# Please explain the following quotation **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 9, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838 "2006-10-09T21:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![justqwerty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@justqwerty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justqwerty)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/1 "2006-10-09T21:03:19Z")
Hollywood is a great place if you’re an orange. Fred Allen ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/2 "2006-10-09T21:04:13Z")
Because then you have a peel? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/3 "2006-10-09T21:04:21Z")
Oranges thrive in the sunny climate of Southern California? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/4 "2006-10-09T21:08:48Z")
The city we normally think of as Hollywood was originally all orange groves. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/5 "2006-10-09T21:15:31Z")
Right. Nice climate, boring culture. (Remember, Allen made the remark in the first half of the 20th century, when the big cities of the East (and maybe Chicago too) were still considered the “interesting” places to live. California was frequently just seen as a veneer of movie-star glamour overlaid on a fundamentally boring factory town for mass entertainment.) ---
**Author:** ![justqwerty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@justqwerty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justqwerty)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/6 "2006-10-09T21:22:22Z")
Variation: **California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. Fred Allen** [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-06,GGLJ:en&q="California+is+a+fine+place+to+live--if+you+happen+to+be+an+orange."](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-06,GGLJ:en&q=%22California+is+a+fine+place+to+live%2d%2dif+you+happen+to+be+an+orange%2e%22) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/7 "2006-10-09T22:39:14Z")
[QUOTE=justqwerty] Hollywood is a great place if you’re an orange. Fred Allen [/QUOTE] Fred Allen was not a friend of Hollywood. I scrolled down the list of quotes provided by justqwerty and sure enough, there it was: You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/8 "2006-10-09T23:28:14Z")
I’m pretty sure it means hollywood is a great place if you’re an orange because it will squeeze you dry. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-the-following-quotation/375838/9 "2006-10-09T23:53:24Z")
Allen also famously said, “An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.”