Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Bananas

Worker finds rare "double banana". This begs the question, what do they call a "married banana"?:confused:
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You WIN, Pappy!:D:cool::eek:nthego::love_heart::):playful:
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Claim: Bananas on a fishing boat are unlucky.
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Origins: We can’t say how far back this superstition goes, but at least among sport fishermen there exists a belief that bananas on a boat are unlucky.
The sea offers plenty of opportunities for turns of ill luck. Fishing boats run aground or become lost. Mechanical failures result in boats floating helplessly adrift. Crew members become deathly sick from mysterious illnesses. Foul weather sweeps in. Any and all of these have been at various times attributed to bad luck.
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While the superstitions involving fishermen and their boats are almost too numerous to mention, one particular entry in that category appears to attach almost solely to those who engage in sport (rather than commercial) fishing.
Bananas are deemed unlucky by recreational fishermen and those catering to that trade. Usually this rumor takes the form of the fish not biting on the day when bananas were discovered onboard, but mechanical breakdowns and other mishaps are also pointed to.

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Some in the fishing charters business extend their distaste for the fruit to include not only banana ingestibles (fresh or dried chips of banana, banana muffins, plus anything banana flavored) but even to items bearing the word “banana” or anything evocative of it, such as Fruit of the Loom underwear, Banana Republic apparel, and Banana Boat sunscreen. (The prohibition against Fruit of the Loom underthings is particularly baffling because that clothier’s logo depicts an apple, leaves, green grapes, currants, and purple grapes, with nary a banana in sight.)

More at https://www.snopes.com/luck/superstition/bananas.asp
 
RadishRose said:
Claim: Bananas on a fishing boat are unlucky.
legend.gif
LEGEND
Origins: We can’t say how far back this superstition goes, but at least among sport fishermen there exists a belief that bananas on a boat are unlucky.
The sea offers plenty of opportunities for turns of ill luck. Fishing boats run aground or become lost. Mechanical failures result in boats floating helplessly adrift. Crew members become deathly sick from mysterious illnesses. Foul weather sweeps in. Any and all of these have been at various times attributed to bad luck.
banana.gif

While the superstitions involving fishermen and their boats are almost too numerous to mention, one particular entry in that category appears to attach almost solely to those who engage in sport (rather than commercial) fishing.
Bananas are deemed unlucky by recreational fishermen and those catering to that trade. Usually this rumor takes the form of the fish not biting on the day when bananas were discovered onboard, but mechanical breakdowns and other mishaps are also pointed to.

Banana


Some in the fishing charters business extend their distaste for the fruit to include not only banana ingestibles (fresh or dried chips of banana, banana muffins, plus anything banana flavored) but even to items bearing the word “banana” or anything evocative of it, such as Fruit of the Loom underwear, Banana Republic apparel, and Banana Boat sunscreen. (The prohibition against Fruit of the Loom underthings is particularly baffling because that clothier’s logo depicts an apple, leaves, green grapes, currants, and purple grapes, with nary a banana in sight.)

More at https://www.snopes.com/luck/superstition/bananas.asp
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....picked up a cupple of "The Cat Who" books by Lilian Jackson Braun at a booksale yesterday. This is one of the bunch!

"Qwilleran has been to the doctor and told to change his diet, mainly by adding bananas. He discovers that both Koko and YumYum are interested in the peels and drag them all over his house, sometimes leaving them in very inopportune places". (reviews are not encouraging)

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I like bananas but the store I shop stocks those huge genetically modified yellow bananas that are the size of a baseball bat.

I tried the small red skinned bananas, they are good & sweet, but are difficult to identify whether they are ripe or not. If they are not ripe when you buy them, they don't rippen but instead stay hard until they go bad. :(
 
neotheone said:
I like bananas but the store I shop stocks those huge genetically modified yellow bananas that are the size of a baseball bat.

I tried the small red skinned bananas, they are good & sweet, but are difficult to identify whether they are ripe or not. If they are not ripe when you buy them, they don't rippen but instead stay hard until they go bad. :(
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From your Wiki link, they sound delicious!
"When ripe, raw red bananas have a flesh that is cream to light pink in color. They are also softer and sweeter than the yellow Cavendish varieties, some with a slight mango flavour, others with an earthy flavour."
 
RadishRose said:
From your Wiki link, they sound delicious!
"When ripe, raw red bananas have a flesh that is cream to light pink in color. They are also softer and sweeter than the yellow Cavendish varieties, some with a slight mango flavour, others with an earthy flavour."
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The red bananas are delicious, but like I mentioned, a person has to examine them closely at the store, or be disappointed.

There is a video on "how to" select red bananas....

 
Hoosier Hotshots - I Like Bananas (because they have no bones)
"A 1940's 8 mm film promoting Bananas. The Hoosier Hotshots recorded this song in 1941. Castle Films made the Film for Chiquita."

 
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