Fruit (slang) fruit" (and rarely "old tin of fruit") to the 1920s in Britain possibly deriving from the phrase "fruit of the womb". In the United States, however, both "fruit" and "fruitcake" are seen as negative with fruitcake likely originating from "nutty as a fruitcake" (a crazy person). A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived from the words "costard" (a type of apple) and "monger", i.e. "seller", came to be particularly associated with the "barrow boys" of London who would sell their produce from a wheelbarrow or wheeled market stall. Costermongers have existed in London
Strange Fruit: A Dutch Queer Collective recognized that these men are more so victims of their culture than they are of the queer standard (Tayeb: 129). They catered to the struggle of being ethnic and queer. Strange Fruit took on a creative approach and used a variety of mediums to convey their key messages and forms of support. An example being when the Strange Fruit Machine became involved in the 1996 Feminist Dansen op de Denkvloer Conference. They carried out a poetry poster project (Tayeb:134) where lesbians of colour across the world (including women within Strange Fruit) created one hundred posters with poetry expressing the struggle