[Ads-l] banana

[James A. Landau]

A variation on the metaphor "Oreo cookie" = "black on the outside, white on the inside"

Kevin Kwan _China Rich Girlfriend_  (Kwan's inferior seqeul to _Craxy Rich Asians_) New York: Doubleday, 2015, ISBN 978-0-385-53908-1 (hardcover) page 169

referring to "Rachel", born in China but raised in the US:  "Rachel is cool, there's no bullshit with her.  And she's a total banana [footnote], isn't she?  Just look at how she dresses [page 170] in those  no-name brands, her painful lack of jewelry---she's not like any Chinese girl I've ever met."

footnote reads "Yellow on the outside, white on the inside"

- Jim Landau

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