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to think that bananas are the work of the devil?

25 replies

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 13:27

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.

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MikeOxstiff · 12/04/2011 13:28

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

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 13:31

No, it's upside down

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fiveisanawfullybignumber · 12/04/2011 13:31

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.Grin

GwendolineMaryLacey · 12/04/2011 13:32

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

Numberfour · 12/04/2011 13:33

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.

cazzybabs · 12/04/2011 13:34

Oh yes bananas are truely horrid

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 13:35

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

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MikeOxstiff · 12/04/2011 13:37

Bananas are a herb

ShatnersBassoon · 12/04/2011 13:37

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.

Salmotrutta · 12/04/2011 13:37

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

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

roundandroundincircles · 12/04/2011 13:37

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.

iklboo · 12/04/2011 13:38

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 Grin

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 13:39

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

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ShatnersBassoon · 12/04/2011 13:39

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

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 13:40

Bananaphobia

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DontCallMeBaby · 12/04/2011 13:45

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.

GreenEyesandHam · 12/04/2011 13:45

YANBU

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

StickyProblem · 12/04/2011 13:53

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.

Quenelle · 12/04/2011 13:56

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.

BubblesMyBubbles · 12/04/2011 14:00

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.

TheCrackFox · 12/04/2011 14:01

YANBU

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

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 14:26

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...

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DontCallMeBaby · 12/04/2011 14:27

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.

BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 14:29

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

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BananasAreEvil · 12/04/2011 14:30

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...

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