irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Reddit@lemmy.world · edit-27 days agoFirst two results when you search for lemmy on reddit.lemm.eeimagemessage-square425fedilinkarrow-up1986arrow-down117
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minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 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-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 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.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agoWoah. I was today years old when I learned the slippery banana trope comes from an extinct banana.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 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.
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.
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.
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.