My Grandpa Smith is one cool guy. He’s still active in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. He skied the slopes around Lake Tahoe until they moved here. He tried to teach my children how to start a fire with flint and pocket lint. Yep, he’s one cool guy.
So one day when he pondered a deep question, I told him I would find the answer. “What,” he wondered, “are the strings on bananas called?” I went into action, surfing the web, posting notes on fruit bulletin boards … even emailing Dole directly. No one answered. It appears that the strings are nameless.
This quest began a while ago, but recently Grandpa brought up my failure to find THE ANSWER. “Due to your utter inability after a year of diligent searching to find the scientific name for the shreds that develop from peeling a banana I have decided to take care of this matter by self declaration. I hereby declare the shreds to be named ‘Banana Chads.'”
Use your new knowledge for good. 🙂 If you have a better name for banana strings, leave it in the comments.
Yep! That sounds like my dad. You failed to mention he’s almost 80! Some people reading your blog will think he’s lost his mind. NOPE! He’s like this ALL the time! That’s one of the things that makes him so lovable. Since the banana has to do a strip tease just so that you can eat it, I think the strings should be called …wait for it… a “B- string”! teehee!
Love, Auntie Depressant
Banana chads. Great name. He’s a writer too, I see.
The strings in bananas are called Phloem (pronounced flom) Bundles. See http://www.chiquita.com/chiquita/discover/ttfaq.asp
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little “stringy
Things” off of it. That’s how the primates do it.
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them
Connected at the stem, they ripen faster.