiled cabbage and the French would rather die than think about all the Jerusalem artichokes they consumed during the Second World War but, in Sarajevo, the Bosnians have em-braced the sheer revoltingness of the food they were forced to eat during the war that kept the city under siege from 1992 to 1995.

Not only that, they've proved they have a robust sense of humour and p...

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