South Australia: Apart from beautiful Kangaroo Island, the place really doesn't have many redeeming features. Of all the Australian states and territories, it has the highest unemployment rate, the highest obesity rate, and the second-lowest mean household income. Despite its relative lack of amenities and opportunities, South Australia costs more to run per capita than any other state in Australia, thanks to years of stagnation and government ineptitude. Despite its economic disadvantage, the state has the highest fees and fines in the nation; its leaders are so lacking in strategy and vision, their only ongoing strategy to increase much-needed revenue is to tax and fine their constituency higher and harder. South Australia's traffic fine system, in fact, has been dubbed the "most unfair traffic fine system" in the nation.

So lacking are the opportunities in SA, it is now pinning its hopes on economic recovery by becoming a dump site for the world's nuclear waste.

And, as anyone in the know (from both sides of the law) will tell you, the place is a well-known drug hub in a country that, along with New Zealand, has the highest rate of recreation drug use in the world.

Thanks to its lack of amenities and social and economic opportunities, South Australia has an unusually large exodus of people fleeing to the Eastern states in search of a better life.

And so it is not entirely surprising that from this economically deprived, socially barren wasteland emerges two of the most bizarre figures in the entire diet and 'health' arena: Internet troll Harley “Durianrider” Johnstone and his partner Leanne Olivia Ratcliffe (who goes by the nicknames “Freelee” and “Banana Girl”).

This bogan duo’s primary claim to fame is – wait for it - gorging on bananas. The two run a website called 30 Bananas a Day, and Johnstone’s email signature includes the proud claim “i eat up to 70 bananas a day..check our site at www.30bananasaday.com”[sic][1].

A Youtube video titled “Watch me eat 51 BANANAS today!!!!!” shows Ratcliff blending 51 bananas, then consuming the resultant stream of mush all in one sitting. After this bizarre display of fruitarian lunacy, Ratcliff proudly displays her engorged gut before telling viewers “go fruit or root yourself” (“root” is often used in Australian vernacular as a substitute for “fuck”)[2].

Classy.

In her Youtube videos, Ratcliffe also boasts of showering only once or twice per week and of peeing in a bucket instead of the lavatory (partner Johnstone reportedly prefers a bottle…)