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Hi Jamie,

Please read the following news article. Taken from the Daily Mail site as I am not allowed to post the link.

''A cancelled supermarket order of more than one million fruit pies were put on eBay  today with an opening bid of just 99p.

If all the puffs, which were originally destined for Asda, were to be placed side by side there would be enough to stretch from London to Bournemouth.

Furthermore, it would take a family of four eating one pie a day each, 746 years to munch their way through the job lot of 1,090,000 frozen mixed fruit puffs.''

Pressplay Ltd, who specialise selling on surplus or unwanted goods, started the ten-day online auction with an opening bid of 99p for the entire 76-tonne load.

They hope someone will jump at the 'rare opportunity' to acquire the 70gram pies, which would reach 90,000ft if stacked on top of each other.

A spokesman for the company said the 13,000 cases of 84 pies equates to 130 pallets loaded onto five articulated lorries. They are currently in storage in Warwickshire.

Pressplay, of Great Dunmow, Essex, are a major player of eBay. They have more than 4,000 items up for auction at any one time.

Luke Schonenberger, company e-commerce manager, said: 'This is quite possibly the most bizarre and largest thing we have ever had to sell.

'Most of us think it will make people laugh and it will be a ten-day auction and we're hoping for a bit of a bidding frenzy.'

Unfortunately the hungry bidder will have to find a way to get them back home as the  states that the 'buyer is to collect.' And then there's the small question of storage...

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As it says, the buyer has to collect and also store these items and being realistic, the majority of them are likely to go to waste when they could be used to give to the homeless and starving - basically those in need!

We saw how moved you were when you were helping to feed the homeless on your visit to America - is there anything you could do, please, to help salvage the fruit puffs for those who could really make use of them???!!! 

Thank you for reading.