Waiting to pay for her basket of goods at the Sainsbury Local in Clapham, one of The Grocer team noticed a bemused look on the face of the cashier as she came across an aubergine.
Holding it aloft, the cashier asked her colleagues: "What is this?" There followed a pause as other cashiers contemplated the object. The cashier at checkout seven said triumphantly: "It's an erotic vegetable." "Oh," said the first cashier, and began to enter the word into her till, until our journalist piped up: "I think you mean exotic ­ although you could call it erotic, I suppose."
You can buy all sorts in Sainsbury these days.

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