Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 27, 2020

How did they even obtain banana essence if bananas themselves — from which to make the essence — were difficult to come by during WW2?

What a waste of good champagne. A supermarket variety will do for polishing shoes.

Yikes. Good thing I’ve never consumed any shoe polish.

Berluti is living evidence that it’s stupid to pay for over-priced design shoes and overpriced Dom Perignon.

You gotta really LOVE the idea of bananas to do that. UGH!!! Reminds me of a true story as told by George Fenniman, the assistant to Groucho Marx, on the old game show that Groucho hosted. Groucho always interviewed the contestants a bit about their lives before the game began and one guy said he had 10 kids. Groucho asked him why he had so many kids and the guy just smiled and said, “I don’t know, I suppose it’s because I just LOVE kids.” Groucho replied, “Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once and awhile.” Needless to say the exchange was never aired on TV.

Hard to fly a pig

So – Why were bananas hard to come by during WW II?

And original filling for Twinkies was made with real bananas (wonder what the shelf life of those Twinkies was). The banana shortage in WW II lead to the changeover to the “creme” Twinkies filling we know (and maybe some of us love). As with banana flavoring, that creme filling was/is a feat of chemistry rather than gastronomy!

And no, I don’t know whether Twinkies v2.0 came in a fake banana flavor, or turnip/parsnip flavor.

As a former hog farmer; I’m betting the Danes crossed a Duroc and a Hampshire (look it up). Sorry, my inner Sheldon Cooper got loose on this one!

The Danish issue was probably the Schleswig-Holstein crisis with Prussia.

Hope they didn’t run the pigs up the flagpole…

Champagne has always tasted like flat grape juice to me. I guess I just don’t have the caliber of tastebuds needed to appreciate it.

I used to use Thunderbird to clean my Nikes. A much better use for it than drinking it.

I got confused one time and polished the champagne bottle and drank the shoe polish. Not recommended.

Let’s breed a pig that looks like the American flag – Wow! would that start a ruckus…

now that’s really cool what those Danish farmers did

Olga has shoes with good taste.

Simple. Take mashed bananas and add water. I stand banana essence. Duh!