Doug RR's Daily Banana Facts

[knee tunes]

i eat one banana every morning

how ripened do you let the bananas get?

i like them regular yellow, but will eat up to the point where when you open it and it smells fermented

i can take a little fermenty spots, but prefer not the whole thing

There's a bug in the bottom ya know

[doug rr]

Don't rush it...


There’s something so very friendly and edible about a banana, from its helpfully tubular design to its yielding texture to its mild and alkaline flavor; something so easy, you just want to shove it into your face. It could be astronaut food, almost: a specially engineered, hygienically sealed nutrition cylinder in high-visibility yellow. Slurp it down, Major Tom. Reset your potassium levels and get back to your Martian rock samples. The peel will float off, anemone-like, in zero gravity.

But to slurp it down, to eat it heedlessly, is to waste the banana. It’s to waste, first of all, the duration of a banana. Are you, like me, a wistful nonsmoker? Do you envy the smokers their philosophical interludes, their moments of drifting peace? Then eating a banana, slowly and reflectively, is the closest thing you’re going to get to a cigarette break. Except better, because you can do it on public transportation.

There’s an orthodox, old-school surrealism to the banana: its cartoon yellowness, its absurd curvature, the fact that when we think about a banana, we think about it upside down. The banana grows upward, doesn’t it, jostling for sunlight with its fellows—but in our mind, we reverse it. We put its broken stem on top, like a nose or a little horn, and so we create a strangeness around the banana. We put it in banana quotes.

But the banana is not, or not just, a free-floating, self-signifying object. It is fragile and organic: There are processes at work inside the banana. If battered or neglected, it will flush an angry dark brown. It will become its shadow. It should be a tarot card, one of the big ones: the Fool, the Hanged Man, and the Black Banana. Pull that card and change your life.

And you don’t want to waste the taste, either—the cordial blandness of a banana. Me, I like a mottled one. The greener end of the spectrum is too fibrous and anxious for me. Green bananas squeak when you peel them. I like a deep, mature yellow, with sunspots. That’s a fulfilled banana, a mellow banana, a banana that’s been around the block. It’s loaded with the sugars of experience. It’s in the last blaze of its bananahood. Enjoy me now, it says with its banana grin. I was created for your pleasure.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... as/673496/

[Anders]

[bodysnatcher]

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/banana-before-bed

[doug rr]

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/banana-before-bed

thanks BS..I'll try this...I've slept pretty bad the last 3 nights

[bodysnatcher]

seems like bananas haven't really made a comeback since covid. banana selection used to be great. ever since, it's been average at best.

[doug rr]

I still eat one on a daily basis and apologize for not posting about it..lately I only buy about 3 or 4 at a time that still have a bit of green on them

[bodysnatcher]

that's my strategy too. otherwise they'll go bad too quickly. just ate one with a little peanut butter.

[dad]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

[bodysnatcher]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

[dad]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

[doug rr]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

no...its the same banana with a sticker on it..they all go bad at the same time..I should put this in the bone to pick thread but my mother in law keeps bananas in the freezer that are darker than chocolate pudding and always says she's going to make banana bread and hasn't to this day in 25 years

[bodysnatcher]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

no...its the same banana with a sticker on it..they all go bad at the same time..I should put this in the bone to pick thread but my mother in law keeps bananas in the freezer that are darker than chocolate pudding and always says she's going to make banana bread and hasn't to this day in 25 years

[doug rr]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

no...its the same banana with a sticker on it..they all go bad at the same time..I should put this in the bone to pick thread but my mother in law keeps bananas in the freezer that are darker than chocolate pudding and always says she's going to make banana bread and hasn't to this day in 25 years

she's a child of WW2 and she still wods up slivers of soap bars to make a normal sized one..they're not hurting for money or anything but thats half the reason we get airbnb and never stay with them

[bodysnatcher]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

no...its the same banana with a sticker on it..they all go bad at the same time..I should put this in the bone to pick thread but my mother in law keeps bananas in the freezer that are darker than chocolate pudding and always says she's going to make banana bread and hasn't to this day in 25 years

she's a child of WW2 and she still wods up slivers of soap bars to make a normal sized one..they're not hurting for money or anything but thats half the reason we get airbnb and never stay with them

i lived with my grandmom enough to where some of her WW2 habits stuck with me. My mom definitely inherited a lot of those habits and strategies which trickled down to me too. I'm not that bad, but i do certain things just bc. Particularly around stretching ingredients, which these days, i kinda have a newfound appreciation for.

[doug rr]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

no...its the same banana with a sticker on it..they all go bad at the same time..I should put this in the bone to pick thread but my mother in law keeps bananas in the freezer that are darker than chocolate pudding and always says she's going to make banana bread and hasn't to this day in 25 years

she's a child of WW2 and she still wods up slivers of soap bars to make a normal sized one..they're not hurting for money or anything but thats half the reason we get airbnb and never stay with them

i lived with my grandmom enough to where some of her WW2 habits stuck with me. My mom definitely inherited a lot of those habits and strategies which trickled down to me too. I'm not that bad, but i do certain things just bc. Particularly around stretching ingredients, which these days, i kinda have a newfound appreciation for.

I get that..but we can agree that bar soap is gross unless you're a single person living alone..

[bodysnatcher]

The ones I’ve been buying lately seem to have thick peels.

I hope that’s okay, and not a byproduct of genetically altered nerd banana.

that happened to me on my last batch and it kinda irrationally grossed me out

It does feel a bit gross.

Maybe I should start buying organic so I don’t grow extra toes.

no...its the same banana with a sticker on it..they all go bad at the same time..I should put this in the bone to pick thread but my mother in law keeps bananas in the freezer that are darker than chocolate pudding and always says she's going to make banana bread and hasn't to this day in 25 years

she's a child of WW2 and she still wods up slivers of soap bars to make a normal sized one..they're not hurting for money or anything but thats half the reason we get airbnb and never stay with them

i lived with my grandmom enough to where some of her WW2 habits stuck with me. My mom definitely inherited a lot of those habits and strategies which trickled down to me too. I'm not that bad, but i do certain things just bc. Particularly around stretching ingredients, which these days, i kinda have a newfound appreciation for.

I get that..but we can agree that bar soap is gross unless you're a single person living alone..

repulsive. even if you are a single person

[BurtReynolds]

[bodysnatcher]

a company or corporation couldn't make something so perfect

[doug rr]

lets see who can come up with the best number 11