Bananas

Well, I always buy bananas but they are not impulse buys, I just like them. so, impulse buys would be a Danish pastry or a big tub of olives or a new shampoo(that I don't need.)

Tea. If there's a new blend going I have to try it. And I quite like a browse down the 'health food' bit too. I would say just for a laugh but actually I'm easily persuaded to try out the new 'in' thing, whatever it is. Trying out chia seeds at the moment (baulked at the price to begin with but they are lasting and are quite tasty).

An impulse buy for me would be a cheese I haven't tried before.

It would be cheese for me too. I have recently discovered Taleggio, it is delicious, and stinky when ripe!

Come the revolution, bananas will be banned, vile things that they are !

Choc chip cookie - no matter how often I tell myself I am NOT going to buy one, as often as not, when I pass the patisserie at Waitrose, somehow a cookie gets into my trolley.

Impulse buy would probably be some sort of blue cheese for me also, or hummus, certainly not bananas absolutely top of my "must haves" I can't live without bananas they are my staple if I get really hungry between meals. I tend not to bulk buy them, I don't like them too ripe there is an optimum time when bananas are at their best, certainly not green and hard or over ripe with black spots on their skin. It's very annoying when supermarkets only have green ones, I find they don't always ripen to right shade of yellow. I spend more time in the supermarket pondering over bananas than any other produce. I could really do with a banana emoticon to express the depth of my feelings!!

oooh I've just seen your anti banana comment phoenix are you some sort of subversive? why do you think these emoticons are yellow in deference to the magnificent glorious yellow food stuff that's why!

Bananas are a 'must have' for me too - absolutely hate running out of them! I buy a big bunch when they're slightly under ripe so they'll last. If some of them get over-ripe, no problems because I have a really fabulous banana loaf recipe. Failing that, my daughter's black lab goes absolutely bananas for bananas! They are without doubt her number one favourite treat, even when revoltingly over-ripe .
My impulse buy would be mangoes or watermelon. Or those delicious Alpro soya desserts - caramel are my favourites, or the dark chocolate.

Anything but bananas! I was a few months old, I am told, when my uncle, who was serving on the Atlantic convoys, came home with a banana for his tiny nephew. I was fed one mouthful, and went into a coma. My mother and he finished it off before taking me to the doctor. Glad they got their priorities right.

Hope you are joking grumppa

It must be months since I had a banana.

I only like them when they're just past green. I keep buying them, but as soon as they go freckly I can't eat them so they languish around waiting for me to do something inventive with them and end up in the bin, I'm afraid! Sorry.

A retired medical scientist informed me that bananas are now thought to prevent - or at least ward off - Alzheimers. But how many times have we heard that about how many food items or drugs?

I almost never buy anything on impulse. Bananas are a regular, I usually eat them with pineapple.

TerriBul I also have an intense dislike of cucumber.

Many years ago, a friend had a secret theory about my banana & cucumber problem. This was obviously bothering her, as one day appropo (sp?) of nothing she asked " phoenix , how do you feel about snakes?" When I replied that i have no problem at all with snakes, she said "That's alright then!"

uk.news.yahoo.com/world-s-deadliest-spider-on-the-loose--aldi-store-forced-to-close-145940736.html#3SszfoE

The worlds deadliest spiders eggs found in a bunch of bananas in Leicestershire. No sign of the spider that laid them though!

Haven't bought a banana for over three years.
However, I noticed in the paper earlier in the week that the average person drinks half a cup of coffee a year in the UK. There must be a lot of people who do not drink coffee.

My impulse buys would be crumpets or fruit scones.
I love bananas, as does hubby, but just lately they don`t seem to keep more than a couple of days. I don`t like them being delivered green though, because they seem to have an even shorter lifespan once ripened. After reading that article though, I`m wondering about buying bananas anymore!

When your bananas get overripe peel them and pop in the freezer-they make lovely healthy ice lollies.

I love bananas and buy them weekly. DGS#2 would live on them if he could.
Impulse buy would be yoghur. Then I get home and decide, no, I don't fancy one after all.

My impulse buy would be dark chocolate.

Always buy bananas but only a few, for eating I like them just past green. If over ripe I bake yummy banana bread. Just pop the over ripe bananas into the freezer till ready to use. When they defrost they're a bit jelly-ish but perfect for baking.

Caramel or fudge doughnuts. Greggs ones are good but not the best. You need good coffee with them.

Before 2000, I remember reading a banana scare: apparently the most popular kind we buy in European and N American shops were going to become extinct within ten years. Aye right.

I truly hate shopping with the exception of buying books and toys. Consequently, I zap round the supermarket as fast as possible with my nose in my shopping list. It almost always includes "fruit" as an item and I often buy bananas as part of that instruction to myself as I quite like one at breakfast time. If they are on "special" – recently 2 large packs of bobby bananas for $5 (about £2.50) – I will take advantage and pass the extra pack on to my daughter because they are useful for lunch boxes. Otherwise, I am not generally seduced by the sight of something that isn't on my list – assuming that I have noticed it in the first place.

An impulse buy for me would be something I have not tried before and is 'new', to the market, provided of course it was not made of or with something I did not like. Love bananas, bananas with condensed milk or in a sandwich with brown sugar. With Custard, on my cereals, on their own.