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Bananaphobes
Robin S - it's the texture thing
AJW - You have another fellow hater in Stanmore. Are you
keeping a list?
Fenny - It's the texture that I don't like most. I don't
much like the taste either, although I have been known to eat
slices of banana on a curry.
Heather Knowles - they make me throw up
Somewhere unspecified in the middle...
Jamie Armstrong - Arrgghh!! You're all banana obsessed!
Bananaphiles
Jane Vernon - bananas should be just turned from
the green, IMO. Fried bananas are delicious too, but the only
dish I know they go with consists almost entirely of fried foods
so I've rarely had it. I don't know if it's authentic 'southern'
or not but it is fried chicken with sweetcorn fritters and fried
bananas.
Pauline Young - don't like them till they have black
spots.
Kimbo - I love 'em all. Short, long, fat, thin, green,
brown, spotty, cooked, raw, whatever -- bring 'em on!
Penny Mayes - Well I prefer them green around the gills,
otherwise they must be mashed with brown sugar and cream. Cooked
is very good too, with or without custard.
Mary Gentle - I'm bewildered by how many nice people can
be such heretics as not to like bananas...
Robin F - just ignore them, mary ... it's the only way.
Paul Herber - mashed with evaporated milk
Chris McMillan - 'firm as they come'
Emma McGlade - Cooked on a barbie, with the skin split and
a generous helping of some alcoholic spirit poured inside -
double yum!
Tim Hall - Similarly on a barbie (charcoal outdoor
cooking, not plastic product from Mattel) make a knife slit, put
in suitable length of chocolate - C@dburys Flake is a good start-
wrap in foil and sling into the dying embers.
Sandy Brown - Banana fritters in syrup from the local
chinese take away yum yum
Marjorie Clarke - Fried banana with bacon makes a great
sandwich. Yum.
Rosemary Miskin - Sliced in half lengthwise, sprinkled
with brown sugar and maybe a little rum and baked for 30 mins or
so in a hot oven. Bliss, especially with a dollop of /good/
vanilla icecream.
Al Menzies - No, no, no, no. Bananas and custard is manna
from heaven. I can remember going back for thirdsies at Junior
school. Yum yum. And banana on toast is a particularly prized
delicacy in this household (the banana itself is raw, not
toasted)
Jo Lonergan - My favourite, but the banana has to be well
squashed, and eaten while the toast is still warm.
Helen Brace - Husbad bought me a rather nice jar of preserved bananas for this specific
use! I've tried it on hot buttered toast and it was scrummy.
Marjorie Clarke, again - Try this: mash the banana on to
the toast and then sprinkle it with a little brown sugar mixed
with cinnamon. Then grill it for a few minutes. I had almost
forgotten this myself. My brother and I used to make it as
children. We called it Banana Boke (we lived in N Ireland at the
time, and boke means vomit, which is what it looks like. But it
tastes fab.
Simon Townley - Custard, no. But banana with vanilla
yoghurt ... well it's not manna from heaven, it's manna from
Sainsbury, but sure, it's the food of life itself. Banana
sandwiches were a delicacy when I was younger, second only to
sultana sandwiches ... Kensington Gardens, before a Prom concert
... happy days ...
Chris Dixon - I'll see your banana and raise you cinnamon with Greek yogurt.
Al Menzies - OK. I'll see your yogurt, and raise you a banana with a rhubarb yogurt.
Peter Hesketh - Our kids (including me) used to love a cocktail consisting of half a
banana, a heaped desertsp of sugar and half a pint of milk shoved in the blender for 2 minutes.
Penny -
Even better is a whole banana and a large scoop of ice-cream, topped up to half a pint with milk and then whizzed. Add a raw egg and it is a great meal for anyone with a seriously sore throat!
Weevil -
Three or four old bananas that are going brown, brown sugar to taste,
double cream and brandy, whizzed, now there's ambrosia at the end of a hard day, though. Add blue food dye and the kids won't touch it because they think it looks poisonous. Tee, hee. *hic*
Chris Harrison -
Bananas, milk, ice cream, tsp of vanilla essence, dollop of blueberry
syrup for that same purple slurge effect ... Swap strawberries for bananas and maple syrup for blueberry and it works well too. (Only it doesn't go purple.) In fact, maple syrup goes well
with bananas too.
btms - ......banana slices (dipped in lemon juice to keep them white and provide a little edge) with chunks of a sweet ripe melon placed in a straight-sided dish (soufflé) then marinated in rum for two/three hours. Just before serving top with generous quantity of chilled double cream (substitute virtually fat free fromage frais for squeamish) cover cream with generous quantity of soft brown sugar (sorry no substitute for this) and say a heaped tsp. ginger (optional). Place under a hot grill until you are really sure you have left it there too long and viola! Banana and Melon Burl.
Michelle Holcroft The unpeeled-yet-already-sliced-banana trick.
Take a banana and a long thin needle. Insert needle into the side of banana until it almost, but not quite, emerges from the opposite side. Wiggle the needle from side to side to cut through the fruit, but take great care to leave the skin intact. Repeat at regular intervals down the length of the banana. Replace in fruit bowl, and wait for your victim to unpeel the banana, which promptly collapses into their lap.
Marjorie Clarke - Me, I had a bacon-and-banana sandwich for lunch. Yum.