I've heard in a few movies (True Romance, Enemy of the State) the slang term "Eggplant" called to someone, usually by an Italian to someone that's not an Italian. What does that mean?
2006-10-01 15:00:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Usually they just say the Italian word for eggplant which is pronounced Moon-yon. I don't know how to spell the real word. Either way, it is a racist term.
2006-10-01 15:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by serendipity 2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True Romance Eggplant
2016-11-12 04:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by tameka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggplant Parmesian. It is a vegetable dish that they serve in Italian restaurants. The guy is telling you that you have the brains of a vegetable. He is also giving you a visual of what he wants to do to your skull when he is through with you. There is also the possibility that he is threatening to shove one of those puppies up your behind. It has been used so many different ways in so many movies. In True Romance they were using the term specifically to refer to how an eggplant starts out greed and then turns purple. That was a racial comment similar to the story Hopper tells Walken about how Sicilans are the spawn of blond haired blue eyed iItalians and *****, brown eyed Huns. Of course Walken killed him for the comment.
2006-10-01 15:06:46 · answer #3 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In the movie True Romance, it was used as a derogatory statement by Dennis Hopper to Christopher Walken in an attempt to anger him by insulting his heritage, specifically that he was not from a line of pure-bread Italians but rather a mix of African and Italian.
2006-10-01 15:05:10 · answer #4 · answered by fla_dan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an Italian slang term for someone who is African American, knida like the "N" word in that's supposed to be insulting.
2006-10-01 15:10:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y'all so dumb an eggplant is d I c k that you can see through someone's pants
2015-12-24 08:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by skeemo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eggplant is bringal, mostly purple, look like an egg most time.
2006-10-01 15:12:05 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
italians use it as a racist term for a black person
2006-10-01 15:04:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that to be a reference to people of color....specifically black people.
2006-10-01 15:02:51 · answer #9 · answered by submariner662 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is used to describe someone who is African American.
2006-10-01 15:02:08 · answer #10 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋