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bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
I don't think I have ever tasted a non-Cavendish banana. :-(
March 5, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
"But bananas like the climate of the very very tropical equator. You should never put bananaaaaaas in the refrigerator." --C. Banana
March 5, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Yes we have no refrigerators.
March 5, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Pro, most of us never have either. Here's a good article explaining why (and mentioning the inspiration for the song, too). :-)
March 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 7, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Ooh, they must have been tasty.
*pines for non-Cavendish bananas*
March 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 7, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Yes, but what do they taste like? Potato? Tomato sauce?
I must confess I have never seen, let alone tasted a red banana.
March 7, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
According to Wikipedia they taste sort of like raspberry.
March 7, 2010
marky commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
no it ruins them, they taste like garbage after that. Like a banana thats been in a garbage truck and smashed.
March 7, 2010
gangerh commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
yes we have no banana-growing areas
March 7, 2010
sionnach commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Another thing you probably shouldn't do with your bananas
(though they might glow in the dark)
March 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Well, raspberry-ish is right. Texture is quite firm. Mmmmmm!
March 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*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?
March 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 8, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR DWARF BANANAS NOW!
March 8, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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
March 8, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 8, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Uhm, bilby, perhaps you should stay away from those raspberry bananas. ;-)
Sionnach: That video is hilarious--in a very, very disturbing way.
March 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 9, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Allow me to be the first, chained, to congratulate you on your non-hurling.
March 9, 2010
agatehinge commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 9, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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).
March 9, 2010
john commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 9, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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*
March 9, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Six and seven and eight and bunch!
Here they come and they wanna go cold.
March 9, 2010
gangerh commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Oh, bilby. So we do have banana-growing areas today.
March 10, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*joins possible*
DAAAAAAAAYY-O!
March 10, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*begins baking the banana-bread, making sure to add the chocolate chips and the hyphen*
March 10, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Hyphens. Yum!
March 10, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
How do we decide who gets the hyphen?
March 10, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Simple. I'm the closest relative to hyphens so I should get it.
March 10, 2010
pogsurf commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Watch out for rotten bananas under your floor-boards. I learnt this from the only ever timelord i met once.
March 10, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Hey! Where'd reesetee go? And what's that bunch of disgusting bananas doing over there?
March 10, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*hides all the hyphens behind the banana bunch*
March 10, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*runs out of banana bunch*
AAAGH! A deadly black tarantula!
March 10, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 10, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*throws a few hyphens in hopes to appease the black-tarantula in the ban---an-a-bunch--*
March 11, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*sprinkles in a few jimmies for good measure*
March 11, 2010
scarecrow commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
old song: "I like bananas because they have no bones"
March 11, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
"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?
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
How are they, yarb?
March 11, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Are they hyphens still behind the bananas?
And where did that tarantula go? Fried tarantula with hyphen on top is a delicacy.
March 11, 2010
gangerh commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
I prefer 'a slash .....' in a bananame ' ..... to the more pedestrian hyphen'.
March 11, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*watches through binoculars the majestic flight of the reesetee*
Delightful! So much more fun to watch than bananas!
March 11, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 11, 2010
jasl commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Carmen Miranda lives!
March 13, 2010
oroboros commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
How to peel a banana.
March 13, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
It is said that if you peel a banana backwards you don't have problems with those annoying stringy bits.
March 13, 2010
oroboros commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Huh! I'll try it tomorrow morning...
Edit: tried it a couple of times and the jury is still out.
March 13, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Other uses for bananas
March 13, 2010
marky commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 13, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*sounds clarinet-y banana-ish tarantula call*
Bilby, do those fancypants bananas hide any deadly black tarantulas? Just askin'.
March 14, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*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"*
March 14, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Heck no, poisonous redback spiders ate all the tarantulas.
March 15, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Were they on steroids or something?
March 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
They were being chased by sharks.
March 16, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Just as I suspected.
*hides behind oranges*
March 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
If you're a gull, it might be "ruzuziae".
March 16, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Thanks, mollusque!
Hey, wait--I wasn't looking. Where'd that reesetee go?
March 16, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*flings orange at ruzuzu's feet*
The reesetee is a secretive bird.
March 17, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*Begins scribbling notes about the secretive reesetee's defensive use of the tools available to it--in this instance an orange! Marvelous!*
March 17, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*calls distinctively*
AAAGH! AAAGH!
March 17, 2010
oroboros commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Ah ha, gotcha! *focuses binoculars*
March 18, 2010
oroboros commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
"Your banana or your life."
March 20, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Never put a loaded banana in the refrigerator.
March 20, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*blurs self so oroboros can't spot me*
March 24, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*makes another reesetee sighting, scribbles more notes*
May 4, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*flees, cawing*
May 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*makes scholarly notes about the reesetee's ability to pixillate itself*
May 4, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*warns film crew to get ready, then sends message to spider crew to release another tarantula*
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*innocently* Oh look! Are those sprinkles or jimmies?
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*clears throat*
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*more insistent* Over there, behind the banana bunch.
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Okay, fine. Whatever. *cues chirping crickets, puts down notebook, and walks away--slowly*
September 7, 2010
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*calls distinctively*
AAAGH! AAAGH!
*flees, cawing*
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
A-ha! *whips around quickly, then stumbles over notebook*
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Don't point the camera at me, you lunkheads! You're supposed to be filming the secretive reesetee!
September 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*reviews footage*
September 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*reviews footing*
September 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*reviews St. Crispin's Day speech*
September 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*gets too close to one of the tarantulas*
September 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*flees, cawing*
September 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*peeks out from behind a banana leaf*
September 12, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
also never put your banana bat in the refrigerator.
September 13, 2010
bilby commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Hey cuz, what's with the tiny ears?
September 13, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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*
March 12, 2012
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
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.
March 12, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Funny! Did you try throwing them at yarb?
March 12, 2012
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Oh, I forgot!
March 12, 2012
yarb commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
I can confirm that I have not been pelted with any bananas lately - at least not any of a ruddy hue.
March 12, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
I've just added Non-Cavendish Banana Tossing to the panel-discussions-at-wordienikon list.
March 12, 2012
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*alights on nearby branch*
*disappears*
March 14, 2012