Where does this term come from, and are there any other fruits that capture the various mental states.
2007-10-03 13:38:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Cos monkeys are mad and thay eat bananas
2007-10-03 13:41:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Earliest written know use of the phrase is from a novel in 1937:
[1935 A. J. POLLOCK Underworld Speaks 53/1 "He's bananas" meaning he's sexually perverted; a degenerate
The "go bananas" to mean go mad or crazy came in during the '60s
2007-10-04 23:32:13 · answer #2 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's because "fruit" used to mean crazy a long time ago. I'm not sure why.
Fruit cake, nuts, and flakes are also still in use as slang for "crazy" or whatever.
Many years ago, before I was vegetarian, my brother had a friend who was kind of effeminate and annoying, he claimed to be vegetarian but he ate chicken and fish. My brother said his friend "eats only fruits and nuts" and I said "you are what you eat." I was very young at the time and I wouldn't say something like that now.
2007-10-03 14:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by majnun99 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I read somewhere long ago that bananas contain a very small trace of an hallucinogen which is harmless unless taken in massive quantities such as a tree full of bananas. Hence the expression "to go bananas," to go crazy.
2007-10-07 07:55:42 · answer #4 · answered by KATHRYN B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont know about fruits but nuts comes to mind.
2007-10-03 13:42:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually no
back i nthe 1800s there was a tribe in the congo who had an odd genetic anomoly. appaently their DNA was fused with the DNA of a banana tree. when they would get angry or sad banana shaped appendages would grow on their body. green at first an yellow after a while.
they became known as the mexican banana people of the south congo suburbs.
crazy stuff.
2007-10-03 13:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by captain_misinformation 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
go bananas...crazy monkey... i think its linked, when people act crazy they sometimes run around like a monkey who happy coz its jsut eaten an banana maybe..?
2007-10-03 14:51:31 · answer #7 · answered by tilly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree with the first answers..the monkey "theory" makes a lot of sense! also..a banana's odd curved shape and bright color is pretty nutty in itself and even the WORD "banana" sounds pretty silly hehe :o) xooxxoxo
2007-10-03 16:11:04 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Doll 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question.
I'm not sure--but the monkey theory above me a couple of answers sounds right:-)
2007-10-03 13:44:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
not really the last time i want bananas i simplly has bananas all over me.
2007-10-03 14:05:46 · answer #10 · answered by judith a. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋