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If you love pineapples and (wrongly) consider pineapples on pizza not a crime punishable by death (like the writer of this article) but the best pizza ever, we have bad news. 。
SEE ALSO:Former UK prime minister goes to a posh music festival, Twitter has a field day。Organisers at this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals are implementing a total ban on pineapples, and they're serious about it. 。
On the festival's website, you can see the tropical fruit appearing alongside forbidden items such as fireworks and weapons. It's just as dangerous, apparently, but there's a reason behind the ban.。
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。Credit: readingfestival/screengrab 。 Fans of Oxford band Glass Animals bring hundreds of the fruit to its gigs in homage to the song 。Pork Soda 。
, which includes the lyrics "pineapples are in my head". 。
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。The stage was decorated with pineapples. It's a proper tradition, and members of the band are willing to fight the ban. 。
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The band's drummer Joe Seaward encouraged fans to sneak in the fruit: 。
"Anyone who wasn't bringing a pineapple definitely is now," he said."It's fruitist. Watermelons are fine, but not pineapples?" 。
A spokesman for Reading and Leeds Festivals said: "Organisers were a little concerned about hundreds of pineapples turning up on site so decided to ask fans not to bring them along." 。
He added: "The tongue may be slightly in cheek on this one." 。
He added: "The tongue may be slightly in cheek on this one."。
The annual festival will run between 25 and 27 August 2017. 。