– Possibly plum, I think.
– Or peach, perhaps.
– Strawberry.
– Technically not a fruit.
– We shall let that pedantic comment pass by unremarked.
– Let’s stick to the rules.
– Tomato.
– I fear you are toying with me.
– Be thou my plaything . . .
– Of course, Carmen Miranda knew all about fruit.
– Indeed. Her undergarments were very fruity.
– I think you will find it was her hat.
– Not in the film I saw.
– Are you sure it was Carmen Miranda?
– That’s what it said, although the credits were in Japanese. And she wasn’t wearing a hat. Or very much at all.
– We digress. Courgette?
– Cucumber.
Martin Stannard