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| Things aren't going pear-shaped for the humble fruit - they are going baby-shaped. |
Britain could soon see the arrival of pears from China which have been shaped to look like youngsters.
Farmer Gao Xianzhang spent six years perfecting his idea, which involves growing each fruit for a certain amount of time inside individual moulds.
Despite costing £5 each, people in his home village of Hexia, in northern China's Hebei province, have been snapping up the unusual fruit.
He said: 'People seem to think they are cute or lucky and will buy them as soon as they're off the tree.' He has cropped 10,000 of the pears this season and is planning to export them to Britain and the rest of Europe.
Luckily for Mr Gao, he should have no problem getting his irregular shaped fruit past EU officials.
In July, wonky shaped fruit and vegetables such as curvy cucumbers and knobbly carrots returned to supermarket shelves thanks to the abolition of EU rules on the size and shape of 36 types of fruit and veg.
For 20 years, EU-wide marketing standards encouraged only the finest-looking produce to reach shops.
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