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. I have three in the fruit bowl that were to be made into banana pudding this afternoon prior to the shopping coming this evening and new bananas arriving.

I wonder if it's safe to go into the kitchen now.

Yanbu for all your reasons and the fact I got crippling, bent over double stomach cramps when I used to eat them.

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am going to check the weight of every banana from now on!

btw i buy up loads of blackening bananas for cakes and milkshakes ....yum

and if you split open rather than peel you don't get strings/black bits

so ywbu until bugs were introduced into the equation

I hate them, I want to like them but I just can't.
DH and DC practically live on them, I hate finding the weird banana strings around when the little ones have been eating them.
Just talking about them has made me claw my hands!

YANBU they stink to high heaven and turn into black sticky mush when the lovely children wipe their scummy banana hands everywhere! Gads.

YANBU, I hate the feeling of them, the texture, the smell, just everything.

DH eats them though I have threatened divorce if he leaves the skin and the stringy bits on a plate for me to clear away the horror!

ANormalOne - that banana phobia is either fairly common, or you and I are good mates...

So this is where we fellow bananaphobics can gather! Finally a banana free zone

They are extremely disgusting. I stopped eating them when my brother was young and ate them without closing his mouth... Then my Dad made it worse by telling my how if you step on a ripe one it will come out through your toes.

Writing this has just made me boak a little

There wasn't any photos supporting the banana bug though, was there?

I love bananas, practically live on them.

I don't like them, it is mostly the texture. When I took up eating 1 a day for Lent years ago I found that the ones with the right texture for me eat without throwing up made my teeth feel funny, as if they were coated in something.

I'm all for banana milkshakes though.

I don't eat a lot of fruit, but love my daily banana with my breakfast.

I even have a mental playlist of narner songs. My favourite being "Hush".

I was thinking about bananas this morning. We are currently going through 15 a week (2 adults, 1 toddler). And they are cheap. Got 8 big ones for less than £1.50 today. Therefore I think bananas are great. Healthy too. DS would rather snack on a banana than a sweetie.

Bananas are lovely fried in butter and orange juice and brandy

Lovely to see you Sarah

YANBU. I've never been able to bring myself to actually eat one. They are disgusting. I hate the smell and seeing other people eat them. I think I have a phobia of them.

Jolly we can go through 40 a week (DH, and 4 DC), more if DH makes Banoffi pie, banana milkshakes or we have pancakes!

Oooooo Loki interesting.

Nasty. Nasty. Nasty.

Fruit should be crunchy and/or juicy. Bananas are neither.

And they make my teeth feel fuzzy.

Nasty.

We (DD2 and I) get through 4 large bunches a week. Easily 20-30 bananas. Yum, yum, yum.

My DS loves bananas. I get regular 'nana nana' requests. We have to limit them else he'd eat them all the time and it's not good to eat too many!

bananas here

DS loves bananas to the point where he gets hysterical if he sees them and cant eat them.
they are great though, as he can be fobbed off with one when he demands sweets/chocolate/ice cream

I hate them too. Never comes across so many people in one place who detest them before. DS also hates them - DH blames me for influencing him.
It is just the texture I can't abide. I am quite happy to eat something banana flavoured - although that probably tastes nothing like real bananas.
I remember DS doing fruit tasting in the infants. I had filled in the consent form to say he could eat everything, but wrote on it that DS will not eat bananas. Bloody teacher made him try some - and DS promptly threw up. School rang me to collect him as they thought he had a tummy bug. It was only when I got him home that I got the full story off DS, I was . I made a point of telling the teacher when I sent him back the next day.
Bought some bananas in Tesco the other day for DH. They were "Eat Me" Bananas - I mean what the hell else are they for? don't answer that question

I love them with evap. milk and ice cream for my pudding!