Grows on Trees: Difference between revisions

** In ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', the inhabitants of Oogaboo are named after the crops they grow on their orchard trees—Jo Apple, Jo Candy, Jo Stockings, Jo Files, etc. Jo Files also has a storybook tree, where the stories are "dull and confusing" if they're picked too soon, but if you wait until they're ripe, they're excellent. In the same book, a prisoner in the Nome King's domain survives by eating off what he calls "Hotel Trees", which grow coconut-looking things you can unscrew to reveal they contain a three-course dinner, from soup to nuts.

* ''[[Snow Crash]]'' has a dog whose virtual reality includes steaks growing on trees.

** Let's just say that, when they decide to leave the island, a fully organic ship turns up, complete with a figurehead (with a disturbing resemblance to the only female on the party).

* In ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' (1883) by Carlo Collodi, the Fox and the Cat tell Pinocchio that if he plants some gold coins in the ground, they will grow into a tree with a thousand gold coins growing on it. It turns out to be a fraud.

 

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