Banana Strings

I love bananas. They're so healthy and full of vitamins. I like them just after they've turned from green to yellow. That's when they're nice and firm and most flavorful.

Of course, it never fails that one day they're absolutely perfect and then the next day, they're too ripe. I have 5 more in there like that, now. I just ate one. It tasted ok. It was slightly "riper" than I normally like them but they don't taste too bad. Also, it's this stage where they begin to show "bruises". I definitely won't eat that part. I cut that off. I figure if it's bruised, then that's nature's way of telling me to stay away from that particular section.

The other thing that bothers me when they get "too ripe" like that is the banana strings. You know they're between the banana and the peel. Most of the time the strings stay stuck to the banana and not to the peel. I hate those things.

Today, I thought I'd gotten all the strings off, but wouldn't you know during the next to the last bite of banana one of those wretched banana strings fell onto my lip. YUCK!

That's why banana eating for me will remain a private matter-there's no way I could eat a banana in public because I don't want folks to know I have this phobia about banana strings. Ok. Maybe it's not a phobia as much as it's a dislike. A STRONG dislike.

"Grits is one of those country-boy words that is both singular and plural-like deer, elk and sheep. I think the singular is appropriate when there's a modifier that makes it clear one is talking about something specific. Like, 'Grits are good for you, but these here grits is tasty.'"~~Joe Wrabek