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Why the police and fire brigade were called to deal with a fruit

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1 July 2020

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Josie Ford

 

Fruit of the mailroom

, said the ancients. Or, to put it another way, don’t yuck my yum – a precept Feedback does its best to live by. After all, what one person enjoys eating is none of another person’s business. Provided, as a former Âé¶¹´«Ã½ office regulation once had it, that it doesn’t involve reheating fish in a communal microwave.

Occasionally, though, others in the great wide world are less enlightened than we are. Or, perhaps, the gustibus turns out to be disputandible after all.

An example of this kind crossed our desks recently courtesy…

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