Why Orkney has a big banana giveway
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There's been a banana bonanza in Orkney after a supermarket accidentally ordered more of the fruit than there are people to buy them.
A Tesco in Kirkwall accidentally ordered 38,000 of them - that's almost double the entire population!
The bad weather meant the boxes couldn't be sent back to the mainland so instead they've been given away to community groups and schools across the area instead.
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Tesco in Kirkwall accidentally ordered 380 wholesale boxes with around 100 bananas in instead of just 380kg of the fruit.
Once the word went out, schools, football clubs and toddler groups and have been showing up to collect boxes of bananas to dish out to snacky kids.
Just two years ago another shop in Orkney's north isles accidentally ordered 720 Easter Eggs instead of 80.
But bananas go off a lot more quickly, so some people are peeling and chopping the bananas to put in the freezer before they go off, while others say they are planning to make banana bread.
