In Australia, it has become an act of patriotism to buy a punnet of strawberries.
Everyone - from Prime Minister Scott Morrison to those on popular cooking websites - has been urging people to keep eating strawberries to assist farmers and to ignore a food contamination scare in which sewing needles have been found in strawberries and other fruit.
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