Why is Miku shown with a leek? Many times when I see images of Hatsune Miku, she is shown holding a leek or spring onion.






Apart from headphones and microphones, other popular and well known Vocaloids, such as Rin, Len, Kaito and Luca, don't seem to have any strange items like vegetables.

So why is Miku shown with a leek? And if there aren't any other Vocaloids with strange items, why is she the only one?
Hatsune Miku holding a leek comes from a parody video of the Leekspin meme. The Leekspin meme is a video of Orihime from Bleach spinning a leek in one of the episodes with the Finnish folk song Ievan Polkka playing in the background.

On another note, the vegetable she is holding is actually a "negi" or green onion. However, the English dub for Bleach called it a leek.

Sources:


The Hatsune Miku parody video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbA9BhCTko
Leekspin meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leekspin-loituma-girl