to think that bananas are the work of the devil?

[BananasAreEvil]

They are conniving and devious, particularly in the way they present themselves all clean, smooth and blemish free only to be presented with a smelly, squashy, brownish, unsightly and minging flesh when peeled?
I hate them.

Someone once told me that monkeys eat bananas sideways. Is this true?

No, it's upside down

My DD1 would wholeheartedly agree with you. I thought she wouldn't progress to mashed from pureed food 16 yrs ago, turns out she just hates bananas.
I however quite like them just before they go soft, mashed onto toast for breakfast.

There is a window of precisely 17 seconds when a banana is edible. That is a FACT. :)

BananasAreEvil, there is the converse where you are presented with a brown and ugly skin only to find a smooth, perfect inner.

I personally think that bananas suffer from multiple personality disorders as opposed to being works of the devil.

Oh yes bananas are truely horrid

Numberfour, sure they display some of the traditional symptoms, I just happen to believe they do not have a personality, never mind multiple...

Bananas are a herb

YABU. Bananas are well behaved as long as you never try to make one leave home. Put one in a lunchbox or bag and they start to self-destruct.

I agree with Gwendoline - turn your back on a banana and it goes from green to black in exactly 17 seconds .

They don't do it when you're watching them though, oh no.

Is there a word for a banana phobic? If there is I am definitely one. I hate the way they make everything else taste of banana and the horrible stringy bits that just hang off the peel and the peel itself and bruised slimey ones. My little sister used to chase me round the house with them. yuck.

Gently fried in a little butter & brown sugar, flambeed with rum, served hot with good vanilla ice cream. THAT'S the way to eat bananas

ShatnersBassoon, yes! And what about forgotten in a hot car???

The plant a banana grows on is a herb, but we eat the fruit of the plant.

Bananaphobia

They are indeed a horrid fruit. Particularly nasty when manhandled by someone else's toddler - I have a strong stomach and can cope with most forms of small-child detritus (even though DD is 7 so those days are mostly behind us) but a toddlered banana is a thing of horror.

YANBU

I like my fruit to have juice. It's not a big ask really

I can't bear them. And why does every smoothie in the world reek of them? If I want a Very Berry or whatever smoothie, why is the top ingredient banana?
Why have they corrupted lovely toffee pie with banana?
They emit nitrogen, you know.

Thank you.

They can be evil. They cause migraines and sometimes have little spiders in them (which you don't discover until you've eaten almost the whole thing).

However, banana tarte tatin is the quickest, easiest, most impressive pud I one can make so YABU.

YANBU
They are the work of the devil.
They make me heave at the thought of them and have never had a smoothie because of them.
And whats the stringy bit all about?
Urgh.

YANBU

Howver, they are nice in cake or pudding type thing.

No, no, no!!! You people saying that bananas are okay as part of a pudding or something else are just trying to wind me up!! That's even worse because they spoil otherwise perfectly reasonable ingredients. Their presence is offensive!! Tell you waht though, I can toletate artificual banana flavour, e.g. artificially flavoured banana yogurt, sweets, bubble gum and the like...

There are two Innocent smoothies that have no banana in them - but I've not tried them so can't assure you that they're completely untainted by the evil fruit. I half think I'd be able to taste banana anyway cos I associated smoothies so strongly with them.

DontCallMeBaby you are so right!! Banana+Toddler=fetid putrid snot covered evil mash

DontCallMeBaby, I can vouch for the Kiwi one. I would know as soon as I opened it whether it had been anywhere near a banana. They're safe...