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Homemade banana ice cream sammiches, Image from chubbyhubby.net
We don’t have to sit by while the “Morning Banana Diet” marches across the planet, raising prices for the fruit and making emaciated zombies of us all. Here’s a brand new recipe – from the Chubby Hubby Blog – for homemade banana ice cream, served between brownie cookies [...]

Lots of folks emailed me news items on this. Japan has gone nuts for the “Morning Banana Diet,” which promises to help you lose weight with this formula: you start in the morning with a breakfast of bananas and room-temperature water, then eat whatever you want – other than desert – the rest of the [...]

Photo: PR Newswire
Readers from other countries, you’ll just have to take my word for it: “The Banana Splits” was one of the strangest things ever presented to children as entertainment. It was an NBC show with costumes created by Sid and Marty Kroft, who might best be described as Walt Disney, split into two by [...]

Battles Banana-Wielding Thug.
In my book, I note that one observer described the banana as a “weapon of conquest” in Latin America. This doesn’t apply in Maryland, where a would-be thief attempted to use the fruit to rob a 7-Eleven – and was denied by a brave clerk.
Incredibly (or maybe not so incredibly), this isn’t the [...]

A bigger threat to the banana than any disease. The world’s favorite fruit is the cheapest and healthiest alternative to junk food. So what would the junk food industry do?
This:

Gotta go try one.

Though one’s gotta say, kitteh don’t look too happeh.