Comments on: We're Bananas about Bananas!

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:41:53 +0000

Tara, apparently you didn't read the part in the article where they explain tripping from banana peels was just a myth. Less tripping, more reading, girl.

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:24:14 +0000

how do u make it, to trip off of banana peels?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:00:35 +0000

From Bananaman's wikipedia entry:

Look up in the sky, it's a bird!
No, it's a plane!
NO, it's Banana Man, King of Potassium.
Go, Banana, go, go, banana,
PEEL BANANA, PEEL BANANA,
Go crazy banana,
Yaaaaaaay BANANA!

Thanks for the fantastic find, Charles!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:36:49 +0000

... bananas are always, without exception number 1.

Where do they rank in profit margin?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:14:41 +0000

Plus, after mother's milk, its nature's best babyfood.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:23:59 +0000

i manage a grocery store with average daily sales between 30,000 & $40,000. At any given moment, if I look at the top 100 items in terms of sales, bananas are always, without exception number 1.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:24:06 +0000

I visited Africa (Cameroon) a few years back, and tasting the bananas & other fruits there has spoiled me for life. The bananas we get here in the States taste like cardboard by comparison. And the pineapple...

By: electric dave

electric dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:19:30 +0000

and if you happen to be sitting on a beach in the tropics,the dried leaves make great rolling "papers"

By: pld

pld — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:36:42 +0000

Yeah, reminds me how, when I was a wee teenager, dried the stuff on the inside of banana peels and tried to smoke it. You know teens, always trying to get high off whatever they can lay their hands on. Needless to say, I was a victim of the Mellow Yellow myth.

By: megmeg

megmeg — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:11:15 +0000

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring BANANA PHONE!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:27:20 +0000

It's also "the athiest's nightmare" according to no less than Kirk Cameron (or at least some guy sitting next to him): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfv-Qn1M58I

By: Aleki

Aleki — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:40:34 +0000

What about the fact that bananas are facing extinction... I haven't heard too much about that lately. Here's a link

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/5a4d4c3ee4d05010vgnvcm1000004eecb ccdrcrd.html

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:20:36 +0000

What about Bananaman he's a British comic fictional character from the 80's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaman
http://www.toonhound.com/bananaman.htm

By: oliviab

oliviab — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:04:29 +0000

Loved reading all about bananas, but what about a bit of an international perspective. Here in Australia, following cyclone Larry which destroyed many of our major banana crops in the past year, the price of bananas has leapt to about $16.00 a kilo, which is about $20US$. I haven't eaten a banana in about six months because of the cost. If anyone wants to send me a case of them, please, be my guest.

I miss them. I miss their idiosyncratic twisted shape, their cool tropical taste, and their kind of slimy texture. I miss the potassium hit they give me, and I miss the luscious sweet snack they afford. I miss their every dayness. A banana should not be a luxury item.

Bring back the cheap banana and bring it back soon. Please!