The leaves are turning
yellow, like Bananas and
Cheddar and Sunshine.
yellow, like Bananas and
Cheddar and Sunshine.
I like bananas. I like them chopped on cereal; I like them dropped in my handbag; I like them dipped in custard. I like banoffee pie; banana milkshake and banana cake. I like peeling away the skin like it's a present and eating it as if I were a monkey. I like the fact that they are yellow, since so few foods are and it contrasts nicely with my predilection for purple clothes and accessories. I like candles that are shaped like bananas and I have longed to receive a naked banana in the post.
Originally, the thought was that I would turn a banal blab about bananas into a metaphor for something else - I don't consciously consider these ridiculous comparisons, they just tend to come to me. So while I'm automatically mentally mind-mapping possibilities for bananalogies, I conjure up all kinds of images. Talk and thoughts of the phallic fruit, rather than sending me into the imaginary world of metaphor - something to do with pick of the bunch; judging a fruit by its skin; patience to allow for ripening; going bananas? - instead throws me a trip down memory lane, full of banana fritters in Chinese buffets; banana chips in America; freezing bananas in the lab; bananas at breakfast. Have you ever tried the peeling a sliced banana trick? I've always wanted to see if that works.
An additional internet search for a suitable simile offers not much more than the health properties of bananas - latest news is B vitamins also stave off Alzheimer's disease, so you know, get munching to save your memory. Bananas help hangovers as they calm the stomach and provide natural sugars to build up your depleted blood sugar levels. Finally, the tryptophan in them helps the body to produce serotonin, which means that bananas make you happier and that's a FACT.
So. Have a banana!
You've taken away the anon option! What. And I was going to use 'Uncle Algeranonymous' this time around to boot.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the banana blog. I'm a little scared that you'd love to receive a naked banana in the post, but then I suppose who wouldn't? Perhaps deep down we'd all like that and you're admitting it. Brave.
I tend to avoid bananas in actual meals, for the main. I used to love them as a child cut up and sprinkled with sugar... Go figure. Nowadays I rarely have 'em but if I do they have to be soft. I don't just consume any hard banana, y'know. I've actually come back and edited what I wrote, because it was too much. Eek.
I wouldn't know about bananas and hangovers because I'm too sweet to drink too much. I prefer studying Shakespeare and sipping my innocent pure fruit smoothie.
I listened to Sunchyme just the other day.
Bravo on the blog, and if that means you're open to suggestions I'm sure I have a few...
I do enjoy a good banana. But I absolutely hate it when they're squishy and black and horrible and the fear that I'm going to encounter the squishy black horribleness means that I tend not to indulge that much.
ReplyDeleteThe mushiness is also why I do not enjoy wrapping them in tin foil and sticking them on a bbq.
Now I feel sad because I only have an apple at my desk. Sad face.
YAYblog!
ReplyDeleteBananananas with every breakfast for me. Yumtimes.
Thanks to ending on "Have a banana!" all I can think of is Bill Bailey's lessons on cockney music.
Nice new backdrop, but yes, new comment options means no more name/url so I have to appear as sufficeblog. I don't like that. Curse the sod who registered then stopped using suffice as a wordpress!
I want a nice icon avatar. sniffle.
But I am happy for there are more words from Flix, and I can make jokes about her feeling fruity.
Ah-hey ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-na-ya
Hey ma ma ma, hey-ay-ay-ay, ah
I took away the Anonymous option because I like knowing where my comments come from and if everyone gave their name (or a recurrent alias, if preferred) I'd happily leave it there. Curse the sod who continued to comment as Anon even when specifically requested not to! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's quite minor but the lack of personalised avatar is annoying! Anyone know how to get round it?
ReplyDelete@ suffice: Get a google account? ;)
ReplyDelete@ Adam: the naked banana comment was in reference to something specific, unfortunately, the explanatory link is no longer valid. For shame.
I use to refuse to go anywhere near bananas. The smell, the taste, pretty much everything about them repulsed me. I'll eat them now, but only if they don't have black bits on them - should I see a squishy banana I'm gone. Banana flavoured stuff is foul...
ReplyDeleteI added in the explanatory link for naked bananas (it's completely PG, so fear not for your eyes...) Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI do love Sunchyme.
@The Girl: upon re-readage, I love the reinforcement of the "I feel sad" statement by the "sadface" addendum :P Barbeque bananas are the best + vanilla ice-cream + summer's evening + pimm's, kthx.
@hannah: woman-up! Bananas FTW! Though banana flavoured stuff that isn't actually proper banana stuff (like banana sweets or artificial banana milk) is the yuck.