Is That a Banana In Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to Hear From Your Editor?

Just got a call from my editor telling me I could not use the word "banana" in a comic strip.

Well, to be fair, this is the context in which I used the word (Click on it to enlarge):

I argued that there were a lot worse terms I could have used for a Speedo, such as "grape smuggler."

That didn't persuade him.

I told him he was the first editor to ever censor the word "banana."  That didn't persuade him either.  He said he would censor that word each and every time it referred to a penis.

We went...