Slipping on a banana peel is a cartoon joke.
But where did it start?

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Real 19th-century New York streets — tossed banana peels became a genuine public hazard. — Sanitation laws in the 1880s specifically banned throwing peels on sidewalks. The joke came AFTER the problem.

Slipping on a banana peel is a cartoon joke. But where did it start?