Featured on PDR in the collection “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)

“To the child mind”, Percy Collins wrote in American Homes and Gardens in 1911, “two bananas served upon a plate are just what they appear to be and nothing more.” Hardly an exciting dish for one’s birthday. “But” — ah! — “let the fruit be converted into a mysterious pair of porkers by the simple expedient of adding broken matches for legs, paper tails and ears, and eyes painted with Chinese white upon the yellow rinds, and it will be changed at once into an object of desire.”