You’ve probably seen this on social media; users comparing embattled UK PM Liz Tuss to a head of quickly wilted lettuce.
It’s a very British joke, started when the Economist called Tuss “The Iceberg Lady,” bluntly predicting that her career would have “the shelf-life of a lettuce.”
That’s all it took.
A tabloid called the Daily Star quickly put up a live stream of an ordinary head of lettuce beside a framed photograph of Truss, accompanied by the question: “Day one: Which wet lettuce will last longer?
At one point the lettuce even donned googly eyes and a wig. Over the weekend the hashtag “#lettuceliz” was trending.
Thursday, the lettuce won.
Liz Truss resigned, earning the dubious honor of being the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.