Comments on: Bananas

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:06:52 +0000

Hello Dan and welcome, I’m loving your speculation here about the banana eater and his perhaps more sensible plan to build up immunity. Overall, it seems to me that there are two alternatives here:

1. the bananas were a means to an end, either literally, or as you suggest, eternal life.
2. he likes bananas. A lot.

You will also be pleased to know that he didn’t quite reach Keith of Nuts in May’s level of chewing.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:15:03 +0000

As a banana is significantly softer than a handful of nuts and liable to slip down quite naturally after only 30 or so chews, I hope the man used his discretion…

Big fan of Nuts In May. Not a big fan of banana-bothering tube-dwellers. I do like 23 Daves theory that it may have been a very precise, extraordinarily patient suicide bid.

Alternatively, since too much potassium can lead to cardiac arrest, perhaps he’s hoping to build up an immunity by slowly increasing his banana intake, thus reducing his chances of a fatal heart attack and, by logical progression, attaining eternal life.

Or he may just have been ‘a bit weird’.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:10:55 +0000

I am completely with you Piley. I’m a fan of the firm, crisp yellow banana too, but the minute it turns.. my stomach turns with it. I don’t like hot banana or banana cakes either. Fuss fuss.

Anyway, the banana-lovers bananas were of the decent, firm, non-bruised, non-mushy variety. If they had been any other, I would have been off the train after the 2nd one!

By: Piley

Piley — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:38:33 +0000

How freaky!! Love the description tho! Can just picture him stuffing one banana after another with a gormless look on his face!!!

Depending on what sort of bananas they were this could have had me gagging tho! I don’t mind slightly green firm bananas, but older, black spotted, mushy bananas are awful! And the older they get the worse they smell too. yuk! Someone I sit near at work manages to eat a manky banana every day, then somehow the bloody skin gets thrown in MY BIN!!! I get this awful waft of manky nana whipping up.

So what state were this blokes bananas in??!!

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:52:23 +0000

Well, 23Daves, I did not know that. This gives me a different approach to the whole experience. Maybe the deathless stare and the relentless banana eating were nothing more than a silent cry for help? There are worse ways to die I suppose.

Hello Mrs Mondo and welcome! Yes, it was a feat to behold, especially since he ate them so methodically and at a rate of about one banana every five minutes I estimate. Although creepy, this is nothing apparently. According to 23Daves’s recommended site above, 7 bananas is a good number to eat – this takes you right to the very edge of danger. Oh, boy…

By: Mrs Mondo

Mrs Mondo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:10:57 +0000

Oh my god that’s just plain WEIRD!! (I think Mr Mondo was right the first time – maybe it’s a banana affection!) I think seeing a man tuck into five bananas one after the other before my very eyes would have me off that train immediately!

By: 23 Daves

23 Daves — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:14:46 +0000

Never mind about the etiquette, he’s lucky he didn’t give himself potassium poisoning (or maybe he did – there’s some comfort for you at least). You’re not really supposed to eat that many bananas in one short spell.

http://chemistry.about.com/b/2009/02/19/how-many-bananas-does-it-take-to-poison-you.htm

He’s heading for an early grave, I tell you.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:06:34 +0000

That’s it Simon! Eating carriages! All the worlds problems can be solved via the blog can’t they?

By: SimonB

SimonB — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:23:59 +0000

One banana at a time is enough for me, or was, not sure I can even face one now. I don’t mind food on the go in general, but would prefer it was restricted. Buffet cars may be on the way out, but perhaps we could put eating carriages next to the quiet ones…

By: Mondo

Mondo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:28:30 +0000

I don’t see it so much now – but I’m getting later trains. It was when I’d catch the four o clock flyer that it was populated by brickies, boozing and burping it up..

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:11:28 +0000

I’ve long a secret yearning to ban eating on trains, BTLP. Yours and Mondo’s story suggest that we’re right. At least the banana’s were quiet and non-smelly – loud crisp crunchers, smelly food and all citrus fruits should be banned, banned, banned.

Is that common then, Mondo, commuters tucking into the Stella on the way home?! I rarely see boozers (or eaters) on the train around 5-7pm, but after 9pm it’s a different story.

By: Mondo

Mondo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:48:54 +0000

whoops – meant affectation!

By: Mondo

Mondo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:41 +0000

I hate affection eaters – heavy on the theatrics over a few scoops of food. Crunchers are worse than munchers. Brickies with a can of Fosters/Stella and a bag of McCoys on the C 2 C line (way home, not way in) make a right poppy show of eating crisps

By: Bltp

Bltp — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:59:44 +0000

I was on the bus recently and a slightly grand and slightly obnoxious African guy was berating a fellow black guy about eating on the bus, saying how he only ever ate at home (not that he did any cooking he proudly proclaimed) he was a bit of ar*e but I’m increasingly coming around to his view. This banana man was clearly dodgy (and his GI sugar levels will probably kill him) but having been trapped on a train with a snooty woman’s sesame noodles recently a “no food on the go rule” looks good to me.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:20:12 +0000

You really don’t need to make me any more paranoid than what I already am, ISBW.

By: ishouldbeworking

ishouldbeworking — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:05:24 +0000

Ooh, no, that would have done it for me too. Bet he was filming you while he did it. Check YouTube carefully. Look under ‘Banana Man’.