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Bananas are basically a dying breed at this point.
Personally, I'm more about figs and lemons.

Samuel Murphy6 said:🙂
This makes such an amazing frappe! 😍

I bet you're really craving that frappe right now 🤮 😁

William Rodriguez36 said:Bananas are the death of us all.

Total urban legend. ☕

My top 5 fruits:
1. cherries
2. strawberries
3. peaches
4. blueberries
5. blackberries/raspberries
6. plums
7. nectarines
8. tangerines
9. currants
10. white grapes

Top 3 fruits that should be illegal just because they're boring:
1. apples
2. oranges
3. bananas

Apples are hands down the absolute best. It’s honestly been proven time and time again: the cheapest ones you can find are usually the absolute greatest 😲 🥳

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm also a massive fan of cantaloupe 😳

and man, I love absolutely losing myself in a good watermelon, just diving in headfirst until I'm satisfied 😎 😬

just like those sweet cherries from Michigan... purely perfection :šajeta: 👋

If anyone wants to deal with Murva, come over to my place and try transplanting him yourself. He’s a total nightmare—always buzzing around and attracting every damn pest in the neighborhood. 😠
As for the bananas dying out, it's actually happening... well, at least the most common variety is getting wiped out because of some fungal outbreak. It's a mess, kind of like how blight hits potatoes or how things go south in the Midwest. 😬

I just finished grating two massive carrots, tossing them with a bit of sugar just to get them sweating out all that sweet juice 😍 😍
Honestly, I go through like a pound of raw carrots every single week 🤣

God, this is such a drag... :boring:

It’s hardly boring when there’s always a game on to watch.😬

lonebison37 said:Just grated up some carrots with a bit of sugar to get that juice flowing. 😍 😍
I go through a pound of raw carrots every single week. 🤣

😲 🙂 🙂 Still waiting for an apology. 🙂 🙂

Top 3 food traumas from childhood:
Carrot with apple and lemon. 🙂
2. green salad.
3. liver.

Carol Jackson45 said:The third one

or, if you want to be a bit more poetic about it: "PURE BILE! 😍">

😱 🙂 😱 🙂 😱 🙂 😱 🙂

it’s easily number one.

Let me jump in here:
childhood food trauma:

1. Cornmeal mush and milk (they served it at 8:00 AM, and I’d spend until 11:00 just pestering them for more) 😁 but the catch was I wasn't allowed to go play 😢
2. Beets 😱
3. Liver 🤮

Hold on, does anyone here actually hate liver?
Good grief, it’s easily the best organ on the plate.
Perfectly sautéed with onions.🙂

My culinary traumas:

1 finding a cow tongue in my soup
2 brain with eggs
3 tail meat
🙂

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Number two.

Let's just go ahead and do one more, and then you can finally get my list finished.😬

The insides are just gross—especially the liver.

Bone marrow doesn't count 🙂 🙂 :infarkt:

Carol Jackson45 said:😲 🙂 🙂 I’m still sitting here waiting for an apology that hasn't come yet... 🙂 🙂

I didn't quite catch what you meant by that... 😕 🤣

Carol Jackson45 said:Alright, let’s talk about it... because honestly, I feel like everyone carries some weird, specific food-related baggage from when they were kids that just shapes how they eat today... Here are my top three childhood food traumas: First off, there was always that one "healthy" meal that felt more like a punishment than actual sustenance... You know the type, where your parents would serve up this mountain of steamed, unseasoned vegetables—I’m talking mushy broccoli or limp green beans—and basically tell you that you weren't allowed to leave the table until every single bite was gone... It wasn't even about nutrition at that point, it was just pure psychological warfare, making you sit there staring at a plate of sadness while your friends were all eating pizza or something actually decent... Then there’s the whole "don't play with your food" thing, which I found so incredibly stifling... Every time I tried to be creative or even just move a pea around on my plate, I'd get this lecture about respect and manners that made me feel like a criminal just for having an imagination... It totally killed any sense of fun or exploration during mealtime, turning what should have been a relaxing part of the day into this rigid, high-pressure performance where you had to act like a tiny, miniature adult... And finally, the absolute worst part was definitely those forced family dinners where someone would inevitably pick a fight over something totally trivial... Like, maybe my dad would start venting about his job or some stressful situation at work, and suddenly the atmosphere at the table would turn so heavy and tense that you could practically taste the anxiety in the air... You’d be sitting there trying to enjoy your mashed potatoes, but instead, you're just bracing yourself for the next outburst, and it really leaves a lasting impression on how you view sharing a meal with people... it just makes you want to eat alone in peace...
I’m telling you, I just can't stand it when people try to pass off that ridiculous carrot, apple, and lemon concoction as some kind of miracle cure... it's honestly insulting to anyone with half a brain, and frankly, it makes my blood boil how much people swear by this nonsense...

Nah, forget all that extra stuff... just give me the carrots and the sugar.
Oh, by the way, she was one of my grandma's old friends from back in the day, living just right down the street... 😁 She always used to insist that she had a serious sugar problem... 🙏

Carol Jackson45 said:I honestly don't even know where to start with this nonsense... just thinking about it makes my blood boil. It’s all just pure, unadulterated chaos, and frankly, I'm sick of pretending otherwise. People act like everything is fine, but we all see what's happening right in front of our eyes, and it's nothing but a complete joke...

That’s exactly how it is. Especially when it comes to the white stuff... I mean, honestly, what even is that? It's basically just a salad with zero chlorophyll... just empty filler... 🙏
My mouth is watering just thinking about it...
I’m a big fan of adding a little extra water at the end too, just to make sure everything stays super juicy...

Carol Jackson45 said:3. liver...

Oh man, wine-braised... with polenta? Good lord, my mouth is watering just thinking about it... mother of pearl...

Beets are just straight-up disgusting... I can't even look at them without feeling nauseous...

Yeah, totally blanked on the grits and veal brains. And honestly, even those other three things mentioned above? Can't wrap my head around them either.

And once again, just by following a trail of random thoughts, we find ourselves circling right back to the FBI... 😍 🤣

Basil said:Two brains with eggs

Honestly, that sounds delicious to me.

When it comes to gourmet food, I’ve always been a fan of lamb eyes. I saw them mentioned in "Octopussy" once and got curious. Personally, I think they're even better than the rest of the lamb. 😁

lonebison37 said:That’s the law. Especially the white stuff. A salad with barely any chlorophyll left in it.🙏
makes my mouth water immediately.
I even like to splash a little water on it afterward just to make it extra juicy.

Gross. Adding water makes it twice as gross. :ugh: :shivers:

The only way I can stomach lettuce is if it's bone-dry, tossed with tomatoes, corn, hard-boiled eggs, cheese, and some red cabbage, then drenched in a decent vinaigrette (like balsamic or apple cider).

My top 3 swaps for crappy lettuce:
1. endive
2. radicchio
3. arugula

Basil said:Wait, hold on—is nobody here a fan of liver?
Seriously, though. It’s easily the only organ worth eating.
Perfectly sautéed with onions. 🙂

Give me a break. That cafeteria food always tasted like they pulled it out of some alcoholic with cirrhosis.🤮

@ Krepan 🤣 what a total bourgeois stomach you've got 🙂 👋

grandpa the du du monkey said:Uh, I think it tastes good.

When it comes to gourmet stuff, I’d give lamb eyes an extra point. I saw them in "Octopussy" and just had to try it... honestly, they're better than the rest of the lamb... 😁

with a nice glass of Chianti 😈