The Top Banana

Where does the word banana come from, and why weu talk about somebody being a top banana? I think because it was a nice sounding substitute for lots of similar riffs on the same theme. But i don't think there was anything more to it. It's to come from africa and baman, which is the arabic word for a finger,. So a bunch of bananas looks like a handful of fingers, it does. And also, did you know that the date also goes back to fingers? Because the dates growing on the trees look a little bit like fingers, do they? Well, osanto, do they dates look like fingers? They look like little stubby

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