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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
"Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Wed May 16, 2001  7:04 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Meaning of Mellow Yellow


>From: "Sheila Graham" <sheilagraham@b...>
>From: "Sheila Graham" <sheilagraham@b...>
>>I believe that 'Mellow Yellow' refers to the rumour, prevalent at the
>>time,
>that banana skins were hallucinogenic. I think you were supposed to bake
>them very gently, for a long time in a low heat, until they crumbled to a
>powder and then smoke that.
>

Actually, a book I had on "Fads and Follies" suggested that the rumor
*started* with "Mellow Yellow." But, who knows for sure?

Me, I bake bananas only in the context of banana bread.



Elizabeth Finkler
Sunnyvale, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo

"If you must be wrong, be wrong at the top of your voice!" --Lucy Van Pelt

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