A shopper in Britain was shocked and dismayed when he saw the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin, seen from a meat department in a supermarket. Matt Gordon, 39, was looking for something to cook at dinner, when his eyes settled on a steak at 2.99 pounds, which was pretty much like the Russian leader.
"I could not believe it," he told the Sun newspaper. "I was shocked and depressed. The resemblance was amazing. It looks like Vladimir Putin." "I went back twice to where the meat was, and every time I guessed it was like a peanut," he says.
Gordon took a piece of red meat, but he hesitated to take it home with him, and finally decided to return empty-handed. "I did not buy it at the end," he says. "I do not want to be responsible for cooking Vladimir Putin." "Who knows what might happen to me? Maybe I end up being the victim."
This is not the first time that shoppers have found celebrity faces at places to sell food. In 1996, the world was astonished after a customer discovered the image of Mother Teresa in the folds of a cinnamon cake. She shared a piece of green pepper resembling a film actor, Sylvester Stallone, also known as Rocky, and matched the fruit of the nut with the image of the famous Star Wars hero Chupaka. The US president, Donald Trump, also got his likeness in a piece of butter.