Fool is unacquainted with bananas, throws away the fruit, finds the rest bitter. (Similar for watermelon, plums.) — Mythoi

Motif

Fool is unacquainted with bananas, throws away the fruit, finds the rest bitter. (Similar for watermelon, plums.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1732.2

Cited in the index

general England, Canada, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Ignorance of certain foods.

Filed beside it

Fool unacquainted with sausage. He squeezes the inside out and takes the covering for a sack Woman is unacquainted with tea, serves the boiled leaves with butter

Carried in tale types

Fool is Unacquainted with Bananas (Watermelon, Plums) · ATU 1339B 1 recorded variant

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