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You're in grape peril: supermarket Waitrose warns of the dangers posed by fruit.

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  1. 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.

    Also 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.

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