irelephant 🍭 to Reddit • edit-26 days agoFirst two results when you search for lemmy on reddit.lemm.eeimagemessage-square414fedilinkarrow-up1985arrow-down117
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minus-squareJerkface (any/all)linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-25 days agoAlso: Gros Michel bananas have slippery peels. Cavendish do not! That’s where the weird trope with no remaining connection to real life comes from.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 days agoWoah. I was today years old when I learned the slippery banana trope comes from an extinct banana.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-24 days agoStuff you learn from old cartoons, right? Like how shaking salt on a bird’s tail will prevent it from flying away. Where’d that go? Seems like I saw it a lot in cartoons when I was a kid, but haven’t heard this trope in 40 years.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•4 days agoWait Jon Bois did some research on this recently: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p8W5GCnqT_M and slips have happened since the Gros Michel went extinct. So, your comment isn’t the whole story.
Also: Gros Michel bananas have slippery peels. Cavendish do not! That’s where the weird trope with no remaining connection to real life comes from.
Woah. I was today years old when I learned the slippery banana trope comes from an extinct banana.
Stuff you learn from old cartoons, right? Like how shaking salt on a bird’s tail will prevent it from flying away. Where’d that go? Seems like I saw it a lot in cartoons when I was a kid, but haven’t heard this trope in 40 years.
Wait Jon Bois did some research on this recently: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p8W5GCnqT_M and slips have happened since the Gros Michel went extinct.
So, your comment isn’t the whole story.