Compared to a lettuce

Liz Truss said in an interview over the weekend that being compared to a lettuce was not funny.
" I took great offence at being likened to a weak, flimsy ball of slime that's one step away from being a cabbage,"
" I took great offence at being likened to a weak, flimsy ball of slime that's one step away from being a cabbage,"
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