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?
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
4 Comments
PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 282d
Nice little bit of trivia for us.
coaxil@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 282d
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.