Several years ago, a friend gave me a lovely pottery banana bowl he had made. It has been regularly stocked with bananas ever since. Before that, I always just set my bananas on the counter next to the toaster.
A week ago, I got a bunch of six bananas and set them in the bowl to ripen. I ate three of them on successive mornings with peanut butter toast for breakfast. On the fourth day, while waiting for the toast to pop up, I grabbed a banana and peeled it. When I tried to break it in half, it bent like a rubber hose. "Huh," I said and grabbed another banana. Same thing, and again with the third one. I was not inclined to eat them and threw them out--although I must admit I momentarily considered making banana bread with them.
In all my life, I've never before found a rubbery banana so I was curious. I googled "rubbery banana" and learned that there are several scientific studies into what causes it, but nobody knows for sure. What I find most puzzling is that the first three bananas in the bunch were fine but the last three were not. Go figure!
Has anybody else had this happen?
4 comments:
Wow, never heard of anything like that!
I've never heard of rubbery bananas, but here are two articles on what it takes to have bananas in our stores:
http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2010-10-05/color-dedication
http://www.equalexchange.coop/join-the-banana-revolution
Not me. I quit eating bananas years ago when I finally realized they hadn't been good for a long time. (And subsequently found out that they really were a whole different variety than we all used to have.) I actually had to stop and give myself permission to not buy bananas. I think it took me a similar amount of time to realize I didn't like pot, but that's a whole 'nother story.
Just peeled a banana and it was like rubber....What is this.
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