# Religious question: What color is a banana? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 27, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464 "2012-06-27T14:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/81 "2012-06-28T01:04:55Z")
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/82 "2012-06-28T01:08:29Z")
Yes we have no bananas today! (If bananas really WERE intelligently designed, wouldn’t the wrapper be edible too?) ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/83 "2012-06-28T04:59:08Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Ok, let me get this straight. > > God makes things in his image. So are you saying, God, is a banana? :eek: Only humans are made in God’s image, my dear Smurf. 'Cept your mom. She was a hamster 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/84 "2012-06-28T06:38:51Z")
No matter what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/85 "2012-06-28T07:11:35Z")
Bananas are yellow, mostly. However, that isn’t their only, or even necessarily _primary_ defining characteristic. Cheese, for example, is also: yellow, mostly, but cheese is not a banana. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/86 "2012-06-28T07:20:22Z")
A ripe Cavendish? Yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Then it turns brown. This is a goofy question though. Bananas’ coloration is highly unstable. They go from green to ripe color (possibly yellow or red depending on cultivar) to dark brown very very fast. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/87 "2012-06-28T08:24:49Z")
Would you think less of me if I admit that I don’t understand the relevance of the question or how it is supposed to link to religion in any way shape or form? All I am sitting here wondering is if a Buddhist Banana is Pink, a Muslem Banana is Polka Dotted, A Christian Banana is Orange, a Jewish Banana is Watermelon and a Baha’i Banana has rainbow stripes. Am I stupid, unimaginative or just plainly clueless about religion? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/88 "2012-06-28T08:42:16Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Ask the Banana what color it is. It’s the only one who knows for sure… Or [ask](http://www.google.com/search?q=banana&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS470&prmd=imvnse&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=txjsT9uRDYW1rQH964zlBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CD4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=913) Google. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/89 "2012-06-28T09:27:58Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Would you think less of me if I admit that I don’t understand the relevance of the question or how it is supposed to link to religion in any way shape or form? Can’t help feeling there’s a ‘gotcha!’ marching our way with ill-deserved confidence (and probably, relevance). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/90 "2012-06-28T10:53:26Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > All I am sitting here wondering is if a Buddhist Banana is Pink, a Muslem Banana is Polka Dotted, A Christian Banana is Orange, **a Jewish Banana is Watermelon** and a Baha’i Banana has rainbow stripes. > > Am I stupid, unimaginative or **just plainly clueless about religion?** (Bold added.) No, you’re just plainly clueless about fruit. How could ANY banana be a watermelon? :dubious: [sub](Unless it’s also a mango.)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/91 "2012-06-28T17:22:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > (Bold added.) > No, you’re just plainly clueless about fruit. How could ANY banana be a watermelon? :dubious: I don’t know, but I really want one right now. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/92 "2012-06-28T18:05:25Z")
At any given time, most bananas in existence are (a perhaps yellowish) green, no? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/93 "2012-06-28T18:26:40Z")
[Red.](https://www.google.com/search?q=red+bananas&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=lVK&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=EqDsT9iSJIaQ8wSm3-j7BQ&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=1371&bih=831) Or yellow. Or green. Or brown. I came to this conclusion because I had several banana plants in my front yard for a few years. One produced red bananas. I thought they weren’t as sweet as the yellow ones. I like mine not quite ripe, though, so when they get just past ripe, I made banana bread or smoothies. It wouldn’t take much for someone to convince me that there was such a thing as a purple banana. That person would only have to show me a picture, and explain what variety it is and if it’s a man-made hybrid grown for specific culinary niche, or if it’s a found-in-nature variety that lives on Madagascar or something. A lot of fruits can be more than the one color that we North Americans typically associate with that fruit. There is more than just One True Banana™. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/94 "2012-06-28T18:47:22Z")
Thread point fail. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/95 "2012-06-28T18:48:06Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > There is more than just One True Banana™. No there is not! And I am your king! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/96 "2012-06-28T19:05:44Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > (If bananas really WERE intelligently designed, wouldn’t the wrapper be edible too?) God knew the important role the banana peel would one day play in comedy. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/97 "2012-06-28T19:18:40Z")
A banana is banana colored. The color is banana. A banana is also banana flavored. The flavor is banana. To descibe the color of banana is like trying to describe the flavor of banana. Banana is Banana. There is no what or why. There is only Banana. This is the Zen of Banana. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/98 "2012-06-28T19:36:35Z")
It’s yellow dammit, now get to the point! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/99 "2012-06-28T19:40:52Z")
Does a plantain have banana-nature? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464/100 "2012-06-28T19:42:35Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > This is the Zen of Banana. To do is to be. -Lao Tzu To be is to do. -Buddha Do be do be do. -Frank Sinatra [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-question-what-color-is-a-banana/626464.md?page=6)