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contyk t1_j910bo6 wrote

You don't want to know.

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mdf7g t1_j914azf wrote

There's no wrong way to eat a rhesus

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Carteeg_Struve t1_j915f4v wrote

Though popular in Cantonese cuisine, it is not often to be found in Washington D.C.

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Makuta_Servaela t1_j91tk5e wrote

Even in the other way the phrase can be taken, it's true because most wild monkeys don't often come across or eat bananas.

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beautiful__demise t1_j923dws wrote

I went to that zoo that only has one animal: A dog.

It was a Shih-tzu.

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fgyrghij t1_j92lowx wrote

Oh yea? Then you must know that monkeys eat more humans than bananas, mom!

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UBKUBK t1_j92vfbu wrote

He didn't say per human or per monkey. There are a lot more humans than monkeys so probably true even without the wordplay.

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Valuable-Pay-5740 t1_j93e8w5 wrote

The number of bananas eaten by humans is substantially larger than the number of bananas eaten by monkeys.

The joke makes no mention of the average consumption of an individual and refers to humans (approximately 8 billion) and monkeys (200,000). So each monkey would have to eat more bananas than 40,000 humans for the alternative to be true.

Not all monkeys eat bananas, e.g. the diet of a wild howler monkey is almost entirely comprised of leaves.

Humans eat a lot of bananas, India alone produced 29 million tonnes of bananas last year.

In my opinion, apart from these obviously unimportant shortcomings under pedantic analysis, its a good joke.

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dryphtyr t1_j93iwpo wrote

But there was this one guy who ate a monkey, or a bat perhaps, and caused the entirety of human civilization to shut down for a couple years. Bananas can't do that

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Narethii t1_j93me7s wrote

Real talk though, wild monkeys and apes don't eat bananas, wild bananas are fibrous and bitter and human cultivated bananas are too sugary and inaccessible to non-human primates.

So humans do eat the most bananas, more than any other organism

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hwc000000 t1_j94prfy wrote

> She rolled her eyes at me

because she had seen this joke online a million times already?

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michaelc200 t1_j952ryj wrote

Wasn't there an Indiana Jones Movie that talked about this?

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Valuable-Pay-5740 t1_j973k7i wrote

To be fair to you, I was wrong about the total, there are many more than 200,000, but substantially less than 8 billion.

If you were being pedantic you wouldn't have inclined gorillas as they are apes not monkeys

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Budget-Accident3849 t1_j97e57k wrote

I've eaten bananas but not monkeys. I don't know any humans that have eaten monkeys.

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