Talk:land of fruits and nuts

land of fruits and nuts
Is this real? Needs a bit of cleanup if OK. SemperBlotto 06:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks very real, more than 200,000 Google hits. Did some clean-up. Here are some clips, but the source is not an original one:
 * 1970 Terry Galanoy Chicago Tribune (Aug. 30) “Ted Liss—talent polisher” p. 42: You can make book on some of the people who were there. That is, if you get a chance to see them peform before some midnight rider from the William Morris Agency makes off with them to the land of fruits and nuts.
 * 1982 Al Strachan Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Sept. 7) “NFC West holds surprises Falcons should soar; 49ers must dig deep” p. P61: Last year, San Francisco 49ers came out of the land of fruits and nuts to surprise almost everyone and become NFL champions.
 * 1990 Ronald Reagan An American Life (Nov. 15) p. 201 @ (Oct. 1, 1999): In the presidential race, I knew we’d have to confront a different stereotype: the bias many Northeeasterns held against Californians—the one that says since California is a land of fruit and nuts, it’s a great place if you’re an orange.
 * 2003 Mary Starrett NewsWithViews.com (May 14) “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”: From the land of fruit and nuts comes word of the Oreo lawsuit. A San Francisco lawyer has sued Kraft foods because the popular cookies contain “trans fats.”

--Hekaheka 08:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That Reagan quote doesn't count, I don't think: It's not referring to the proper noun referent California but rather to a generic land of fruit and nuts. Also, the last quote neither is archived AFAICT nor uses fruits (rather, it uses fruit). The first two look good if accurate, though. &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 15:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * This needs one more citation... — Beobach 10:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Deleted as RFV-failed for now. Note msh210's comments on the citations. — Beobach 23:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Recreating with compliant citations. Equinox ◑ 16:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)