Another Donald E. Westlake fan, I see.
Someone oughta hit you in the face with a pie for that joke.
Banana cream, I assume?
In THIS economy?
Bad Banana
They really peeled out!
And then they split!
I recommend using bananana just to screw with spell checkers and AI.
If, yes, we have no banana then bananaNA
I think Banana Ramen would be a good noodle shop name.
You people.
At this point, I’m going to engineer them to grow above the Arctic Circle. They’ll be called Cananas™, and I’m going to sell them at a loss to destroy the robust US banana industry. Don’t say you don’t deserve it!
I recently saw a short documentary on someone who has banana plants in her yard somewhere in Montreal. I’m not sure of the yield she gets, though they do give fruit apparently. The yearly supply might last a few weeks for a family of 4…
We did build a banana baseball team in Savannah.
A small fraction of world production is Cavendish, the sweet bananas we use to make banana splits, et al. Most bananas are what we would call plantains, which are just like bananas but without the sweetness. They are a staple food in some countries, but not very appealing to most Americans (unless properly cooked). And, of course, sweet Cavendish bananas are in ecological peril, likely to go into deep decline like their Gros Michael predecessor breed.
Generally what differentiates a plantain from a banana is that plantains are usually cooked before eating. It’s a culinary difference. They’re all from the Musa genus. In fact, the term “cooking banana” is interchangeable with plantain.
It’s not “Amerucans” that dislike them raw, it’s people in general. Cooking bananas are treated more like potatoes because of their starchiness and lack of sweetness. (That’s why plantain chips resemble potato chips.)
Now I’m craving fried Plantains with a little powdered sugar on top.
I miss Harry. He had so much more to give, I’m sure.
Sometimes trying to post to Discourse on a phone really sucks.
A quick roundup on the state of the banana future, with images of possible candidates to replace the Cavendish: The Future of the Banana — The Future Market
But we still cannot build those bananas in the US.