Two days ago when Stephen Harper was asked what kind of vegetable he would be, he said he'd more likely be a fruit because he's sweet and colourful.

Yesterday, when Duceppe toured an apple orchard, reporters couldn't resist.

As Duceppe chomped into an apple, one asked "If you were a fruit, Mr. Duceppe, what kind of fruit would you be?"

Duceppe paused, shook his head to the left three times and turned the question around on the journalists,
"If you were a pickle, what kind of fruit is that?"

Now this doesn't make a whole lot of sense in English. But there's a French expression "traiter de cornichon" (calling someone a pickle) which means, if I understand correctly, telling someone they are not too bright.

Journalists took the jab in good humour.

— Sylvia Thomson