A quick recap: In a 2023 speech, Harris quoted her mother, who would sometimes ask her children if “you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” as a way of reminding them that they were shaped by the community around them. Some of her detractors initially glommed onto the line, but her supporters have since reclaimed it in a big way, and in the wake of Sunday’s news that President Biden would no longer seek reelection and would instead back Harris’s candidacy, coconut and palm tree emojis and video clips of the Harris line remixed with a Charli XCX song filled social media feeds.
All of this might have you feeling confused, or amused, or annoyed, depending on your perspective on Harris and/or dumb internet memes. But here on the Food team, it just made us think of … well, coconut. Whether in the form of flakes, cream, milk or oil, it’s an ingredient that brings to mind tropical breezes and island vacations.
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