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> a longstanding association of elephants and alcohol in popular thought What? the hell? Maybe not watching television for over 20 years has left me more out

by johnea 9mo ago

> a longstanding association of elephants and alcohol in popular thought What? the hell? Maybe not watching television for over 20 years has left me more out of touch with "popular thought" than I realized...

doobiedowner 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants
throw-qqqqq 9mo ago
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499983 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499983 > The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/16/4/20200070/34761/Genetic-evidence-of-widespread-variation-in https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/16/4/2020007... > Possibly the most iconic is the story of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) and marula fruit. According to this widespread lore, elephants across Africa preferentially feed on the fallen, fermenting fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea), becoming intoxicated
avadodin 9mo ago
Didn't Dumbo get drunk in the eponymous movie? You don't get more pop than that.
- TylerE 9mo ago
  85 year old movies are not exactly the cutting edge of pop culture.
  - avadodin 9mo ago
    In ye olden days, TV stations broadcasted again what they already had once. We called this phenomenon the "rerun". I would place the poster of the comment that I am replying as a 38+, so deep into Dumbo rerun territory but, perhaps I am wrong and it was a 21yo zoomer growing up in a compound.
yzydserd 9mo ago
Hence Chang Beer.
jghn 9mo ago
I remember my grandma doing a drunken "dance of the pink elephants", whatever that is, in the mid-70s. This has been a thing for a while
- HansardExpert 9mo ago
  It's from the Disney classic 'Dumbo'. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Elephants https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Elephants
nomel 9mo ago
When I was a kid, animal documentaries usually had a little bit on animals getting drunk from fermented fruit laying on the ground. Drunk elephants were often the highlight, because a stumbling, drunk, elephant is pretty entertaining to watch (although their legal drinking age seems to be MUCH lower than with human societies!).
theyneverlear 9mo ago
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morshu9001 9mo ago
Maybe the Delirium Tremens beer brand from Belgium?

by johnea 9mo ago

doobiedowner 9mo ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

throw-qqqqq 9mo ago

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499983 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/499983 > The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/16/4/20200070/34761/Genetic-evidence-of-widespread-variation-in https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/16/4/2020007... > Possibly the most iconic is the story of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) and marula fruit. According to this widespread lore, elephants across Africa preferentially feed on the fallen, fermenting fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea), becoming intoxicated

avadodin 9mo ago

Didn't Dumbo get drunk in the eponymous movie? You don't get more pop than that.

TylerE 9mo ago
85 year old movies are not exactly the cutting edge of pop culture.
- avadodin 9mo ago
  In ye olden days, TV stations broadcasted again what they already had once. We called this phenomenon the "rerun". I would place the poster of the comment that I am replying as a 38+, so deep into Dumbo rerun territory but, perhaps I am wrong and it was a 21yo zoomer growing up in a compound.

yzydserd 9mo ago

Hence Chang Beer.

jghn 9mo ago

I remember my grandma doing a drunken "dance of the pink elephants", whatever that is, in the mid-70s. This has been a thing for a while

HansardExpert 9mo ago
It's from the Disney classic 'Dumbo'. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Elephants https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Elephants

nomel 9mo ago

When I was a kid, animal documentaries usually had a little bit on animals getting drunk from fermented fruit laying on the ground. Drunk elephants were often the highlight, because a stumbling, drunk, elephant is pretty entertaining to watch (although their legal drinking age seems to be MUCH lower than with human societies!).

theyneverlear 9mo ago

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morshu9001 9mo ago

Maybe the Delirium Tremens beer brand from Belgium?