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[geekchick]

Mmm, girls with glasses. Amen, brother.

Unrelatedly, this is making my eyes bleed. David Hasselhoff. There's not a lot more to say than that. This is either the funniest or the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time.

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[crouchback.livejournal.com]

I never got the David Hasslehoff thing, either. That and bananas..Germans *loved* bananas about as much as they liked David Hasslehoff.

I brought some bananas with me into East Germany when I went there for a day (May of 1990, so there was still an East Germany...5 mark "fee" to get in, 50 mark "fee" to get out..payable only in West German marks, of course), and gave them to the class I and my exchange group visited.

People acted like I'd given them a few pounds of gold. impassioned speeches, tears..it was incredible. "We have not seen bananas since Angola stopped being a fraternal socialist brother!" was one comment.

Part of it was just the whole "we live in a communist hellhole where no one can get anything at all, and you've given me something!" reaction, of course. Part of it was the whole German banana thing. In West Germany, there were bananas all over the place, and people still chased after them with as much fervor as a starving person going for a meal. (i.e. in the same way they went after anything involving David Hasselhoff.)

And then there was cinnamon..for some reason, you couldn't get cinnamon prodcuts (gum and candies) in Germany. I love cinnamon, so I brought a ton of cinnamony stuff with me to Germany....and sold a chunk of it to Germans who were bouncing up and down at the prospect of getting something with cinnamon in it.

[geminigirl]

It's funny-I don't remember seeing bananas at all when I was living there. I lived in a village near Cologne, an hour or so away on train. In fact, I don't remember seeing much fruit at all, except the days we went to the market. Unless it was fruit in sweets, or fruit juice.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was a Braunschweig thang..Magdeburg (where i went in East Germany) was pretty close.

Now that I think of it, I didn't even see any bananas in Berlin.