The First Lady of Fruit, Miss Chiquita Banana was created in 1944. At first, she sang her jingle on the radio, explaining to listeners, (then unfamiliar with...
Tradition has it that Arab slave traders gave the banana its name. Back in the sixteenth century, bananas weren’t the fabulous 8 – 10 inch beauties we see in...
Have you ever wondered what those annoying little stringy bits on a banana are called? Okay ... probably not; but I bet you’ve often wondered what they’re for!...
Art isn’t just about painting and sculpture .. sometimes, it’s about bananas. Artist Doug Fishbone’s most ambitious art installations have involved as many...
Freddie Mercury, lead singer of rock band “Queen,” was born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5th 1946 in Zanzibar, and died on November 24th 1991. He was a truly...
Delicious but deadly! That’s bananas for you. Statistics prove it: More people are killed each year by slipping on a banana skin than from shark attacks and...
I’ve heard it said that humans can be divided into two groups: those that love bananas, (known as bananaphiles) and those that hate them, (bananaphobes)....
The Banana Splits are my favourite retro TV program. I love all that sixties psychedelic silliness ... and, of course, the show’s always packed with...
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