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[kinzel]

Friday I was at the grocery store looking for a banana or two for Saturday's breakfast and I asked the young man putting up large bunches of seaweed green fruit if he's seen, you know, fruit  I could eat in the morning. He scratched his head and said "You want yellow? Most people get them as green as they can!"[Poll #1435756][Poll #1435756]

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Middle-school gross-out banana story

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I went on a week-long trip to Colorado in February with a middle-school group. Due to unanticipated snow depth, the bus had to park a mile from the cabin, and all food and gear be packed in. The food was NOT arranged for this. The trail looked like Chilkoot Pass; a student would start with a large load and gradually discard parts of it to what he or she could manage through 20" snow. The older kids found a small sledge and made several trips to pick up the discards.

One of the early casualties was a large box of bananas. By the time they were retrieved they were definitely frostbitten, dark brown as bananas get in the cold, though not at all bad, if we could just use them immediately. Banana bread seemed obvious.

Turned out the easiest way to extract thawed frozen banana pulp from the skin (especially for middle school cooks) was to break off the end and strip out the insides like milking a cow. Reaction of the non-cooks to seeing this, and subsequent choice to eat the banana bread, was sharply divided between "Cool!" and "Euwwww!"