Banana

[Cunobelin]

JThe girls are singing in the sleeper car and one is eating a banana!

I once knew a young lady who could make eating a banana "very interesting"

[Cunobelin]

In reality you should carry a range of bananas to suit your energy needs.

Green / yellow bananas have long polysaccharide chains that take time to break down when eaten, and hence the "energy value" is delayed.

Brown / black bananas have shorter polysaccharide chains to to the ripening process. As a result the "energy value" will be delivered more quickly

[Bonefishblues]

Make the most of them, the bananas we know and love may be headed for extinction.
The Cavendish variety, which is the standard version we eat in this country and other western nations may be wiped out by disease in the coming decade or so, due to their lack of genetic variation. They are all essentially clones.

We shall just have to get used to other varieties then. It's a shame that virtually all bananas sold in UK are of the threatened Cavendish variety.

Having read a bit of background, I note that up until the 1950s, a variety called Gros Michel was the dominant one sold in the West. But it succumbed to disease and was replaced by the Cavendish. Since then, it seems a disease-resistant strain of Gros Michel has been developed so perhaps it could make a comeback. Apparently its flavour is slightly different than the Cavendish, but I'm not old enough to remember.

Banana plants are quite easy to grow in much of Europe - including warmer and more sheltered spots in the British Isles. It's getting them to fruit in temperate climates that is the difficulty. But with global warming - who knows?

I like the sound of a Big Mike 'nana. Seemingly not the only Cavendish that's had its day.

[Bonefishblues]

JThe girls are singing in the sleeper car and one is eating a banana!

I once knew a young lady who could make eating a banana "very interesting"

What's the second verse?

[Mick F]

Limerick?

There once was a lady who ate a banana,
Her husband once ate one as well,
They ate them in haste
As well as fish paste

????

[Cunobelin]

JThe girls are singing in the sleeper car and one is eating a banana!

I once knew a young lady who could make eating a banana "very interesting"

What's the second verse?

Limerick?

There once was a lady who ate a banana,
Her husband once ate one as well,
They ate them in haste
As well as fish paste

????

T'is a family forum.......

[Cunobelin]

Bananas are also a scientific unit!!

I work with radiation, so it appealed to me when Glasgow University brought out the Banana Equivalent Dose to allow people to assess radiation risk

The original was quite complex:



But others have used it to explain other events in a graphic way>

[Mick F]

There was a young man from Trelee
Who was stung on the arm by a wasp
When asked if it hurt
He said, "No, but I'm glad that it wasn't a hornet."

[rjb]

Bananas are also a scientific unit!!

I work with radiation, so it appealed to me when Glasgow University brought out the Banana Equivalent Dose to allow people to assess radiation risk

The original was quite complex:



But others have used it to explain other events in a graphic way>

So what's my dose after riding my Banana bike for a year.

[landsurfer]

SO .. On the way to work each morning I eat a Banana.
At the same road sign on a country lane i eject the banana skin to the port side of the vehicle.
I have been doing this for over 4 years.
I suspect i have created a micro environment which favours flora and fauna that succeeds in a banana skin laden environment.
One day i will stop and survey my "Empire of the Banana" ....
Or as my grandson calls it ....... Littering !!!
Kids today .... no vision !!

[landsurfer]

In reality you should carry a range of bananas to suit your energy needs.

Green / yellow bananas have long polysaccharide chains that take time to break down when eaten, and hence the "energy value" is delayed.

Brown / black bananas have shorter polysaccharide chains to to the ripening process. As a result the "energy value" will be delivered more quickly

Yea but i hate black bananas .... they taste so sweet ..... oh! yes, i see what you mean ..... Doh !

[Bonefishblues]

I once knew a young lady who could make eating a banana "very interesting"

What's the second verse?

Limerick?

There once was a lady who ate a banana,
Her husband once ate one as well,
They ate them in haste
As well as fish paste

????

T'is a family forum.......

Well that doesn't scan at all!

For which we're all very grateful

[softlips]

SO .. On the way to work each morning I eat a Banana.
At the same road sign on a country lane i eject the banana skin to the port side of the vehicle.
I have been doing this for over 4 years.
I suspect i have created a micro environment which favours flora and fauna that succeeds in a banana skin laden environment.
One day i will stop and survey my "Empire of the Banana" ....
Or as my grandson calls it ....... Littering !!!
Kids today .... no vision !!

Banana skins shouldn’t be discarded of this way, it’s littering. They take years to decomposed I recently discovered. I did the three peaks a few months again and our guide showed us a banana skin that had been out in the wild over two years, it was very black but completely intact.

[rjb]

I worked for 30 years in a nuclear power station. When i retired i had been exposed to an accumulated occupational dose of 15.6 mSv. this equates to 15 bananas a day. Yum Yum

[JohnW]

Make the most of them, the bananas we know and love may be headed for extinction..................

Thanks for cheering us up alex.