bananas

Click on the image above to see a larger picture of our bananas. They look pretty green, don't they? I tried peeling one this morning, but found it too hard. I bought these bananas via Grocery Gateway almost TWO WEEKS AGO. Where the heck did GG get these mutant bananas from? I sent the photo to them this morning with exactly that question. Well, almost exactly. I didn't use the word "mutant".

I recently sold an article about how to store fruit and vegetables to Dollar Stretcher, but I have to confess that the secret of bananas still eludes me to some extent. I know they're a good ethylene producer (a ripening agent), and that putting them in a bag with another good ethylene producer will help speed up ripening. Storing bananas on a hook is supposed to help the fruit last longer because it avoids "resting bruises" and encourages ventilation.

Then why don't I ever have bananas ripen when I want them to? They're green and hard one day, brown and mushy the next.

Or apparently green forever, like our current bananas. In another couple weeks, I'm going to contact the people at Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Maybe they'll give me money for our mutant bananas, enough for a down payment of a new house.

Hey, miracles do happen. Like bananas that are still green after two weeks.