Doug RR's Daily Banana Facts

[doug rr]

the normal ripe banana contains 0.04% alcohol

[wease]

the normal ripe banana contains 0.04% alcohol

Does that increase or decrease as it ripens more?

[washing machine]

Did you know bananas are a good vessel for chili propagation?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Bananas are good for most plant’s growth. Throw those peels in your garden!

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[BurtReynolds]

i wonder if dime has any banana facts he'd care to share

Seems like a big missed opportunity to bump this thread.

[Sloppy Dupree]

What food has the second-most potassium, after bananas? I want the potassium but I’m watching my sugar intake.

[E.H. Ruddock]

i wonder if dime has any banana facts he'd care to share

Please don’t do this trag. He was triggered by the shit you and numbers up were posting. He’s gone, no need to drag out the needling

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Jorge]

What food has the second-most potassium, after bananas? I want the potassium but I’m watching my sugar intake.

Avocados?

[Sloppy Dupree]

What food has the second-most potassium, after bananas? I want the potassium but I’m watching my sugar intake.

Avocados?

Can’t go wrong with avocados.

[Rangi Guy]

My daughter had recently been telling me that bananas are toxic - something she had recently learned. I'm guessing she had watched something on kid's YouTube. For those of you who might be caught in a similar situation......

Bananas are not toxic. In fact, bananas are one of the most widely consumed and nutritionally safe fruits on the planet.

1) Bananas contain potassium, and people sometimes confuse that with radioactive potassium-40, which is naturally present in tiny, harmless amounts. It’s the same potassium your body needs.

2) You’d have to eat thousands of bananas in one sitting for the potassium (or anything else in them) to even begin to approach toxic levels — which is obviously not possible.

3) The peel isn't toxic either, though it’s usually not eaten because it’s bitter and tough (though edible and used in recipes in some cultures).

I mentioned point #2 to my daughter, and her response was 'See! I told you so!'

[Rangi Guy]

As a bonus - all this banana toxicity reminded me of something I'd heard as a kid - that little black stalk at the bottom of the banan was poisonous - turns out that the black tip is just the remnant of the banana flower — where the fruit originally grew from the blossom. It’s perfectly edible, though a bit tough or bitter, which is probably why people avoid it.

[Rangi Guy]

Bananas Are Technically Radioactive - they contain potassium-40, a naturally occurring isotope. But you'd have to eat 10 million bananas at once to die from radiation.

[knee tunes]

there's a gigantic bug in the bottom of every banana.

Mind you, there are bugs weaving throughout all of the banana but nothing compared to the monster at the bottom

[knee tunes]

i wonder if dime has any banana facts he'd care to share

Please don’t do this trag. He was triggered by the shit you and numbers up were posting. He’s gone, no need to drag out the needling

needling

Spoiler: show

[E.H. Ruddock]

[bodysnatcher]

are there bananas in canada??

[wease]

are there bananas in canada??

Surely not

[Farmer John]

They are considered a delicacy here. I eat one every morning.