You've gone bananas!!?!
Answers: Where did this phrase originate or what relation does it have to going crazy?
I don't know for sure but I have a good guess. The phrase might've come from people observing monkeys. The monkeys love bananas and when they are shown a banana they go crazy.
Maybe? :)
According to a strange site I found dedicated entirely to news about bananas, it was a fairly recently originated quote:
"Everybody knows what "going bananas" means: you've just turned plain cuckoo. But what are the origins of the phrase? Strangely, even the most authoritative source on Anglo etymology, The Oxford English Dictionary, isn't sure. The first known usage of the term has been credited to a 1968 academic publication, which noted that Kentucky college students were saying it."
Here's the rest of the article, which also explains WHY people started saying "gone bananas":
http://discovolonte.typepad.com/discovol...