Talk:land of fruits and nuts

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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 [1], 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.​—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)