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For Grapestone Co Ltd, which sells banana-shaped sponge cakes filled with custard, the delay has been a disaster for the Olympic-themed “Tokyo Banana” confection it spent a year developing.

Grapestone’s sales had been falling since February, when the coronavirus started to hit tourism.

One hath been strangled with drinking of a hair in a draught of milk, another hath been choked with a little grapestone, another with a fishbone sticking in his throat.

Our father Adam sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat; then blame me not if I hold it dear at one grapestone.”