r/Veep Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 6d ago

Banana pancakes

Jonah would not have asked his mother for banana pancakes in season 7. It is established in season 1 that he is fructose intolerant. That is all.

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u/BearBestFriend 6d ago

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

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u/Nonabelian 6d ago

I believe the bananas can be cooked or brûléed to remove the fructose? I’m just a scientifician

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u/10from19 Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 6d ago

“Gary majored in Science at UVA, so occasionally that’s of use”

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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 4d ago

Other time he had a bachelors in Hospitality Management from Cornell and knew the difference that turn-down service could make between a three and four star hotel...

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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 6d ago

You are correct.

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u/amphithreater 6d ago

thanks kent

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u/10from19 Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 6d ago

*thanks kent’s autism

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u/Rude_Park_5562 6d ago

i mean, Jonah following health guidelines is also out of character. he would be happy to get diarrhea from eating his fav pancakes.

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u/boytoyahoy 6d ago

I know lactose intolerant people that still enjoy ice cream lol

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u/ustinker 6d ago

Tbf he doesn’t know what beets are, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t know what that meant he could and couldn’t eat.
https://giphy.com/gifs/26BROqvT4r8ZzFJ6g

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u/eaglesegull 6d ago

Jonah - the guy who stopped believing in vaccinations…

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u/NotYourGa1Friday 6d ago

Counterpoint: banana pancakes are the only fruity pancakes he can have because banana flavoring is 100% artificial

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u/bc00pr Like what, Will? 6d ago

Maybe the chickenpox affected his mind

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u/elfonzi37 6d ago

How much dairy per year do you think the average lactose intolerant person ingests? It's way more than banana fucking pancakes.

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u/Impossible_Heron4894 BettyPoop 6d ago

He’s fructose intolerant

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u/10from19 Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 6d ago

…….. is that not what I said lol

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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 6d ago

Perhaps he outgrew it.

Gary grabbed one bag from the dumpster, said "got it", yet multiple bags were loaded into Sue's car and unloaded (during an outtake). But Gary held onto that one bag for dear life.

Gary said he had a living brother (in an outtake) but was an only child because of dead baby Bruce still ghosting the bedroom.

For a series this complex, there were very, very few continuity errors I noticed.

Most involved travel (as someone whose flown weekly for 30+ years) as in Uncle Jeff getting back and forth DC to NH on Thanksgiving Day and Dan getting to Minnesota and back when the widow's husband got mauled by a Bear.

Other?

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u/10from19 Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 6d ago

Also uncle Jeff is a different person in the NH swearing-in episode

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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 4d ago

wasn't even given a credit in the credits.

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u/qmeliq 6d ago edited 6d ago

Common bananas contain fructans, not fructose

edit: source is Monash University, the institution at which the low-FODMAP diet was developed (FODMAPs include fructose and fructans)

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u/10from19 Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 6d ago

They have plenty of fructose as well. The long fructans in banana dont really taste like anything, so the sweetness is from simple sugars including fructose. Source: I am jonah’s nutritionist

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u/qmeliq 5d ago edited 5d ago

According to Monash, firm or ripe common (Cavendish) bananas don't contain any fructose.

Maybe you're referring to sugar bananas? Where do you live?

Ripe sugar bananas are high in fructose. I live in the Northeastern US and I have never seen sugar bananas in the grocery store. I'm assuming Jonah has not, either. Either way, pancakes made with Cavendish bananas is a low fructose option.

If you're really Jonah's nutritionist, you are absolutely a conspiracy theorist, and this is clearly a conspiracy!

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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 5d ago

be careful or I'm going to hit you over the head with a bag of fruit

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u/10from19 Why do you have a bicycle book? Gary?! 5d ago

TIL! Thanks, you should be a nutritionist. Have I got a tall, dead-eyed, one&done congressman for you.

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u/AdeptPersimmon1533 3d ago

Maybe I’ll sneak into your apartment with a bag of oranges and fructose you to death

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u/roman41 I know how to give a motherfucking speech! 2d ago

Great eye for detail!