bananas

[angus]

Last week ALDI had a sale on bananas, buy one bunch and get one free.  I got it, but it didn't really make sense because 12 bananas is too much.  Bananas don't keep well, so I usually buy no more than five or six at a time.  I like them just yellow.  Not green, but no brown spots either.  I'm eating the last two of the 12 today, and they're mostly brown, with a bit of black at the flowering end.  They taste like a mixture of booze, sugar, and isopentyl acetate. 

Then I remembered a post-doc I knew, from India, who liked his bananas very ripe and very sweet.  Spotted even, like a giraffe.  And not like a Rothchild's giraffe or a Masai giraffe either, but more like a reticulated giraffe.  Lots of brown, very little yellow.  That's way over-ripe for my tastes.

How do you like yours?

[Flake]

Mostly yellow with a lot of green

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Yellow is the correct answer.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Yellow, of course.  When they start to go brown Mrs. Grumps makes banana bread, and that's one of my favs.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yellow, of course.  When they start to go brown I make banana bread, and that's one of my favs.

[Lief 🗽]

Obviously not green because that's inedible, but any riper than greenish-yellow is not my favorite. Too sweet and too mushy.

[PPT Spiral]

Yellow with some brown spots, when they've ripened and they have more antioxidants.

[TDAS04]

Yellow. 

[Cranberry]

Yellow with some brown spots.

Obviously the only correct answer.

[angus]

Got me some platanitos at the Mexican store tonight.  El Pueblito on President Avenue, just above Harrisburg Pike.  I bet some of you know it.  It's next door to that cheesy Ethiopian restaurant that doesn't even have Tej.  I stopped in to buy a pound of jalapeños and a can of Goya nectar de mango, and the woman at the counter asked me "¿tamales?"  I said no.  She said, "de pollo, y muy fresco" so I said, "okay, just one."  Then she pointed out the platanitos.  They're the tiny little sweet yellow bananas you always see in Guatemala and Mexico.  Lately I've been seeing them in the US as well.  They're marketed as "Minis" by some big US company.  Dole, I think.  Anyway, they had platanitos for 49 cents per pound so I bought some.  I really like those.  She's a pretty good salesman, apparently.  Anyway, the tamale was decent.  I poured El Yucateco salsa verde on half of it and Cholula on the other half and wolfed it down before heading to the gym for a few laps in the pool.  I'll have a couple of the platanitos after I finish my drink. 

[Nutmeg]

Yellow with some brown spots, when they've ripened and they have more antioxidants.

When they're flecked with brown and have a golden hue, that is when bananas are the best for you.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Bananas are technically a berry.

[angus]

True, and peanuts are neither peas nor nuts.  

[dead0man]

Bananas are technically a berry.

and they grow pointing up.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

True, and peanuts are neither peas nor nuts.  

You know where I learned that from?