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Whilst on my current mission of crumpet importance, I've discovered something quite disturbing!
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Bananas are not in fact fruit or vegetables, but herbs
Shocking!
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I feel an experiment coming on
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Hmmm banana and mayo sarnies = great
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fluffy mess
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A banana by any other name would be as bananary!
Dont they also say that banana helps to naturally replenish the cerotonin in your brain? It may be a myth I dont know, its just something I heard.
Banana milkshake rocks!
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'tis true. They help produce endorphines to help with well being and actually help promote sleep.
A banana milkshake would go down quite well right now
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fluffy mess
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mmmmm......banana milkshake.
Dammit, now I want a milkshake!
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bananananana.....herb???
sorry but i just cant make the connection!!
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Draco Iracundia
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i want a banana milkshake tooo
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Macaque of all trades
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Doc you just defined nuts in part....*wibble* or a pine cone.
a true fruit does not contain a swollen pericarp i.e. fleshy bit.
whereas a "false" fruit does. it is a very grey area.
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The stringing things in the banana make it herb. atleast thats what i heard
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Macaque of all trades
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how about bent ones are fruit and straight ones are herbs....would that make people feel good???
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Is that a deliberate innuedno
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Macaque of all trades
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yep
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Shhhha-mooove
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artisan
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well I had a mate who prepared a banana or too for smoking.... twas a mellow high... prefer the greener stuff tho
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artisan
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mmmmmmmmkay
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It's bananas, B, A, N, A, N, AS bananas.
Good to see a healthy split on this one *groan*
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artisan
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har-dee-har
Carpal \'Tunnel
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banana = non-herb
banana tree = herb
However, there is some evidence that rice crispy treats are sentient beings.
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my hampster isn't sentient...I think it likes it's banananananas too much. (can never remember when to stop spelling banananas)
I caught it last night lying on it's back staring at the artex on the ceiling, rushed over to get a surprised.."why aren't you in bed" look.
swear my pets have parties when i'm not in
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ha ha ha
hey some one else who never knows how many 'ananas' to put in the word baananananas!!!
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fluffy mess
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bananas, say it with me people, bananas!
I think the banana is and can be what ever it wants to be. Fruit or herb, will a re-classification in our mental dictionaries change how often we do or do not eat them. I think not!
But I'm gonna go with the herb thing because i'v always thought of it as a fruit and a change is as good as a holiday.
*runs home to take bananas out of fridge and places them lovingly between sage and oregano in the cupboard*
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ha ha ha.....
i can say banananas i just cant write it!!!
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Macaque of all trades
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I like saying bananananananananana
la la la lalala la, la la la lalalala la
1 banana, 2 bananan 3 banana 4, 5 banana's make a bunch and so do many more,
yay! go fleegle, bingo, snorkey and the one whose name i can never remember
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fluffy mess
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BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbanananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananananan..........
oh no, now I want a banana milkshake again, it took me forever to find one yesterday and its a long walk
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artisan
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Location: Berkshire, UK
my rat prefers apples tho
the henna lady
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I like making banana milkshakes with chocolate ice cream..yummmm..
Anyway...the Banana "Tree" is an herbacious plant because its stalk doesn't not contain woody materials. No wood= Not a tree.
The Banana itself is concidered a fruit, though the ones we eat from stores are sterile, so the seeds are not large.
Oxford online and thestraightdope.com are great resources on figuring out what food goes where and why (and most anything else), though the whole statement of a nut being a hard, oily, single-double encased fruit screwed with my head.
And a fruit is technically not categorized by the seeds being *inside* because there are several berries that would not qualify, it is simply the seed bearing part.
In my herbalism class I learned that vegetables are herbacious plants cultivated for the edible use of it's parts, whereas a fruit is only the seedy part. So, alot of plants which are fruits can also be vegetables but vegetables do not so easily shift to be categorized as fruits. It's nuts!
Pele
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artisan
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Location: Berkshire, UK
basicly we're all lazy sods who cant be bothered calling whatever plants or parts of them their right names
QuackerJack
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thanks guys, this thread has just entertained a group of us at uni. but bananas will forever be a fruit in my book!
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