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Do not eat fish and watermelon together, do not drink corn
liquor and eat bananas, do not eat fish and milk together.

James Callow comment: "If you eat bananas after drinking beer or whiskey, it will
kill you (... student, Negro, Cleveland, 1959)"; "if you eat
bananas after drinking whiskey, you will die in agony" (...
barber, Negro, Cleveland, 1956)" -- Puckett, Ohio, nos. 27489,
27490.

Where learned: Camben ; Arkansas

James Callow Keyword(s): Incompatible foods

Subject headings: Favorites
Food Drink -- Kind of Food and Its Preparation
BELIEF -- Fish
BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness

Date learned: 00-00-1945

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