If you put "fruit"in the thread title search box and hit "go," you will find several threads on this song. In particular, this one in which Masato posted about its origins and also there are a couple of other links in it.

There's also an article from The Guardian, from 2001, posted by Joe Offer in this thread. (I didn't compare them to see if the Guardian is recycling.:-)

all the best,

kat