A sandwich shop owner believes his new shop has been blessed with good luck after finding a tomato resembling the Hindu god Ganesh.
Rajesh Pattni, who opened Mumbai Sandwich in Belgrave, in December last year, was preparing ingredients for the lunchtime rush on Thursday when he came across the bizarre big-nosed fruit.
He said: "I'd never seen anything like it before. I put it out for my customers to see and our family's priest, who's visiting from India, came in. He said, 'It looks like Ganesh' and he blessed it
"Then he drew the eyes and everything on it and he told me it would bring us luck and that it was a very good thing for our business.
"Ganesh is the first god we pray to when we do things. It's lucky this tomato has come into our business."
Rajesh, who runs the sandwich shop with family members, said the weird tomato seemed to have had a supernatural affect as soon as the priest blessed it.
