Banana poisoning! Does it exist??

Elegran

Elegran, I found this on the net and if it doesn't put anyone off, nothing will...

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/40-turd-cakes

Penny sue. Sounds like me and eggs!

anno The turd cakes were not as bad as that. Rather like chocolate Krispy cakes but with chunks of peanut instead of Rice Krispies.

Apparently the family of the person who sent in the recipe had named them.

I thought they were rather good, but the I like chunky peanut butter.

Still looking for the recipe. I think I have lost it, will have a Google.

My DD once had a boyfriend who was frightened of bananas. He couldn't touch them and ducked out of the way if they were passed in front of him. He was a strapping lad. It was most peculiar.

My DGS is frightened of milk. All dairy products in fact. Except ice cream which he eats in vast quantities. And he will make an exception for cream in banoffee pie.

I'm still smiling days later at Granny23's liking for a firm one. I'm tempted to reply "That's fine. But how do you like your bananas?" But that would be vulgar wouldn't it. Though after that horrible page of turd cakes, nothing much seems vulgar!

re Dried Bananas, yes it is those hard, brittle flakes I can't stand, they taste sweetened too or maybe it's the concentration of the natural sugars that makes them seem that way.

The slightly softer, slightly chewy whole dried bananas though are, I agree, delicious. I think I used to buy them from Traidcraft by post. Does anyone know a shop that stocks them?

If banana poisoning was a possibility i should be dead :-))
one banana one crusty cob to be eaten between the hour of 12-30 and 1-30 nearly every day for goodness how long ( god i'm so boring )

As a child of nine, I had my first banana for years at the end of the war. I promptly came out in a rash and couldn't go to school. Very uncomfortable. Never had that reaction again.

I have heard that as bananas become over ripe, they do become fattening.

I doubt that they become more fattening, but the starch in the less ripe banana converts to sugar as it ripens. It still keeps the same calorific value.

I had to dial 999 for an ambulance last week and Hub was taken to hospital. It seems he wasn't eating his daily banana. He'd been put on medication that lowered his potassium levels and on the prescription was written "eat a banana a day". He didn't as he thought it was them that were giving him constipation. His potassium level dropped dangerously and he collapsed, all for the want of a banana. They've now stopped that prescription and he's on a potassium supplement + banana.
It's the simple things in life that mean so much.

annodomini The small intestine cannot digest the starch in unripe bananas. That's the reason that eating them tends to cause flatulence.

tmi!