A French onion delivery made eyes water more than usual when Dutch authorities discovered two hand grenades hidden among the vegetables, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Wednesday.

The grenades, dating from 1925, were found in a consignment of onions heading from France to a factory in the northern Dutch province of Zeeland.

Dutch authorities asked the OPCW to examine the find.

"The projectiles were identified to be consistent with pre-1925 French and German manufactured old chemical weapons," the Hague-based organization concluded after investigating the case.

"However, the type of chemical fill could not be identified," it added in a statement.

The reason for the weapons' presence in the delivery remains a mystery.

The grenades will be destroyed, but si

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