To think bananas are evil?

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Those stringy bits on the sides make me shudder, and the texture when it goes all squishy in your mouth, and the little bits at either end 😮

OH MY GOSH, you're the first person I've met who agrees with me!

This'll probably out me if anyone I know is on here, I don't just dislike bananas I actually have a phobia of them, the taste, the smell, the skin, they all make me boak.

I hate them with a passion.

YABU

Yum yum. Although I'm not fond of those stringy bits either.

Apparently (read it on here) if you open them from the 'wrong' end, you don't get the stringy bits.

YANBU I hate bananas with a passion! It's the texture that does it for me too, eugh!

Agree, the only way I can eat them is mashed up with peanut butter on toast!

Vile evil fruit.

I used to love bananas but I haven't eaten one since the banana bug thread!!!

Don't come to my house every evening then, because I will be eating banana and yoghurt as part of my slimming diet !!

YANBU, for all the reasons you describe! They make me feel sick! I have never eaten one except for when I was little and my mum sneaked some into pancake batter I never trusted her pancakes after that.

And for those who say "well if you've never eaten them, how do you know you don't like them?" - it's the texture! Vile. My kids adore them but I have to wash my hands after peeling them. Just...yuck

The monkeys know how to eat them. They are very good for warding off low moods too.
My DD and DH get through about 20 a week!
More summers like this and I could save a small fortune growing my own.

YANBU.

Horrid, horrid things. I can't even be in the same room as someone eating them.

Came on to say what FolkGirl said. That thread had me running screaming from the fruit bowl.

I actually used to feel like this.

For whatever reason I no longer do, and quite enjoy them

They have to be quite firm...and I have to take small bites!

I never know where to look when someone is eating a banana.

Read the title as bandanas not bananas, had to read the first few replies until I cottoned on to what the bloody hell you were talking about.

I love bananas, but hate the stringy bits and the black bit at the end.

bananas are disgusting and so is the banana industry.
not on my shopping list for years now.

I love bananas too. However, a cousin of mine hates them. He had one when he was 6 and had a poo accident in school. He put it down to the banana and has never had one since. I have a friend who loves them completely black before she opens them.

YANBU

DM used to point accusingly at a stain on the sofa. She said that was me chucking mashed banana about instead of eating it. She says I've always hated them.

I think they smell like vomit, I can't stand them.

I love them- one of my favourite foods and I have one everyday.
They contain tryptophan which converts to serotonin which is a happy mood brain neurotransmitter. It is an essential amino acid. That is only one thing they are good for- I am not going to write the rest it would take too long! It is a very cheap, easy and enjoyable way to get it.

Banana bugs ?

Pah, stringy bits.

No such thing if you know how to 'open' a banana properly and like a civilized human being

I say open as they should not be peeled, not if you don't want stringy bits lol

Not a banana-fan.

DH cannot buy them singly - we need one for a lunch box once maybe twice a week. But always end up with a bunch of 5 going over-ripe. I find a whole banana is too much for squishing onto toast, and I get terrible banana burps after eating one. I do try freezing them to make ice-cream, which is OKish. But I'd happily live in a banana-free world.

cozie there was a thread on here months ago where a MNer had picked up a banana to find that it felt a bit 'hollow' in the middle and she wasn't sure whether to peel it or not.

When she eventually opened it, there was a big black bug thing living inside the banana skin that had eaten some of the banana.

Fucking disgusting it was!