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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)

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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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