Thanks, Nick, for sharing about your green bananas' experience (Comment, yesterday). It's good to know that the SAF takes "going green" very seriously in more ways than one. But I don't think what I bought was the edible green variety.
This bunch looks like pisang mas ("golden" bananas), which by self-definition should have turned yellow, as in this picture I found online:
1.Reduce depression
2.High in iron
3.Rich in fiber
4.Eyesight protection
5.Protects your kidney
6.Reduce blood pressure and stroke
7.Prevent heartburn
8.Helps give up smoking
9.Reduce acidity
10.Reduce itchyness
11.Reduce stress
12.Reduce stroke risk
Helps give up smoking (Point No 8)? Go around with a banana in your mouth?
Meanwhile, those darned bananas I bought are proving a challenge to me with regard to Point No 11. Here's the latest pic I took:
Don't be fooled; my camera seems to be on the side of this wicked bunch... they are all as green, and hard to the touch, as ever. I cut one up and I could see the glistening sap:
But I've learnt that when life throws you "lemon" bananas, since you can't make either lemonade or banana split (the above picture notwithstanding), you can learn more about this versatile fruit online, such as:
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Musa species
FAMILY: Musaceae
I got that from this interesting site:
http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/Fruits/Banana/BananaPlant11-88.htm
Here's some other interesting extracts, including what you can do with unripe bananas:
Out of the ripe fruit is made a juice that is sold in tins. Also from certain ripe species a liqueur is brewed, and preserved bananas are not altogether unknown in some countries. In the kitchen, most of the ripe bananas are made in sweet dishes e.g. pisang goreng (fried bananas), pisang kolak (bananas in coconut milk and brown sugar), pisang nagasari (bananas in coconut milk jelly), kue pisang (little banana tarts) etc. And... the unripe banana can have its use as well. It can be dried and pulverised into flour. The dried form can be used also for krupuk (crackers) and kripik (chips).
Every banana plant gives one bunch of bananas and does not grow anymore, but dies off. From the root, in the meantime, will grow 3 or 4 small banana plants. But it will take at least a year before those will produce bunches of bananas. When the ground is fertile, one generation of species can produce bananas for twenty years without decrease of quality in the fruit.
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So, if life gives you lemons?... Here are what some wise cracks suggest you should do:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/lemons
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Snowed under, but it's not snow!
Lastly, there was plenty of billowy foam in the western part (Choa Chu Kang area) on Tuesday morning after detergent concentrate had spilled into a canal. A fire had broken out in a warehouse and cannisters of the concentrate had broken up when they were damaged. The civil defence force had to use foam to fight the blaze. This AsiaOne story has pictures:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20121114-383203.html
As expected, wacky bloggers went to work to create spoofs like this one:
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