Banana poisoning! Does it exist??

I have weetabix and a banana for breakfast most days, does help with leg cramps as I can tell if I have missed my daily banana.

They make a lovely cake when they have gone mushy and you can freeze them like that until you want to use them - apparently - that's if you can stand to touch them - yeuk. You'd best wash your hands after too.

Banana loaf is lovely and uses all those past their best bananas up, always tastes better the day after its baked if it last that long.

cari talking about cake where has the James Martin thread gone from the top of the threads, I thought they stayed up there until the web chat was over?

My Gransnet name is partly down to the fact that I love bananas, I eat at least one every day, usually for breakfast, sometimes I will eat another two during the course of the day, but they mustn't be too ripe. What a sad world it would be without bananas !

Bananas are a very useful fruit! I had a banana sandwich for lunch,,squishy banana mashed onto a slice of buttered brown bread..naughty but nice!

Oh, I forgot, I had pears instead of a banana for breakfast (sorry, couldn't lay my hands on any nitrous oxide). Now I am going to have my daily banana with my redbush tea.

Nanae Yes yes yes, mashed banana on wholemeal bread (but no butter for me!) way to go. But mashed banana may look like old, blackened banana but in texture and taste they are entirely different. Mashed = delicious, blackened = gross. I think there's some complicated food biochemistry at work here. C'mon there bust be a retired school chemistry teacher on here (sorry, chemistry was always my most impenetrable subject at school) who can tell us why mashed banana is soooo exquisite!

And a psychology teacher who can explain why playing withe the underline, bold and italic features here has been such fun! Answer: Because I can!

I never use the underline feature, but I love the 'strike through' and bold ones. And I'm far too fond of exclamation marks! Have I got a serious problem?

isthis I can just see that busty retired chemistry teacher expounding on the texture attraction of mashed banana.

There's something sensual about munching into mashed banana on good wholemeal bread.

annodomini, sensuous and virtuous, a rare combination!

Yes! I can't stand being in the same room as someone who is eating a banana. Can't even eat them disguised in a cake and slipping sliced bananas into a trifle.... YUK

They will put dried bananas into Fruit and Fibre. They are OK dry, but once you put on milk or fruit juice they go all slimy. Yeugh.

Dried bananas = work of the devil. Horrible! imho.

I quite like dried bananas. First came across them as a kid because my gran lived next door to a Jamaican who, during WW2 when it was impossible to get fresh bananas in the UK, had dried ones delivered from her rellies in Jamaica. Not dried banana flakes, which I'm not fond of, but whole dried bananas. But, yes, I'd just eat them as is, not with milk poured over them.

anno, that combination of wholemeal bread and mashed banana is even better with peanut butter between the bread and the banana. Butter too. No, I don't care about the fat content. Food fat is food in my book.

Banana poisoning - not sure, but they a seem to not like me!

Loved banana as a kid (specially bananas and custard) when suddenly in my late 20's had an extreme reaction, thought I was going to die. Could not breath, doubled up in pain.

Thought it was a one off and after a few months tried again. The reaction was even worse.

Subsequently found that even if I removed banana from a dish (trifle or the like) still had a bad reaction so have had to stay clear. Have not tried for about 34 years and am still to scared.

DH was a little boy during the war when there was hardly any imported fruit, and when the local shop had finally had some bananas delivered DH was given one by the shopkeeper who told him, "You can only have one, because if you have any more, you'll die!" It stopped him carping on about having more of them. Now and again he enjoys a firm one, though ! Personally, I prefer mine spotty !

Pennysue me too altho' my reaction is not so extreme and just involves a sprint to the loo ( apologies to GNs of a sensitive nature).

pennysue, that's scary! Has the culprit chemical that you react so badly to been isolated?

Wholemeal bread, peanut butter, and a smear of honey.

I used to have a recipe for "turd cakes" - mostly crunchy peanut butter, cocoa and syrup. If I can find it I will post it - but it came from the net so you could find it by Googling. Looked revolting but was very good.

Oldgreymare YUK !!

Bags - all I got from the Doctor at the time (over 30 years ago) was "well do not eat bananas!