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    I buy bananas from the banana shop.

    I used to buy bright yellow bananas, but gave up doing that. By the time you've got home, your bright yellow bananas will have gone spotty and soft, and in the final part of the journey you will have been hotly pursued by a small cloud of fruit flies which have been attracted by the unmistakeable smell of putrefying banana wafting from your carrier bag.

    I don't like bananas which have gone so soft that you can break off the end and squeeze out the contents like toothpaste.

    I like my bananas to be firm. I like to be able to unpeel it, and have the fruit inside remain erect, and for it not to subside like a post-coital todger and then fall soggily on to the floor.

    I've tried buying unripe bananas. Green bananas. That way they last a bit longer - only a few hours, usually - but what happens if you are smitten with an insatiable craving for a banana before they have ripened?

    You might as well try to eat a wooden tent peg.

    And even that's assuming you can prise it from its Mil-spec Aerospace-grade Multi-role combat skin.

    So you leave them for a little while to ripen.

    You watch them carefully, checking their colour and gently palpating them from time to time in the hope of discovering the optimum moment to snap one from the bunch, lasciviously unpeel it, and enjoy its tropical rudenesses.

    You might think you could do that. You might keep a security camera trained on your bananas, and watch them like a hawk-eyed security guard for that elusive moment of ripeness.

    But you will miss it.

    You will.

    Your attention will slip for a moment. You may sneeze, or you may look away for a split second.

    And in that split second, your bananas will go black and turn to mush.

    I love a banana, but they are a very trying fruit.

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    You need to buy them unripe first! Not too green, just green enough. Never buy too many in one go either. We all love bananas, but you have to be patient
     
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    Bananas - is it them, or me?


    Sounds like its you Phutters old friend.
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    I like bananas but Mrs Crasher won't buy them because she has read too many stories of big hairy jumping spiders. Siders she hates, spider that jump, well....
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    Well we had a power cut this morning.

    My PC, TV, DVD, shut down.

    Then I discovered that my phone and tablet batteries were dead.

    To top it off, it was raining so I couldn’t go for a walk, bike, or run.

    The garage door opener needed electricity so I couldn’t go anywhere in the car.


    I went to the kitchen to make coffee and then remembered this also needed power, so I sat and talked with the wife for a while.

    She seems like a nice person
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    What, a "conversation"?, like in books or in films? Mrs Crasher has been, Mrs Crasher for 26 years and I still don't know her first name......
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    Apparently mine's called Alexandra, which is nice!
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    Keep your banana away from the other fruit as its will ripen that super fast and turn it to mush too.

    Bananas are the devil in the fruit bowl!!!
     
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    No tomatoes are the enemy, they are a fruit but other fruit hate them so much (Kiwi fruit have a particular repugnance for tomatoes) they made tomatoes go to the vegetable rack where people turn them into purée for slathering on pizza or Tomato soup which is the appetiser of the Devil himself….
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    I think it's you friend. you have to buy the bananas with a bit of green at the tip of it. It will give you enough time so it will be perfectly ripe when you get home. Not mushy.
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