2001年10月16日 · The banana will not become fragrant and soft until ripening, with is done in the region it is sold (say, within 150 miles of the store). Flies do not penetrate the skin in the Tropics, and are not attracted to green bananas.

2011年3月31日 · I bought a bunch of bananas yesterday at the perfect stage of ripeness, i.e. a little green. My husband and daughter each ate one. Today, the four bananas left had split open their skins all down the length of the banana. My daughter, being pregnant, is freaking the fuck out. (Can I say fuck in GQ?) I didn’t dare tell her about the banana worms!

2020年6月25日 · I saw a gif online of someone holding what looked like an Apple watch against the skin of a banana and it registering a pulse. I’ve tried it with my Fitbit Versa and got the same result, it showed a pulse of 70 bpm. What…

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2010年12月17日 · Posted on this board several times before, but time for another airing: Banana Worms. These are the large (up to 12cm long) larvae of a large subtropical beetle - subodiosus fructus-reproba - cases of infestation are incredibly common - perhaps as many as 60% of the bananas in a typical supermarket will contain a banana worm, yet they are almost never …

2007年11月16日 · In the “disgusting food you like” thread, a number of the foods that were mentioned were vegetables that I like if cooked properly, but I agree that they’re disgusting if they’re overcooked the way that a lot of older pe…

2006年5月15日 · Why you lazy kids, with your modern micro-oven waves and fancy-schmancy electrical refrigeration. Why in MY day, back in Kenya, we’d take sixteen gallon drums of cooked rice and force feed them to two gazelles, then we’d debone them and stuff them inside a deboned rhinocerous, which was stuffed inside a deboned pregnant elephant.

2006年12月18日 · Here’s my entry: I was watching Charlie Rose and he had a replay of an interview with Ahmet Ertegun, from a few years ago. Ertegun said (paraphrase): Every region of the world has its own beautiful music. But no one ever hears that music outside of the region. With the exception of music made by African Americans: jazz, blues, rock n’ roll. Now that’s an idea …

2004年9月7日 · My 16 month old daughter is eating some frozen green beans for lunch. I guess the cold makes her teeth and gums feel better, she is getting in her two year molars. She likes frozen corn and frozen broccoli as well. Does anyone else eat vegetables while they are frozen?

2004年11月11日 · They’re predicting freezing rain tomorrow, and I thought if aliens landed here, they would skedaddle because of things that we take for granted: • Sometimes water pours down from the sky. • Sometimes frozen water pours down from the sky. • Sometimes part of the earth just explodes. Or shakes everything. • It gets hot or cold enough to goddam kill you. • A lot of …