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Baby-looking pears scare many netizens
By Ke Jiayun |
March 12, 2013, Tuesday
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PEARS resembling toy babies appeared in a Beijing supermarket and caused a big stir online as many people find them spooky, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
These pears, labeled "Lucky baby pear," looked like sleeping babies.
A woman surnamed Wang posted a picture of the pears on her microblog and it went viral on Weibo.com, China's answer to Twitter.
Wang said she found the pears in a Sam's Club supermarket in Yizhuang residential area. A two-pear pack costs 20 yuan.
Some netizens said they felt scared as "these babies might open their eyes any moment. It's unthinkable to have a bite on the babies," one Weibo user tweeted.
However, a Beijing Morning Post reporter visited several supermarkets in the city and failed to find baby-like pears.
A Beijing horticulture expert, Lei xiaomao, said these pears grew inside transparent plastic molds which gave the fruits the human shape. They taste the same as normal pears.
"I think it is merely a marketing stunt of the producer and is not worth copying by other fruit growers," Lei said.
These pears, labeled "Lucky baby pear," looked like sleeping babies.
A woman surnamed Wang posted a picture of the pears on her microblog and it went viral on Weibo.com, China's answer to Twitter.
Wang said she found the pears in a Sam's Club supermarket in Yizhuang residential area. A two-pear pack costs 20 yuan.
Some netizens said they felt scared as "these babies might open their eyes any moment. It's unthinkable to have a bite on the babies," one Weibo user tweeted.
However, a Beijing Morning Post reporter visited several supermarkets in the city and failed to find baby-like pears.
A Beijing horticulture expert, Lei xiaomao, said these pears grew inside transparent plastic molds which gave the fruits the human shape. They taste the same as normal pears.
"I think it is merely a marketing stunt of the producer and is not worth copying by other fruit growers," Lei said.
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