You're in grape peril: supermarket Waitrose warns of the dangers posed by fruit.
Regular readers may recall that I once doubted the existence of Yeo Valley. I'd never heard of the Yeo mountain range and I therefore rated the likelihood of there being a valley at somewhere between 0 and 5%. Of course, I had yoghurt all over my face when I discovered that the place really does exist. Somewhere in Somerset, I seem to recall. Today, having read an article in the latest edition of The Marketer magazine, I'm astonished to discover that there really was a Captain Birdseye. Well, I need to qualify that just a little. There was a Mister Clarence Birdseye who invented the fish finger back in 1955. The avuncular, uniformed figure who dominated our TV screens for about thirty years may have been an invention of over-eager advertising creatives, but he didn't blow in on a trawler during a squall. There was actually some connection to a real human being. These revelations about fish and yoghurt are causing me considerable disquiet, because I'm wondering h...
What about Lychees - do they have a similar sign nearby? After all, your grape might cause a slight skid, but with a lychee's hard exterior, it could be like standing on a ball bearing. And anyone who's seen a Tom and Jerry cartoon will understand the problems that could cause.
ReplyDeleteAlso Lychees are sold loose, and so I would have thought it statistically more probable for rogue individual lychees to fall than an already-bagged grape that's part of a bunch. Not sure if Waitrose have thought this through properly.