🧩 BND Motif Index · M1920
Bent bananas
A far-off union's regulators are said to be banning some beloved national staple, the sausage, the curved banana, the favourite crisp, and the scare is retold every few years; others mock it as a recycled myth, pointing to the plain evidence across the border.
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “a fiction about "bent bananas” “Has anyone told the Germans?” “I declare we are banning the British banger. Euro federalism is on its way!”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-11 “A report that the EU is banning British sausages is mocked as a recycled euromyth, since Europe is full of sausages.”
M1920 · first seen 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works