GRGR - Banana breakfast

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Wed Nov 2 10:04:14 CST 2005


The banana breakfast, with its impossible litany of foods prepared by Pirate, is a signal that the hoped-for reality (waking from the dream) isn't going to materialize.  Pirate's desperate attempt to counterpose a humanized phallus (banana as comfort food) against the rocket phallus?  The banana breakfast resistance includes American/Belgian waffles, bananas molded into the British lion, bananas flambe and, most noticeably, Jewish kreplach -- a culinary missle counterattack.



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