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the last time i had a banana was about a year ago.. i remembered it being quite nice.

Should I try banana more? do you like it? what are the plus and minus points? i can't think of anything wrong with it apart from the skin that can trip people up.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus - watching girls eat one the long way.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mashing a banana and spreading it on a thick, crusty slice of bread is awfully comforting when you're feeling sorry for yourself.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Eating it then also works.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

so you guys mean actually eating one yourself in its natural form is a no-no?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

or is it just better watching girls eat it/mash it

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

bacon & banana sandwiches.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I always remember banana sammiches to be nicer than they actually are. I do like bananas but as soon as they start actually smelling like bananas then euw!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

dud. the texture, the smell, ugh, so gross.

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Eating it suggestively gets attention alright.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

So does dropping your cacks in the middle of the Hight Street though.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Bananas are yum. They're not just for hangovahs y'know.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

are they good for hangovers too?? i should get some for next week

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the main problem that banana's have is their uniformity. I dont mean that in terms of size and shape, but rather in terms of taste.
You often hear people tell stories of how they were in Kenya and had the best mango of their life, or that oranges really are much better bought fresh in Florida. Banana's entirely lack such diversity, and so lack the dynamism, the excitement it brings.
One simply has a banana, if you love em fresh, thats how you eat them, if you like them cresting on the edge of mold (like me) then that is how you will have them. Bottom line, this lack of diversity makes bananas a very difficult fruit to relate to moments in your life. And (with the exception of Ken's prurient addition) may explain the apathy with which this debate has (thusfar) proceeded.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not Velveteen Bingo!! he added the prurient bits

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

but is the uniformity not reassuring? like, that, if you buy one, unless it's rotten to hell, you're going to know what you're getting, without the anxiety of like "what if it's not as tasty as the other one i had??"

surely there are some people who will vow for this comfort in safety? especially on ilx? is it maybe like going to a sam smith's pub?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

there are other dangers - two unrelated new york ladies told me on separate occasions that they were afraid of tiny spiders who live just under the tips of bananas.. they pluck out the last bit with their fingers as a rule, to prevent nasty lip/spider confrontations

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I do that too but never knew why.

Fancy that.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Their will allways be those who crave the safety of the familiar. My question is whether, because of such familiarity they can ever be either C or D. Perhaps Bananas Meh/Meh is a more apt dicotomy.
Ken, soz about the prurient thing, I just love that word.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 30 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Plantains are the Ron Jeremys of bananas.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like bananas.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate bananas. They are gross.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i love bananas. they are lovely.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bananas are awesome. I eat at least one a day, either in cereal, a smoothie, or just by itself.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Potassium rocks for sore muscles.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. and I think the hangover comment upthread is spot-on too.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The band called The Bananas is really good. I have seen them. They are also nice.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Most popular fruit in the world. Eaten in every country. What could be bad about them?

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love bananas. I think the best bit is that you unpeel them, and it's like eating something from a wrapper so it doesn't feel like an effort like other fruits. I like banana sandwiches too. I had a banana with custard the other day. You should try that.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite possibly the world's most perfect food.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

DUD. i have a "thing".

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like bananas when they are crisp and still a little green. I hate hate hate the stringyness factor though, and if there is even one brown spot I get grossed out and end up throwing out the whole thing.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Their texture and flavor does not reach its zenith until some browness can be seen.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I just had a free banana. When I was little, bananas were my favourite fruit and my dad suggested it was because I was lazy they were so easy to eat. I don't think that's true. A bad banana is rare and a great disappointment. A really good banana (in this country) is also rare and quite the treat. Most bananas are just good. A reliable fruit.

Tony Blair is reported as eating over-ripe, black bananas, to boost his energy levels. Scientists say there is no evidence that over-ripe ones are any better at this than normal ones. Maybe Tony Blair will apologise for getting it wrong.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are amazing.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic: They're the most filling of all fruits.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm eating a frozen chocolate covered banana right now. it's wonderful.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently I am the only person who hates bananas.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

those are great in theory, but I don't care for the texture of a frozen banana. And it loses most of its flavor when frozen. However, Ben n Jerry's Chunky Monky is heavenly.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

More than a cantaloupe?

My parents were huge brown-banana proselytizers, but I like the firmness (firmity?) of a nice bright yellow one. The chalky paste of an under-ripe banana, however, is one of the most disappointing things ever.

xpost - surely any lack of taste to the frozen variety is more than made up for by the CHAWKLIT@

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a weird thing with cantaloupes. i don't know from one time to another if i'm going to like them or not. sometimes they taste great to me, other times i think they're disgusting.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In France they call cantaloupes "melons." And they call honeydews "cantaloupes." Although the source of this info has proven unreliable on other scores. I know what you mean about the bad ones - they're tangy. And not in a good way.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 September 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I disagree with Lukey upthread about banana uniformity. Plantains are utterly different, as are burros, manzanos, ninos and the little red ones. I had some manzanos awhile back that were unlike any banana I'd ever tasted -- delicate & cakey in texture, with an almost perfumey floral fragrance, and a taste somewhat of vanilla. mmmmmm.

I love bananas.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

love bananas, I eat one for breakfast most mornings.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

They're good! I have one waiting for me for a late-afternoon snack!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's an interesting and somewhat alarming article about the threat that lack of genetic diversity poses to the worldwide banana crop:
http://www.thedominican.net/articles/banana.htm

― briania (briania), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

and here is one of the first useless things i ever created for the web, ca. 1996!! and i never looked back

http://www.thebluedot.com/borderequalszero/colorguide/index.html

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i try to get em right between "5" and "6"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bananas, Best herb ever.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha okay now I've had one between 6 and 7... and I believe it does matter!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

classic.

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 September 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I HATE bananas

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love bananas, but I HATE anything that is 'banana-flavoured'. Ewwwww.

And bananas should be eaten when they are at least spotty brown. I like mine a little bit browner than that. People who eat them when they are all yellow or even with a bit of green are mentalists - they are not ripe yet! They should be kinda mushy! They are much better for your system this way - less acidic.

I was drunk with ken c last night and he had a banana when we were in a grocery story at 2am. It wasn't ripe in my opinion but he seemed to like it.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and how in god's green earth have we gone this far without mentioning the amazingness that is BANANA BREAD! oh man a piece warmed up with some butter on it mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Had one for breakfast, teetering on the edge of sloppiness. There's still one of that bunch left, but I think it'll have to be banana bread or pancakes. Mr B I could make banana bread and bring it to the pub tmro!

They are great, and it's a classic know-it-all thing to note that they are morphologically the petals of the flower of a gigantic herb. Or something. Better than going on about tomatoes being fruit not veg anyway.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The fact that they aren't really a fruit is one of the reasons I hate them

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That stupid advert for stupid Clairol Fruit Essences (which is rubbish for your hair, well, my hair at least) with those stupid tacked-on monkeys with their funnny Northern accents really annoys me. "And what do we get? Bananas!" like bananas are something shit.

My flatmate laughed out loud at the other day. She is one of those people one wonders about in the cinema, I think. I felt bad.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

They are something shit!

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What does one wonder about her, I wonder?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Why they are laughing at something that was not funny the first time one saw it, let alone the 34th.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

people who laugh at the ads you mean???

god I loathe them.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT WE'RE IN THE CINEMA. WE ARE HERE TO LAUGH. YOU TOLD US WE WERE BEING ENTERTAINED

― Zombie Hordes (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell are those new Cadbury ads like? They're excrutiatingly awful.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Happiness ones? I hate the advertising industry.

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

My inability to spell is not endearing.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"what do we get? bananas!" is a pun though right? on the expression "bananas" meaning nothing?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i had my first banana in a year (as mentioned upthread), it was pretty good. i was drunk though.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Since when has 'bananas' meant 'nothing'?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

a long time?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It should have been "plums", eh Alba?

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never heard anyone say 'bananas' to mean 'nothing'. Unless I have misunderstood all those times and thought people were actually talking about bananas.

Can I have a second opinion on this?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't "get" bananas you "go" bananas

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite.

"Herbie goes nothing"

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Ken is thinking of peanuts? I often am.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanuts is right. Bananas is wrong. In so many ways.

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i've definitely heard people say bananas to mean nothing, much like when they use "peanuts" in that sense. maybe it's not as widely used as i had imagined. can anyone back me up on this??

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

neither can google. :( came back with bananas

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This stuff sounds implausibly bad but really it's great...

http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/photos/bananabread.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

does it taste of bananas? (actual bananas rather than nothing)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It tastes of madness

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!

When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death,
And as he takes your dough, he tells you...

"Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!!
We have string beans and onions, cabBAges and scallions
And all kinds of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned toMAHto
A Long Island poTAHto, but

Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!"

Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
Someone asked for "sparrow grass"
and then the whole quartet
All answered:

"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they.
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
But yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today."

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

...... which would be a good name for a crappy horror movie or, conversely, a crappy name for a good horror movie (xpost)

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I phoned Norwich Union for a quote. The automated messaged actually askes me to ask them to quote me happy. Did I fuck.

(though their rates were very competitive, even without the online discount which, now I come to think about it, made me very angry)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

...... which would be a good name for a crappy horror movie or, equally, a crappy name for a good horror movie (xpost)

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Bananas are a whole world of ming.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

norwich union sell bananas now?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Norwich = Yellow

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken, that beer tastes of bananas and also slightly of walnuts. It's subtle though, it's not that horrid banana milk flavouring. Madness my arse.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Madness my arse.

* puts your arse in baggy trousers

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

*puts your ass in a house of fun

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanuts = nothing
Bananas = madness, insanity or foolishnes (as in "Herbie")

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your arse is an Embarrassment"

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm having trouble parsing your arsing.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

evil

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Should I try banana more?

try bananamour.

http://www.iris.dti.ne.jp/~yutayuta/ka/Image/BM.jpg

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread needs people dressed up as bananas:
http://www.ofb.net/~epstein/sl/bananaman.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.easleyscostumes.com/assets/images/auto_generated_images/a_b003.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't do that, you'll tempt Calum back

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

is that his willy poking out the bottom there? xxpost

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Eurhgh that second one looks like she's NAKED under the costume.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

She probably has banana-print underwear

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

so hot

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Why eurgh, Liz? That makes her hott! Knowing all you'd have to do is peel away the skin to get to the ripe soft fruit beneath...

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ofb.net/~epstein/sl/bananaman.jpg

awwww satan's laundromat is so great.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

.... but what about the "tiny spiders who live just under the tips"? (xpost)

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Are we still talking about bananaa?

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 October 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

dude catch up already

we're on bananab now.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate everythin banana flavored except for banana bread, which is odd, but there it is.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

i'm eating a frozen chocolate covered banana right now. it's wonderful.

chocolate-dipped frozen bananas are my absolute favorite snack food right now.

http://www.tasteline.com/document/files/amsweets_frozenbananas_111.jpg

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm eating a frozen chocolate covered banana right now. it's wonderful.

chocolate-dipped frozen bananas are my absolute favorite snack food right now.

http://www.tasteline.com/document/files/amsweets_frozenbananas_111.jpg

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

so nice i had to post it twice!

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

those snacks look high maintenence

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the ones i buy don't have the nuts.

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the nuts that would need all the attention

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Emasculated bananas?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

btw that pic came from this site (turn images off if you are at all hungry)

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I'd be alive if I didn't have at least 2 bananas a day. It's believed I inherited a potassion deficiency trait. :/

I'm glad I don't dislike bananas.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mjölkchokladbavaroise med bananpytt

http://www.tasteline.com/document/files/efterratt_bavaroise_222.jpg

― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i love frozen bananas.

― youn, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dvillage.org/DVILLAGE/MT-BLOG/BIKE/PIX/Fosters-p.jpg

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Banana Foster's!

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Nimrod, is that bacon inside that shell?

Banana & bacon. *shudder*

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

i tried SUN-DRIED BANANANAS last week at the health food store - so much banana flavour in so tiny a banana piece! it's kind of weird

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

like all-natural banana chewy candy/gum with lasting flavour

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

also, banana chips: delicious but in fact fried and sugar-saturated :(
whatever will still eat them on occasion

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

like banana chips? or more like dried apricots?

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh!

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

there is a whole world of differently dried or otherwise preserved banana wares out there

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

the last time i had a banana was about a year ago.

This sentence boggles my mind. How do you go a year without a banana?! I mean, assuming you aren't allergic or something.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i still prefer the perfectly ripe organic banana
even though it prob still exploits someone somewhere and sits on a truck for a long time

xpost
i've gone a year without eating a banana!

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

i really hate those really small bananas. why are they so dry? like a mouth full of cottonballs.

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

the last time i had a banana was about a year ago.

This sentence boggles my mind. How do you go a year without a banana?! I mean, assuming you aren't allergic or something.

can they even grow bananas in england?

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

haha it is an art house cinema film the year without bananas
xpost

i have never tried those...

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

no bananas in england

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

there do not have to be bananas in england, because england can exploit banana-based economies just like everyone else.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

in the shade of the banana tree

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

blood bananas

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Banana Boat song is a very sad dirge about the plight of exploited banana boat workers, who must lift 6, 7, even 8 foot bunches of bananas which sometimes hide the deadly black tarantula, and they toil all night until they cry at the heavens, "ME WAN GO HOME!"

They need a union.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

trader joes ha those sun-dried bananas, sold under the name FLATTENED BANANAS, and they are delicious

― and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

has

― and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

i wld buy them for the name alone

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure I've eaten a straight banana in several years. I like them fine, I just don't ... trust them. I have trouble trusting fruit.

Kenan, "Day-O" is a song of celebration, because they get to go home; "Star-O" would be the pro-union dirge!

― nabisco, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

no no, they do not GET to go home. The sun rises, and they are suddenly made aware of the long hours they have worked, all through the night, and though they may devoutly WANT to go home, alas, no reprieve is in sight.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

BANANAS LEAD TO BACKBREAKING LABOR AND CALYPSO SONGS. BOYCOTT BANANAS.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I guess "Star-O" could be a song of high capitalist expectations, and "Day-O" could be a song of their having been shattered by morning, even if the arrangements on the Belafonte record go the other way:

Banana ripe it smell like honey
Star a come and I carry me load
Woman sweet she take your money
Star a come and I carry me load

vs.

A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
(daylight come and he wan' go home)
Hide thee Deadly black tarantula
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)

Note how the honeyed ripeness of the former gives way by morning to the tarantula hidden within! Kenan is onto something here.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

bananas are the most popular fruit in the world!

and but really, one might think that the fruit industry seems so innocuous, what with being abt fruit, but it is not really the case :( so it's kinda otm re: banana exploitation. i mean, last i checked del monte were still assholes.

xpost
ok

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

i wld grow my own bananas but i am told it wld take a lot of effort and hydro power and i don't even have land for that let alone the geodesic dome greenhouse sub-building to main geodesic dome house in hinterland

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I love bananas forver & always.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I still think when someone pretends a banana is a phone is the funniest visual gag.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

You don't get a lot of that one anymore. But back in the old days, boy...

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

haha it is
xpost

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I have trouble trusting fruit.
I have trouble trusting fruit.
I have trouble trusting fruit.

????

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

We were bananaphone maniacs. It was the cornerstone of any good routine. Every party, every weekend, somebody busted out the ol' bananaphone, and the guys would bust a gut laughing, and the girls would all go home with this guy, who was obviously the funniest guy that had ever been.

Those were good times. The halcyon bananaphone days. *sigh*

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Raffi's phoning up THE LAFFS!

http://www.gcsltdc.com/raffi.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Good show, old man. *golf clap*

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

omg haha

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

"there's always money in the banana stand"

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

"I can't hear you, there's a banana in my ear."

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/thumb/1/16/ErnieBertBananaEarPart1.jpg/200px-ErnieBertBananaEarPart1.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ernie is on some next-level comedy tip. He's not even holding it like a phone! He's just jamming a banana into his ear! Wildly irreverent, A+++

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I eat bananas more than any other fruit except for apples. Occasionally I forget to buy some, but on average I probably have a couple per week. I find them to be a very easy fruit to trust, since it's almost always apparent from the outside what it's going to be like inside.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah exactly, i have a harder time "trusting" apples or pears

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

good pears are the best, though, better than an apple or maybe even a banana. but they don't happen often. :"(

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

same with good peaches

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

or fucking avocados

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

avocados are like little balls of slimy green heaven. like kermit the frog with a halo.

― Will M., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

and a tumor

― remy bean, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

and sometimes they are malevolent bastards despite their appearance
xpost
yeah

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I know bananas are easier to trust than other fruits.

Unfortunately, my trust issues are bigger than that.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've been hurt before. Once bitten, twice shy. Have you ever been BITTEN by a tangerine? Talk to me then.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Guys did I tell you about my banana dog? Here's what you do: get a hot dog bun. Insert banana (peeled you fool). Top with peanut butter (optional). Eat.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

yes, it hurts nabisco but when you get a good one. . .grab ahold of it, don't let go. take a bite. you have to take chances in life.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

LEST WE FORGET

http://www.jesus21.com/content/tracts/img/banana.gif

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

BEHOLD

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

i trust you like a bunch of bananas in the sun
i love you like a bunch of bananas, yeah baby, you're the one

guitar solo

bananaaaaaaaaa-aaa-a-anas

(i am listening to rush)

xpost x a bunch
lol

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

nickalicious you are kind of a genius btw

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I like to make Mister Rogers' BANANA BOAT: slather peanut butter on a piece of bread & then wrap it around half a banana. Godly.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

BANANAS are as much of a DUD as marijuana is a CLASSIC. F.

― max, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

dude have you never had a banana on weed?? A++ would consume again

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha the first thing I ever think to eat whenever I have "the munchies" is bananas. Every time. Either I lack enough potassium or I am unbeknownst-to-myself gay for cock shaped produce.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

The problem with the "bananas are the atheist's nightmare" thing is that bananas are gross. Surely the fact that the food that's so perfect for people to eat is also really disgusting is point against god's existence? Or at last an argument that He's kind of an asshole.

― n/a, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't eat them -- the allergy seems to have faded, but it isn't gone entirely, and the itchy swelling throat is no fun.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Banana's are god's trick to make everyone look totally silly while interacting with them.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't tracer have a website devoted to the different colors of a ripening bananas? I want to see that again.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

You guys ever split the banana longways down the middle? It splits into three weird little segments, I usually eat two and then offer the third to the heavens.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

i love bananas

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I used to play a HILARIOUS PRANK on my parents: the night before breakfast, I'd grab the bananas and puncture them with sewing needles near a side of a ridge, drawing them around the periphery of the inside to secretly slice the bananas. Then when they'd unpeel them for their cereal, the bananas would already be sliced! Omigod, they never knew what was coming next!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha that is like a reason for and against having children

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

The banana's weirdo big brother the plantain is one of my ultimate favorite grillfoods.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

meh. too starchy.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

x-post - We lived in Key West when I was younger and I would get pan-fried plantains at the Cuban restaurants around there all the time. So good.

Bananas and custard with cinnamon = amazing.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Banana dogs are going to be at the next BBQ I hold. Genius. Perhaps they can be fried bananas?

My gramps used to say that EVERYBODY ate tons of bananas during the depression. Cheap and filling.

― Andi Mags, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah fried bananas would be good, kind of like a banana dog version of the Elvis. They are good with honey on them also.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5ce04b3127cce949b7df5fc1700000016108BZuWjdm3ay

― remy bean, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

odd.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

the fried plantain is the greatest food in the entire world, esp. with a bit of maple syrup for dipping.

― get bent, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

THIS GUY

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've found the key to good plantains is to buy them at least a month before you need them and let them sit at room temp until they've been completely black for a week or two. They get sweeter and the bitterness goes away.

I also get a slight itchyness in my mouth when I eat bananas but no swelling. And the itching is not bad enough to keep me from eating bananas.

― nickn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

The banana's weirdo big brother the plantain is one of my ultimate favorite grillfoods.

-- nickalicious, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:54 PM (57 minutes ago)
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meh. too starchy.

-- kenan, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:01 PM (49 minutes ago)

You've never had a good plantain. And I'm not entirely surprised, since I've had some pretty bad ones in Chicago. Last time I went to Irazu, they were dry and starchy, but a couple weeks ago at El Llano, I had some really moist and sweet ones.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Fried, with rum, maple syrup, and/or creme fraiche + brown sugar, in a crepe. Or with Nutella. Heaven. Or wrap in foil with some chocolate and put it on the bbq.
Bananas are the only food that significant other will not eat so I am often deprived :(

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

i do not understand

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

i also like plantains but have less plantain experience
apparently, i read, most banana chips are actually made from plantains

re: the BBQ-ing of bananas: i have had banana-strawberry bbq-ed skewers with caramel sauce and i remember them vividly to this day b/c they were so freakin good

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! That explains why the first time I ate a plantain I thought, 'ew, this is as starchy as a banana chip.'

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Banana chips sully the good name of bananas, and probably plantains too.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

the banana chips i buy, tho not that often, are from the health food store bulk vertical bin thing and they are GOOOD. i think this is b/c they are full of fried fatness and sweet sugartude.

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.funnytimes.com/store/images/bananas.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have to stop myself from eating a whole bag of banana chips in a sitting. I get them from a middle eastern bakery that also has awesome dried mango and dried pineapple.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

banana chips in your oatmeal: classic.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

The banana's weirdo big brother the plantain is one of my ultimate favorite grillfoods.

-- nickalicious, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:54 PM (Yesterday)

meh. too starchy.

-- kenan, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:01 PM (Yesterday)

RONG

― and what, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

It has already been pointed out that I prolly wasn't getting good plantains, and I calmly accept this possibility. But thanx anyways.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have to stop myself from eating a whole bag of banana chips in a sitting.

exactly. total candy.

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

I'm watching this right now and it's kinda boring

― 囧 (dyao), Saturday, 14 November 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

It's no Love and Death.

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 14 November 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

think my apartment is like some hellish faux-tropical environment and i've never noticed. entire bunch of bananas gone brown and wrong inside three days!!

― arnott's shjapes (haitch), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

i've put a new bunch in the fridge ...but that's not really correct, is it

― arnott's shjapes (haitch), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

It apparently helps if you hang them up, rather than having them on a table.

The thread reminded me to listen to this again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm2TSY20woM

Which is great.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/nyregion/the-secret-life-of-the-banana.html

― j., Friday, 4 August 2017 17:49 (eight years ago)

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