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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Banana Weird</title>
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		<title>Doritos that Raunch Your Nards&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The banana &#8211; pushed by Chiquita, these days, as an alternative to junk food &#8211; is the food of peace. Doritos (especially this Japanese &#8220;flavor&#8221;) are the snack of hatred, violence, and war. Right now, I&#8217;m thinking I want some Doritos. And in a semi non-random and possibly tasteless juxtaposition..the Banana Split Blizzard is my all-time favorite Dairy Queen treat. But this sign shows &#8211; even more &#8211; that her royal highness is no monarchist.) Doritos shot from ExplainThisImage. Dairy Queen from Reddit.]]></description>
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		<title>Banana and Parrot LOLZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original filename for this image was &#8220;Banana Haiku Operation.&#8221; I guess because of the seven slices? Kinda over my head. Still, a masterpiece in the illustrations on bananas department. Thanks Jocelyn!]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Disney may be planning &quot;Hannah Montana Banana.&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image from Slate. Commercial bananas have always been about brutal corporate trampling of the world. Disney hopes to extend its reach in that regard to our food supply, as Slate speculates on the company&#8217;s plan to offer fruit and eggs (!) branded with its lineup of teen idols. Image from hell.I won&#8217;t offer further comment.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kooky fruitmobile, from Funstasticus. This is the craziest fruit truck ever. Where was the image shot? Hard to say. Judging from the apparent ethnicity of the driver and the guy watching, it could be Latin America, or it could be the Philippines, or somewhere else. The other items on the truck &#8211; pineapples, squash, sweet potato &#8211; could be grown in either place. Check the banana trees growing behind the house to the left. The image is from the Funtasticus website. Follow-up: After examining the photo, my Dad notes that &#34;just above the right tire are some daikon, and about a foot above the scale is a Durian(?). If these IDs are correct, it is Asia/ Philippines. Although daikon can be grown anywhere, I am not aware of Durian growing anywhere besides Asia, Philippines, Indonesia.&#34; Good one, Dad! Can&#39;t narrow the Asia part down, but if we arbitrarily make it a choice between Indonesia and the Philippines, then the Philippines gets the nod. Why? In the Philippines, traffic keeps right &#8211; and the driver sits on the left, according to Wikipedia. In Indonesia, roadside custom is the opposite. To the extent that this overburdened little truck is being &#34;driven&#34; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Harvest of New Banana Toys (?) for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIXpdP1OSfA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;fs=1] I have no idea, and if I did, I wouldn&#8217;t share it. There&#8217;s a world of bizarre banana toys out there, but these are especially strange, and with the holidays approaching &#8211; OK, not really; but here in the U.S., the shopping frenzy has begun to begin, because that&#8217;s just how we roll &#8211; these are both super-weird and, in some cases, even unfathomable. I&#8217;ll post just two samples, both from Jill Harness at the Inventorspot.com blog. Above, whatever. Below: inflatable key rings, which are actually kind of functional. Canoe, picnic, capsize, lose the camera but salvage the drive home &#8211; happens all the time. All this stuff is from Japan, of course. There&#8217;s more in Jill&#8217;s original entry. Links to purchase, too. Blow-up key chains with suffocating bananas trapped inside. Generally, controlled atmospheres are used for ripening the fruit. Not sure if this was the intention here.]]></description>
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		<title>The Banana Splits: A Freaktastic Television Show Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: PR Newswire Readers from other countries, you&#8217;ll just have to take my word for it: &#8220;The Banana Splits&#8221; was one of the strangest things ever presented to children as entertainment. It was an NBC show with costumes created by Sid and Marty Kroft, who might best be described as Walt Disney, split into two by genetic mutation, dropped into a vat of ergot, and unleashed onto the world with at least temporary carte blanche to produce television for adolescents and potheads. Since I was the former, and the grownups in my house were the latter, I have warm memories of Saturday morning gatherings to watch this program. Four costumed creatures made up &#8220;The Banana Splits&#8221; (the name came from the rock band they formed; their jingle &#8211; also known as the &#8216;Tra La La&#8217; song &#8211; was so genuinely catchy that it was appropriated as the hook for Bob Marley&#8217;s &#8220;Buffalo Soldiers.&#8221;) The quartet are Fleegle the Dog, Drooper the Lion, Bingo the Gorilla, and Snorky the Elephant. They live in a Banana Pad and drive in their Banana Buggy, which is more than most people in the banana world can say. In a press release, Warner Bros. executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crab Fishermen think Bananas are Bad Luck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may safely wear this brand of undergarment when seeking The Deadliest Catch. My Dad sent in this one. Apparently it is bad luck to bring a banana on a fishing boat. There&#8217;s an entry on the &#8220;How Stuff Works&#8221; website that attempts to explain why. One theory is that boats carrying bananas &#8211; prior to refrigeration &#8211; had to move too fast (too keep the fruit from spoiling), which prohibited fishing. That idea dates back to the 1700s. Another was that sailors might choke to death on the fumes of overripe bananas in cargo holds. Finally, there was the idea that crew members could slip and fall on rotting banana peels. I have no clue what the answer is. But the funniest part of the account of the superstition is that it is so extensive that it involves an underwear check: if you&#8217;re wearing &#8220;Fruit of the Loom&#8221; tight-whites, you&#8217;ll have to go commando &#8211; or at least cut the label off &#8211; before you&#8217;re allowed on board. Underwearfortunately, I am required to call shenanigans on this one, since there is not &#8211; and has never been (see images) &#8211; a banana on the company&#8217;s label. You may board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of Discarded Banana Peels from London</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s all you&#8217;ll find on this blog &#8211; nearly 100 of them. Here&#8217;s part of the anonymous creators&#8217; statement: &#8220;I see them everywhere. They&#8217;re languishing on doorsteps, hanging out in the middle of the road, dangling off street signs, peeking out of piles of garbage, reclining in the middle of the sidewalk, riding the bus for free. A great number of them are bright yellow as if they&#8217;re fresh and have just been dropped, although they appear in all states of decay. I don&#8217;t know how or why they caught my attention, but within a week of being in London I couldn&#8217;t get my mind off these banana skins. Where were they coming from? Who was eating all these bananas and leaving the skins around? Why was it always bananas I was seeing, and not, say, oranges? Was it a sign? Was there something sinister going on? Apparently these little hazards were a covert operation going completely unnoticed; everyone I asked about it said that they had never noticed anything of the sort and looked at me as if I was nuts.&#8221; I buy it. By the way, you really can slip on a discarded banana peel &#8211; in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The two things I love most&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bikes and bananas, captured together in this $9.95 t-shirt I saw at a Jamba Juice in NYC. (I know, WEAK post. I&#8217;m on vacation.)]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Juice Research in India is conducted by Nuclear Energy Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atomic banana juice from India This is really more than you&#8217;ll ever want to know about extracting juice from bananas, but it is interesting, because the folks at India&#8217;s Bhaba Atomic Research Centre have figured out ways to squeeze a lot more juice from the fruit than previously was thought to be possible. I don&#8217;t know why the nuclear scientists are spending time doing this, though my (absolutely uninformed) guess is that atomic research involves advanced centrifuges, and so do the juice extraction techniques described on the linked pages. A second guess might be more political: India&#8217;s atomic energy program is a huge source of national pride and strategic military importance. Bananas are also a source of national pride &#8211; and are of huge importance to the national diet. Maybe it isn&#8217;t so silly that top minds and resources would be devoted to working on both in a single facility? Or maybe these guys just have a lot of time on their hands and got thirsty.]]></description>
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