Bananas!

Patsy Faye

Patsy Faye

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I'm not keen on Bananas, but a couple of funnies to relate .....
During WW2 and after, people around me were hankering after bananas ......
'Yes, we have no bananas - we have no bananas today' I heard them sing. So....
at junior school, the class was asked 'what do you believe Heaven to be like children?'
My hand shot up - 'Its full of bananas !' says I .... ☺️
Years later, I read a book on Tommy Steele and he related how everyone wanted bananas, but none to be had
until early 50s and everyone waited eagerly for delivery. Well Tommy and his pals couldn't wait, never had a banana
so off they go to the docks where they were being unloaded. They managed to get a bunch and each took one each.
Tommy thought it looked odd to eat but bit down on it and promptly spat it out. YUK, tastes awful, like plastic!
When he got home with the last banana for his Ma, he told her he spat it out and watched her 'peel it' OH !
says he, I didn't know about that, I just bit right into it and chewed - YUK :confused:
 
The original Twinkies were filled with banana creme, but due to a shortage of bananas during WW2, Hostess changed to vanilla. (I learned that in a trivia contest.)

I've heard that some people who have a latex allergy are also allergic to banana peels. They can eat the fruit with no problem.
 
John Brunner said:
The original Twinkies were filled with banana creme, but due to a shortage of bananas during WW2, Hostess changed to vanilla. (I learned that in a trivia contest.)

I've heard that some people who have a latex allergy are also allergic to banana peels. They can eat the fruit with no problem.
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Interesting! I did not know that. :cool:
 
I eat a banana almost every day....
Actually every Sunday I make flapjacks, using 2 mashed ripe bananas, 2 eggs, flour to thicken, and I add frozen blueberries just as I am pouring the batter into a pan..... I vary them by adding cinnamon, or vanilla extract.. I also add a bit of sugar to the batter..
Serve with real maple syrup......
 
Bananas are not only one of my favorite fruits but also one of the few that I am able to eat regularly on a low-residue diet. I've always liked bananas, and for some reason, they were one of the few non-local fruits available when I was a child in Michigan. While citrus was only in the local stores around Christmas time, bananas were always on hand.
 
I like bananas and most other fresh fruit. My husband and I split a banana, apple, and mango every evening as our snack. The mango is frozen fruit chunks (thawed), since it is not freshly available all year. I will be eating a lot more fresh fruit, since it tis’ the season for fresh fruit. I am already enjoying some blueberries and strawberries. Watermelon is my favorite! It has to be at peak ripeness; sweet and juicy. Not overly or under ripe. I have goldilocks syndrome on many things.:D
 
Krystal Shay said:
I like bananas and most other fresh fruit. My husband and I split a banana, apple, and mango every evening as our snack. The mango is frozen fruit chunks (thawed), since it is not freshly available all year. I will be eating a lot more fresh fruit, since it tis’ the season for fresh fruit. I am already enjoying some blueberries and strawberries. Watermelon is my favorite! It has to be at peak ripeness; sweet and juicy. Not overly or under ripe. I have goldilocks syndrome on many things.:D
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Have you found yellow watermelon lately?
 
I love yellow watermelon! Sometimes, I could find one that was sweeter than the red. 30 plus years ago, we lived at a place that had wonderful soil. We planted some yellow and red watermelon in our garden. I ate so much watermelon, one would think I would be sick of them. But no, I am not. I think I said before somewhere, I could live off of fruit as long as it is fresh and peak flavor.
 
When I lived in Georgia, I had a co-worker who raised watermelons. If her watermelons got to big for them to eat or market easily, she would give them to me. I had two young boys at the time and they would eat a 50-pound watermelon between them. Their bellies looked like those starving kids with kwashiorkor because their bellies got distended. We were oltd that watermelons were planted around the tobacco fields so the farmers didn't have to carry water and food out to the hands while they were working. They could just walk to the edge of the field and crack open a watermelon. I always liked the seeded watermelons over the seedless, but seedless is all we can get here.
 
MIL pushed banana plants onto me. They will survive regular grass mowing but not fire. She has some producing. Great but I cannot handle the smell. Had an admin leaving peels in every trash can in the office. Had she asked for my job - I was about to leave but she could not have handled it. So she had a legal issue.
 
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