Do you like bananas? I don’t … and I do. The plain fruit, just to peel and eat, I am not that fond of. Sliced atop a bowl of corn flakes, sprinkled with sugar, and splashed with milk, not bad. Mashed up with peanut butter and spread onto soft white bread for a sandwich, also pretty good. Layered with pudding and vanilla wafers at a hundred Southern potlucks, yummy.
I have to admit, for whatever crazy reasons, I like banana-flavored things better than eating bananas or foods with bananas in them. I suppose this started when I was a kid, with Banana Flips, Banana Turkish Taffy and Now and Laters, and the mini-bananas in Runts. And I admit, the pretend bites of baby food bananas when I was 10, feeding my baby brother, were not always just pretend.
But my all-time favorite banana flavored treat is the banana popsicle. Cold and crunchy, juicy, too, it takes you back to a summer day at the pool, standing in line in your dripping swimsuit with your sister, quarters in your hand to buy you both a treat at the concession stand…or to a day when Mom would bring you one to soothe you when you weren’t feeling well.
Maybe one of these days I will give bananas their rightful place. But this week, the cold that has been advancing and retreating over and over the last few weeks finally won, and I ended up with bronchitis. I bought a box of banana popsicles.
Oh no! I hope you feel better soon! š I’ve got to agree, there’s just something about bananas that make me gag. I enjoy the fake variety much, much more.
I’m right with you and beyond. No bananas, apples, peaches and pears in the raw but I do like apple sauce and apple cake. š
I am not a fan of bananas by themselves either. I like mine in the morning on my cereal. Then there is banana bread, banana cream pie, banana pudding, etc.
I can only eat a banana at a certain degree of ripeness, and that usually passes very quickly. Enjoy your banana treats and get better soon.
Oh, so much to say here. My dad used to say if we were out of bananas, we were out of groceries! I’m like Elsie, there’s a perfect point for me to enjoy a banana, but I eat them anyway at other stages. Just not unripe. My mother-in-law liked hers so green they crunched! And now you have me hankering for a banana popsicle!