never put your banana in the refrigerator

reesetee *alights on nearby branch*

*disappears* Mar 13, 2012

ruzuzu I've just added Non-Cavendish Banana Tossing to the panel-discussions-at-wordienikon list. Mar 12, 2012

yarb I can confirm that I have not been pelted with any bananas lately - at least not any of a ruddy hue. Mar 12, 2012

Prolagus Oh, I forgot! Mar 12, 2012

ruzuzu Funny! Did you try throwing them at yarb? Mar 12, 2012

Prolagus Did I ever tell you that I found bilby's reddish bananas at the food coop where I volunteer? They are ok, firmer indeed, and less obviously sweet – or maybe just as sweet, only there's something else I can't quite describe. Mar 12, 2012

ruzuzu Ah, spring. The cranes and geese are migrating through the unritzy states again--I wonder whether there will be any reesetee sightings.

*fumbles around for notebook* Mar 12, 2012

bilby Hey cuz, what's with the tiny ears? Sep 12, 2010

fbharjo also never put your banana bat in the refrigerator.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT2b3LqMO3Ri71gLbVtVGZuHXmjuXrsRYQYCAyq_yzyhttvm3U&t=1&usg=__ppeDN8iKlmT9QiYdPZDV83qYrwc="> Sep 12, 2010

ruzuzu *peeks out from behind a banana leaf* Sep 12, 2010

ruzuzu *flees, cawing* Sep 8, 2010

ruzuzu *gets too close to one of the tarantulas* Sep 8, 2010

ruzuzu *reviews St. Crispin's Day speech* Sep 8, 2010

ruzuzu *reviews footing* Sep 8, 2010

ruzuzu *reviews footage* Sep 8, 2010

ruzuzu Don't point the camera at me, you lunkheads! You're supposed to be filming the secretive reesetee! Sep 7, 2010

ruzuzu A-ha! *whips around quickly, then stumbles over notebook* Sep 7, 2010

reesetee *calls distinctively*

AAAGH! AAAGH!

*flees, cawing* Sep 7, 2010

ruzuzu Okay, fine. Whatever. *cues chirping crickets, puts down notebook, and walks away--slowly* Sep 7, 2010

ruzuzu *more insistent* Over there, behind the banana bunch. Sep 7, 2010

ruzuzu *clears throat* Sep 7, 2010

ruzuzu *innocently* Oh look! Are those sprinkles or jimmies? Sep 7, 2010

ruzuzu *warns film crew to get ready, then sends message to spider crew to release another tarantula* Sep 7, 2010

chained_bear *makes scholarly notes about the reesetee's ability to pixillate itself* May 4, 2010

reesetee *flees, cawing* May 4, 2010

ruzuzu *makes another reesetee sighting, scribbles more notes* May 4, 2010

reesetee *blurs self so oroboros can't spot me* Mar 24, 2010

bilby Never put a loaded banana in the refrigerator. Mar 20, 2010

oroboros "Your banana or your life." Mar 20, 2010

oroboros Ah ha, gotcha! *focuses binoculars* Mar 18, 2010

reesetee *calls distinctively*

AAAGH! AAAGH! Mar 17, 2010

ruzuzu *Begins scribbling notes about the secretive reesetee's defensive use of the tools available to it--in this instance an orange! Marvelous!* Mar 17, 2010

reesetee *flings orange at ruzuzu's feet*

The reesetee is a secretive bird. Mar 17, 2010

ruzuzu Thanks, mollusque!

Hey, wait--I wasn't looking. Where'd that reesetee go? Mar 16, 2010

mollusque If you're a gull, it might be "ruzuziae". Mar 16, 2010

reesetee Just as I suspected.

*hides behind oranges* Mar 16, 2010

bilby They were being chased by sharks. Mar 16, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Were they on steroids or something? Mar 15, 2010

bilby Heck no, poisonous redback spiders ate all the tarantulas. Mar 15, 2010

ruzuzu *makes notes about clarinet-y banana-ish tarantula call in log book, wonders whether this is actually a new species, and starts to dream about whether the scientific name for this new species would include something like "ruzuzii"* Mar 14, 2010

reesetee *sounds clarinet-y banana-ish tarantula call*

Bilby, do those fancypants bananas hide any deadly black tarantulas? Just askin'. Mar 14, 2010

marky So weird, right when I clicked on this link, on the NPR 'Says You' show, they started talking about Bananas. These kinds of things happen a lot with me. Strange. Mar 13, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Other uses for bananas Mar 13, 2010

oroboros Huh! I'll try it tomorrow morning...

Edit: tried it a couple of times and the jury is still out. Mar 13, 2010

PossibleUnderscore It is said that if you peel a banana backwards you don't have problems with those annoying stringy bits.
Mar 13, 2010

oroboros How to peel a banana. Mar 13, 2010

jasl Carmen Miranda lives! Mar 12, 2010

bilby As it happens I just had one for breakfast and it was sublime. Much less floury than a Cavendish. Notes of tang and the highlands of central Java. Firm texture, reminiscent of cured mammoth butter. Colour is now like this. Mar 11, 2010

chained_bear *watches through binoculars the majestic flight of the reesetee*

Delightful! So much more fun to watch than bananas! Mar 11, 2010

gangerh I prefer 'a slash .....' in a bananame ' ..... to the more pedestrian hyphen'. Mar 11, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Are they hyphens still behind the bananas?

And where did that tarantula go? Fried tarantula with hyphen on top is a delicacy. Mar 10, 2010

Prolagus How are they, yarb? Mar 10, 2010

ruzuzu "4 days ago bilby said: Bought some at the market today. They get redder as they ripen. In about four days they should be ready for throwing at yarb for making rude comments about our hockey prowess."

How are they, bilby? Mar 10, 2010

scarecrow old song: "I like bananas because they have no bones" Mar 10, 2010

ruzuzu *sprinkles in a few jimmies for good measure* Mar 10, 2010

milosrdenstvi *throws a few hyphens in hopes to appease the black-tarantula in the ban---an-a-bunch--* Mar 10, 2010

ruzuzu Ah, there it is. Chained_bear, if you use your binoculars to look at that banana bunch, you'll be able to see a reesetee just beginning to take flight.

The reesetee is known for its distinctive AAAGH! AAAGH! call, which is said to be reminiscent of a musical instrument--I think it's the clarinet. Mar 10, 2010

reesetee *runs out of banana bunch*

AAAGH! A deadly black tarantula! Mar 10, 2010

reesetee *hides all the hyphens behind the banana bunch* Mar 10, 2010

chained_bear Hey! Where'd reesetee go? And what's that bunch of disgusting bananas doing over there? Mar 10, 2010

pogsurf Watch out for rotten bananas under your floor-boards. I learnt this from the only ever timelord i met once. Mar 10, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Simple. I'm the closest relative to hyphens so I should get it. Mar 10, 2010

bilby How do we decide who gets the hyphen? Mar 10, 2010

reesetee Hyphens. Yum! Mar 10, 2010

milosrdenstvi *begins baking the banana-bread, making sure to add the chocolate chips and the hyphen* Mar 10, 2010

reesetee *joins possible*

DAAAAAAAAYY-O! Mar 10, 2010

gangerh Oh, bilby. So we do have banana-growing areas today. Mar 9, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Six and seven and eight and bunch!

Here they come and they wanna go cold. Mar 9, 2010

reesetee Oh, great. Not only am I being spied on at the Trees! list, but now chained is spying on the spy.

*hides behind bunch of bananas* Mar 9, 2010

john Yes, we often freeze about-to-go bananas for later bread baking. Works a charm.

Though the best way to preserve bananas is to peel them, dip them in melted chocolate, pop them on a popsicle stick, and then freeze them. Mar 9, 2010

ruzuzu agatehinge: I've heard of that, too--though I've never tried it.

chained_bear: You're right! I went to my local grocery store and found some "mini" bananas brought to me by one of the two major banana companies. Yay! You must be magic--or else you're spying on me (which won't be very fruitful, since I'm busy spying on reesetee over on the Trees! list). Mar 9, 2010

agatehinge You can put bananas in the freezer. The skins turn black, but the fruit stays good. Or so I've been told. I have only used this method to save bananas that are already blackening and mushifying, to bake into banana bread later. Mar 9, 2010

reesetee Allow me to be the first, chained, to congratulate you on your non-hurling. Mar 9, 2010

chained_bear Our local supermarket (I think most of them, actually) carries non-Cavendish bananas, and also plantains. And much good may it do you all, since bananas are disgusting.*

Though you're all welcome to do your grocery shopping here. I won't interfere in Wordnik-inspired banana-buying sprees.

*I actually put one in a smoothie this morning and didn't hurl. Go figure. Mar 9, 2010

reesetee Uhm, bilby, perhaps you should stay away from those raspberry bananas. ;-)

Sionnach: That video is hilarious--in a very, very disturbing way. Mar 8, 2010

bilby Nonsense. This banana was first served at the Cave 'n' Dish Inn in east Yorkshire, a pub-grub grotto in the village of Snarfarkley. It was specifically bred by the pub landlord, Bing-Bong Burgess, for throwing at stray sheep who invaded the Big Fruit-Off Yellow Underwater Light Transformer Cocktail Hour at his noble premises. It was very successful, leading quickly to its adoption right across the country, not to mention British sheep acquiring their characteristic black face from being banana-bludgeoned in extremis. Mar 8, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Cavendish Bananas are named in honour of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, who acquired an early specimen, and from whose hothouses the cultivars were developed for commercial exploitation worldwide.

wikipedia Mar 7, 2010

bilby EQUAL RIGHTS FOR DWARF BANANAS NOW! Mar 7, 2010

Prolagus Now that you mentioned it, ruzuzu, we have dwarf bananas in Sardinia, too. I think they taste pretty much like "regular" ones, maybe a little better - but again, they grow them in Sardinia so I might just be because they pick them a little later. Mar 7, 2010

ruzuzu *also pining for a non-Cavendish banana*

In Mexico they have lovely little bananas that are about half the size of the the typical Cavendish and have, I think, a better flavor--I'd always assumed that I liked the flavor of the little ones better because I knew they were grown locally, but now I'm starting to understand why the typical banana at a mercado in sunny Mexico tastes so disappointingly like a typical banana in a typical mid-American grocery store in the middle of a typical mid-American winter.

Who was this Cavendish person, anyway? Mar 7, 2010

bilby Well, raspberry-ish is right. Texture is quite firm. Mmmmmm! Mar 7, 2010

sionnach Another thing you probably shouldn't do with your bananas

(though they might glow in the dark) Mar 7, 2010

gangerh yes we have no banana-growing areas Mar 7, 2010

marky no it ruins them, they taste like garbage after that. Like a banana thats been in a garbage truck and smashed. Mar 7, 2010

PossibleUnderscore According to Wikipedia they taste sort of like raspberry. Mar 7, 2010

PossibleUnderscore Yes, but what do they taste like? Potato? Tomato sauce?

I must confess I have never seen, let alone tasted a red banana. Mar 7, 2010

bilby Bought some at the market today. They get redder as they ripen. In about four days they should be ready for throwing at yarb for making rude comments about our hockey prowess. Mar 7, 2010

reesetee Ooh, they must have been tasty.

*pines for non-Cavendish bananas* Mar 7, 2010

bilby A good read. I live in a banana-growing area. At the farmers' market there are sometimes interesting bananas, though not in great quantities. There's also a therapeutic garden for disabled kids and the the lady who runs that likes to accumulate different banana varieties. Last year she gave me some bananas that had a pomegranate-coloured skin and they were delicious. Mar 7, 2010

reesetee Pro, most of us never have either. Here's a good article explaining why (and mentioning the inspiration for the song, too). :-) Mar 7, 2010

bilby Yes we have no refrigerators. Mar 5, 2010

ruzuzu "But bananas like the climate of the very very tropical equator. You should never put bananaaaaaas in the refrigerator." --C. Banana Mar 5, 2010

Prolagus I don't think I have ever tasted a non-Cavendish banana. :-( Mar 5, 2010

bilby Well, this is true for the ubiquitous Cavendish variety. A lot of other varieties hold up better in the fridge than out. Lady fingers, for example. Mar 5, 2010