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WE KNOW HOW you feel.
It’s Monday, everything hurts and the whole week looms ahead.
So do like we do here inTheJournal.ie HQ and get stuck into a serious debate on one of life’s most pressing issues.
Possibly.
This week: In the history of fruit, none has ever been as divisive as the humble banana.
There is no doubt that basically anything can be improved by adding a banana, cereal, sandwiches, steaks (maybe not that one), but when should you crack it open?
Green? All yellow? Some black spots? All black? Do you wait until it’s a paste and spread it on sandwiches?
What do you think? What colour should a banana be when you eat it?
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What a very a-peeling article.. ;)
You’d think it was monkey business, but it split the office.
You are all a gas Bunch!
Thanks Shane, it’s tough to get these pieces right, they’re a potential banana skin, really.
I give up, you win! Well played sir.
Giving up so soon? That’s yellow…
- of course I assumed you’d have had a thicker skin.
Yellow with a hint of green.
They have to be pure yellow!! Green ones have no taste at all…
Black is not rotten it’s ripe!!! According to my spanish friends anyway who used to buy the “out of date” bananas.
When they’re white they’re starchy, when they’re black they’re sugary……….
What’s yellow and grows on an apple tree?
A stupid banana..
Doesnt much matter since we only have the availability of barely ripe fruit in Ireland, which is picked and shipped early resulting in bland and tasteless flavour when compared to fruit grown locally in Europe and further afield, we are at a terrible disadvantage with our cool climate for fruit. Recently had fresh lemons, limes, peaches and watermelon while abroad and the difference in flavour to what we get in stores here is miles apart. I gorged on as much as i could while had the opportunity.
asian fruit is awesome.
We always had white starchy bananas stuffed down us by parents who didn’t know ant better, a blackish banana is a ripe banana.
Put tin foil on the stalk at the top of the banana, they don’t go black then!
Seriously???
Buy them just about green, start eating the next day, nice yellow bananas for about 4 days. Spots are just about tolerable, black bananas are rancid and green tastes sterile. For me the just about yellow texture is the best, they turn into a horrible mushy mess too quickly
Green just about Turning yellow.
And they keep for much longer in the fridge
Buy when green tipped to last a week or so and eat when blackening. They will ripen faster in a warm room. Green is far from ready to eat.
How about…….how do you OPEN your banana!?! From the top or bottom (top being where they are all connected). A guy i work with opens them from the bottom because “thats what monkeys do”. I say he’s crazy…….commentsmmm
From the bottom, the way the monkeys do it, no squirting of mushed banana out of the slit before it fully opens, much easier to peal off the horrible veiny bits and you can take out the seed thing much easier. I used to go top to bottom for years but my life has improved no end by switching to the bottom!! That guy in work is right, try it, you’ll never look back!
@ Damien McDonnell:
Does he peel them with his feet?
Is he very hairy?
Remove these 3 words “of mushed banana” and that comment takes on a life all of it’s own. Superb
FTW!!! I’m lol’ing!!
Yeah I have to agree with Maz and your workmate on this, opening at the bottom is less messy. I’m steering clear of any double entendres though, you all have filthy minds.
The gas off bananas helps ripen green tomatoes ,did you know that
What sort of a stupid question is that? Pink of course
Yella
The fridge is the worst place for bananas , if you need an avocado to ripen put in a brown paper bag with a couple of bananas
Bananas of any kind should be outlawed. Who’s with me? #downwithbananas
Green for me. Well preferably green both ends and a greeny hue in the centre. Black bananas are amazing put in the freezer and put in a food processor when needed. Instant banana ice cream. :)
The black ones also make amazing banana muffins and banana bread.
Oranges FTW!
Orange bananas?
Yellow but spotty! No spots means they’re filled with starch that’ll cause constepation
If you want to avoid constipation don’t eat bananas unless they are pretty soft. Also they are only sweet when a bit black as well. Otherwise you are just eating pure starch – not good for your gut.
Well I ran with the herd on this one. My cousin used to like black bananas. Yuck.
So wacky. So random.
I like em green /pale yellow spotty black ones go in the bin .
Sort of mellow yellow about the whole thing…
Skin colour.
When you eat it it should be brown!
Whatever the colour, make sure you open it from the bottom, like a monkey. http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_do_monkeys_peel_the_banana_from_the_bottom_up
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