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'They did surgery on a grape' is the weird meme that's your new obsession

Have you heard? They did surgery on a grape.

Amanda Luz Henning Santiago

on November 26, 2018

In May, surgery was performed on a grape. A grape! And for whatever reason, the internet is now delighting in this fact.

The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia used a grape to showcase the delicate and efficient surgical work that robots can perform.

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The end result: sweet, sweet memes — and one surgically altered grape, I guess.

The "they did surgery on a grape" meme is probably one of the weirder memes to have surfaced in the past month or so. Each meme does little more than mention of surgery being performed on a grape, but in the most creative way possible.

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People on Twitter have been crafting unique visuals, varied scenarios, and some have even altered their username's for the sake of crafting the perfect "they did surgery on a grape" meme.