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an Adolf Hengeler 1904 painting

    
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a René Magritte painting

       

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little 1888 gooseberries for a tart,  acidic,  tangy,  sour pie . . .

wash it down with unsweetened lemonade
      
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in 1943 Busby Berkeley created this film set for Carmen Miranda's performance
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the dancers look tired in this photograph

        

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there are many varieties of plums,  all of them lewd and suggestive ... these are from 1854

      
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an 1886 illustration of mulberries . . . rude prurient filth!
      
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exposed fruit should stay in the marriage bedroom,  and not be vulgarly paraded in decent public ... Willem Kalf knew that when he painted this in 1659 so let's continue,  and disregard all of the vulgar sexual aspects of fruit . . .

       
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oh my 

      
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chemicals on a pineapple ... who would make love with you now,  tart root?
a Hans Schleger poster,  1960        click twice
      
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an Agnes Miller Parker illustration, 1940s?
      
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1961 'Funny Face' powdered drink mix for children

 
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1903 ornamental berries from France        click twice
      
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a Vincent van Gogh still life painting       click twice
      
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a 1922 "Vanilla bush laden with fruit" ... the paper sheets were for the photograph
      
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a Charles Harper illustration
      
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an old advertisement for printing inks

          

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a Giovanni Battista Ferrari illustration ... this is how limes used to look,
and here's a modern lime fruit redesigned . . .  

      
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a Willi Exler illustration,  1960       click twice

      
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 a Bernie Fuchs illustration

    
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"The Young Bacchus"   Franz von Stuck,  1909?       click twice

    
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German Ornament,  1886?