General Chat

68 years ago today.

After not knowing what a Banana was until after the war, do we now take them
for granted.

28th January. 1946.
The first post-war bananas arrive in Britain.

Three-year-old dies of banana overdose.
25th February. 1946.
For years bananas have been nothing but a memory. now they are returning.
but for three-year-old Dorothy Shippey from Bridlington. Yorkshire. a treat became
a tragedy. She was given four bananas as a treat and a few hours later, she was dead.

8th March. 1946.
London. Bananas arrive at Covent Garden Market for the first time since 1939.


F.

How dreadful never thought that could happen. I remember my first banana I was with my g/ma and her sister and her g/son we were at Edinburgh Zoo and my gt Aunt gave me and her g/son a banana, we ran off till I had to stop and run back to g/ma to ask what to do with it and I can still hear the "snooty" way Aunt May said to g/ma ..."Can she not open a banana yet?" to which g/ma replied "she has never seen one" I was only about 4 and after all that I don't think I liked it :-D

Well Nolls I was about the same age when I had my first banana after the war and not knowing any different I started eating it skin and all. After a couple of bites I said I didn't like it and mum saw what I'd done. I've never been keen on them ever since though......not surprising!! :-S

Apparently one of the Australian test cricketers lives on nothing else but bananas, eating up to 20 of them every day. I love sliced banana on toast as a quick snack.

with custard hot or cold yummy :-D

Fried in butter, yummy!!! :-D

Lesley x

Theres something about watching a young person, (curvy tennis players for one)peel open and eat a banana, three or four in a row...........instant energy, I'm told............


athletes do it!
so there must be some truth in it...
Bob

I like bananas, cos they don't have bones.

:-)

I like bananas, because they have no bones. (Something we used to sing, finishing with 'pom pom'. )

I remember dried bananas during the war - they were lovely

Yes, Ann, my aunt used to buy them and when she visited us she gave us some to try. I loved them. The dried bananas in the shops now are not the same though. :-(

I too, remember my first banana and not knowing how to peel it.

Have any of you tried a peanut butter and banana sandwich? Next to bread and cheese, it's my favourite sandwich.

Our bananas are ripening..........

in a few weeks we'll probably have hundreds of them!

If the possums & fruit bats don't get there first.

:-D