NYT reports that Zohran Mamdani is making a splash with his new home bidets. The NYC mayor reportedly paid $24 toilet attachments for Gracie Mansion out of his own pocket.
Bidets have been proliferating in American homes, but they've been in my family home since i wiped alone.
Peaches and human buttocks share a long history of visual and cultural comparison due to their similar rounded, cleft shape. [1, 2]
- Poetry and Metaphors: Food and fruit metaphors comparing skin, form, and sensuality to peaches date back to 17th- and 18th-century writing. [1]
- Art and Photography Trends: The visual parallel has inspired various pop culture moments, such as the 2014 trend where a vendor dressed fresh peaches in miniature lace panties, or photo campaigns comparing the fruit to babies' bare bottoms. [1, 2]
- Saturn / Donut Peaches: Flat or indented varieties like Saturn peaches (often called donut peaches) frequently spark social media jokes for looking uniquely like a rear end. [1]
- Digital Slang: Approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the peach emoji quickly transitioned from a literal fruit symbol to a widespread internet euphemism for human buttocks. [1, 2]
- Platform Revisions: Apple attempted to redesign the emoji in 2016 to look less like a backside, which triggered immediate public backlash and led Apple to revert the change. [1, 2]
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/nyregion/bidets-zohran-mamdani-graci…
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