I've noticed a change in things (I think) since my early days. Are y'all ready for this? Are you sure?

I went to Sam's Sunday and in my shopping I picked up a cluster of half green bananas. Today is Wednesday and they are turning brown and the skins are getting shriveled. I don't remember bananas having such a short life. Did I just live through that earth shaking event or are the "Dark Forces" messing with us again?

After a banana starts getting brown spots I ain't eatin' it. It's trash bag time.

I'm worried that this is just another way "they" are sneaking past our defenses. I hope Gus reads this and can't sleep for weeks because of it.

Ain't nothin' wrong with bananas with spots on them. If they go past that, make banana bread.

Or throw em in the mash barrel.

I can't stand to eat them UNTIL they start getting a few spots on them. Then they call to me, along with the loaf of white bread, and the jar of Peter Pan..........

Got that right!

Best line of the week!!!

prolly just an odd bunch unless you got one of the new varieties they are working on....unfortunately we have been eating the same banana variety since 1836 and that monocrop is dieing out due to a fungus....

That's not quite true. Although the Canvendish has been around since 1936, we didn't start eating it in quantities until the 1950's when the Panama Disease killed off the Gros Michel.

I hate green bananas. It's like eating a stick. I want them with blots of black speckles. Ship them to me Micky I'll at them. They do seem to get dark right away when they used to take a week to get ripe. kwg

My wife makes excellent banana bread. Unlike many others that I have come across, hers actually tastes like bananas. The one thing that I had to break her of was polluting it with nuts (and their never-can-be-totally-avoided bits of shell).

Hands down the best of the week and probably the best of the last several months!

Elvis style for me too. The day after that get the nilla wafers and some puddin and let's go to town!!!!

They are sugar spots.

Just makes them sweeter.

Mick: you must not be as old as me...I don't even buy green bananas at my age...

Gros Michel is a Canvendish cultivar.....Canvendash is a group of very similar cultivars, not an individual type.....

Don't you remember the old Chiquita Banana radio jingle from the 1940s?

"I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say
"Bananas have to ripen in a certain way �
"When they are flecked with brown and have a golden hue,
"Bananas taste the best and are best for you.
"You can put them in a salad,
"You can put them in a pie-eye.
"Any way you want to eat 'em,
"It's impossible to beat 'em.
"But bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator,
"So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator.
"Oh, no, no, no!"

I'm with you Mick, can't stand them ripe. I only buy 3-4 at a time. Eat one a day with breakfast cereal.

Bet you're a big hit on karaoke night at the old codgers home...

My most useful function is providing a target for younger guys who cream in their jeans at the opportunity to throw darts at a decrepit old goat.

Eating banana's is a treat that I am looking forward to enjoying again post Kidney Transplant. Have to stay away from Potassium for now but as soon as I am off of the all liquid diet I will be on for a week or so post surgery, I am going out for a big baked potato and a banana split for dessert!

Back on topic, they DO seem to ripen awfully fast of late. My wife still can eat them but we only buy 2 or 3 at a time now because they are just for her and she is like Mickey. Won't eat them once they are spotted. Niether one of us bakes so the bread thing is out.

Or make banana ( cookie) pudding.
With instant pudding of course, not cooked.

Takes more than that to get me to cream my jeans...

Guess the compliment did a touch and go off of your noggin.

Heck Mickey I got a bunch that never ripened even after 3 weeks!

Don't like banana bread. I eat them with my cereal.

At what point do bananas become ineligible for banana pudding?

I believe that it's when they are failing two subjects or have committed a serious violation of the conduct code.

Keith, these went from half green to overripe in 3 days! I'm telling y'all, there are sinister forces at work here. You can't say I didn't warn you.

I toss them off of my back deck and the deer gobble them up peel and all within an hour. They seem to like rotten citrus as well.

Bounce a rock off one of our deer and it will run over to see if it's an edible morsel. Urban deer are a real pain.

During the Depression, a couple of friends of ours hitch-hiked to Florida to look for jobs.

As they approached Pensacola, road-side banana stands reminded 'em that they hadn't had anything to eat in 2�3 days.

At that time, Pensacola was a port of import for bananas. Importers sold the too-nearly-ripe bananas to locals who then sold 'em at road-side stands along the highway leading into Pensacola.

Our friends had 25� between 'em and decided to blow it all on bananas.

"Gimme a quarter's worth."

The proprietor cut down a stalk of bananas for him.

"We just want a quarter's worth."

"That's a quarter's worth."

Friend told us later that for a nickel, the two of 'em had all the bananas that they could eat.

My mother raised her four younger brothers, the youngest of whom was an image of Perry Como.

After the conquest of Tarawa, he and another Marine hauled-in a trailer load of bananas � wrote her "Wish you were here to make us some of your banana pudding."

She did indeed make outstanding banana pudding.

And I indeed did envy those Marines � wished that she and I were both there to help lighten that trailer load of bananas.

Dang I reckon sellin all that insurance and fixin alla those guns can make a feller uppity!


can't eat em with brown spots?


I just try and eat the really bruised parts fast.


but love me some overripe bananas once a year. Momma takes those mixes em up with yellow cake, frosts it with chocolate icing and I get my b'day cake.

though these days I refrain from eating my b'day cake in my b'day suit.

now that mental image should keep you awake for a week or so Mickey Coleman.

no need to thank me Gus, us drug addled guys gots to stick together

Also great, with Nutella................

Mickey, you need to start freezing those things when you get them.

It just must be George Bush's fault

Nah, it's because the delivery trucks run on ethanol.

Natural ripening process interrupted at some point by refrigeration..

Tic-tic-tic

Fairly typical these days.. They're picked green, then before they're sent to the stores they reside for a time in a gas (ethylene? I can't remember the name) which is used to enhance ripening..

My wife has about a one-day window to eat a banana - which is why I buy no more than 3 at any one time - otherwise the 4th gets too ripe for her and she won't touch it.. I don't mind 'em at that point, but not much further..

She does make the best banana bread I've ever had though..

Each week day lately, the Quemado Senior Center has brought me a banana in my breakfast. Each banana has been just right � just ripe.

I call 'em "Mickey."

Fitting nickname, don'tcha think?