• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    … Actually the lore behind banana peel gags is more interesting than you think. They were a super cheap snack in Victorian London and the bananas they had were the gros Michel cultivar which had really thick slippery peels and a lack of general cuture of actually throwing garbage in the bin meant that a lot of them rotted on the street so early comedy stage acts started using them as a gag because slipping on them was a common sometimes life threatening hazard.

    But because art borrows from art the banana peel gag outlasted the cultural problem that sparked it by over a century.

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      1 year ago

      I had no idea about the Gros Michel peels - that’s fascinating!! Thank you for sharing that!

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      1 year ago

      I read once on reddit that a dominos pizza guy claims people still occasionally demand the pizza for free since it took more than 30 minutes to arrive.

      A promotion that ran for a few months 33 years ago.

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        1 year ago

        But immortalized in stuff like the Ninja Turtles movie and various other tv shows. Exactly same principle!