• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    10 months 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.