[Lexicog] banana

[Andrew Dunbar]

I would also say skin. I didn't even think of peel until I kept reading.

Andrew Dunbar.

On 11/15/05, Mike Sangrey <msangrey at bluefelthat.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:52 +1300, Paviour-Smith, Martin wrote:
> > To me the banana has a skin. It only becomes a peel when it is removed
> > from the banana. Strangely, for me a rind has to be a rather large piece
> > of orange .... Skin ... otherwise it is an orange peel. What do recipes
> > that require zest say, take the peel/rind/skin of an orange?
>
> "Use the zest of one orange..."
>
> This just goes to show that Annette didn't have enough appeal because
> she lacked zest.
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> This conversation keeps reminding me of David Copperfield's magic act
> where he listens and follows instructions on taking a bandanna, folding
> it several times, and placing it in a pocket book borrowed from a woman
> in the audience.  The act ends with the instructor reminding the
> magician to carefully perform a sleight of hand with the bandanna and
> then show the pocket book empty.  David Copperfield's expression at this
> point is quite worried.
>
> What's worse is he completely misunderstood the word 'bandanna'.  He
> used a 'banana'.
>
> If you picture what a banana looks like after it has been folded several
> times, you get a pretty good picture of how funny it was.
>
> O!, yes, the pocket book had no banana.
>
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