Please don't throw your mangoes away [during Brisbane World Expo 88] | Lateral game show with Tom Scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGv1bObO2NA

During World Expo 88 in Brisbane, Australia, the city council took out full-page newspaper adverts that implored residents not to fill their rubbish bins with mangoes. Why?

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PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 282d

Nice little bit of trivia for us.

coaxil@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 282d (1 reply)

I thought for so long he was part trolling them and referring to the Milton mango, as just an insane amount of beer had been drunk

Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 282d

That would definitely have been within the spirit of Lateral!

biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 281d

I would have bet everything on popularity on mango beer somehow. But alas. Expo 88 is a bit too long ago for me, I would have been a toddler at the time.