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Or: Putting the "fun" in Funicello

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Michael Procopio
Mar 08, 2025
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Annette Funicello in a pineapple print dress holding a pineapple, and wearing a sparkly white pineapple-inspired crown.

When life hands out lemons, Italians make limoncello. When life doles out pineapples, this (half) Italian-American makes funicello because he happens to think limoncello tastes like furniture polish.

If you’re asking the question, “But Michael, what is funicello?”, please refer to the above image, which should give away the game (even in alt text).

The b…

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