Cole Porter's patter/list song "You're the Top!" from Anything Goes -- a great snapshot of pop culture in 1934 -- includes in the list of compliments "You're an old Dutch master/You're Mrs. Astor/You're broccoli!" This is not, as you might think, a joke, broccoli was legit a fadhttps://twitter.com/E_Briannica/status/1254935939639414784 …
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My favorite thing in this song btw is explaining the line "I'm the nominee, of the G-O-P/Or 'gop'!/But baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top!" "You see, in the 1930s, it was popularly believed the Republican Party was only for out-of-touch bigots who hated the poor"
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Why don't we say "gop" anymore? I bet they'd really hate it
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My favorite fun banana fact is that artificial banana flavor doesn't taste/smell "right" because it was developed to match the Gros Michel, the dominant commercial variety before it got wiped out and replaced with the Cavendish.
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Freakonomics?
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Huh. I wonder if that's why George H.W. Bush didn't like it. Something that wasn't especially common when he was a kid.
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