Emmerdale fans have called out shopkeeper David Metcalfe for his unprofessional antics.
In last night’s visit to the Dales (Wednesday 8 August), the village Lothario was seen doing something rather unhygienic with a fruit – and ITV viewers were pretty grossed out by it.
Well, they do say ‘Hell hath no fury like a disgruntled shopper who thinks they’ve been sold compromised fruit’…
Don’t they?
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In a short scene which showed David stacking his melons outside his shop, a lone fruit rolled off the stall and he proceeded to play keep-uppy with it before catching it in his hand.
Perhaps more worryingly, he seemed to be talking to the fruit, saying: “Why don’t they do as they’re told?”
Fans were then disgusted when he put the misbehaving melon back on the stall to be sold.
Wouldn’t it be a bit bruised, fans cried!?
So why has David put that melon back on his shelf after kicking it?! #fsa #hygiene
#emmerdale @emmerdale @MrMattWolfenden— A S H L E I G H (@amcnamarax) August 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/DionPetrie/status/1027256044202991617
Hey David, I don't want that fruit now you have been kicking it about and bruising it. #Emmerdale
— Diane ☣ (@Brassylassy) August 8, 2018
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One outraged viewer tweeted: “So david kicks the [bleep] out of a fruit then adds it to the stand?”
Another said: “Hey David, I don’t want that fruit now you have been kicking it about and bruising it.”
A third continued: “That’s it David kick the fruit then put it back.”
“So why has David put that melon back on his shelf after kicking it?!” asked another, describing it as a matter for the Food Standards Agency.
And that wasn’t the only thing David (Matthew Wolfenden) did to upset ITV viewers… No, he was on a roll (pardon the pun).
Viewers later questioned how a pot of olives in his store, named David’s, could amount to a whopping £3.60.
When a huge queue built up in the shop after David went AWOL (probably harming fruit out front), Matty Barton stepped in to serve the customers.
And one man, impatient to buy just one jar of olives, was charged £3.60 for the privilege.
“£3.60 for a tub of olives?,” raged one disbelieving fan.
A second typed: “£0.59 in #Aldi #Emmerdale Your props buyers are being ripped off at those prices, where you getting them from, fecking ‘arrods?”
Another added: “I hate olives, but £3.60 [bleep] rip off #emmerdale.”
£3.60 for a tub of olives? £0.59 in #Aldi #Emmerdale Your props buyers are being ripped off at those prices, where you getting them from, fecking ‘arrods?
— Darles Chickens (@Darls_Chickens) August 8, 2018
The amount of times I've queued for ages to buy some olives, could count it on one finger, the middle one.
#emmerdale— Askaway (@marti6118) August 8, 2018
#emmerdale £3.60 for olives ???
— Brian (@Briancorbett6) August 8, 2018
Perhaps Emmerdale scriptwriters were having a bit of fun with their fans, though, after last year’s ‘olive-gate’.
Olives caused controversy in the shop in 2017, when David claimed everyone liked them.
Of course, ITV fans were quick to put David right!
And who can afford them, at those prices?
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