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Going Bananas: How a Fruit Became American Slang for Crazy
Culture, Art, and Language
Nobody has ever been driven crazy by a banana. It's the most agreeable thing in the produce aisle: cheap, soft, pre-wrapped, impossible to hate. And yet when a crowd erupts, a toddler melts down, or your inbox hits four hundred unread, the word that comes out is bananas.
