Oh yes, we have no bananas
I’m sure this is a common occurrence in most households: you buy a bunch of bananas and for a few days they are in that perfect state of ripeness and look like something from a food magazine. These perfect bananas are eaten quickly.
By the next day they look spotted and diseased and your significant other named Joe won’t eat the last two.
Uh, not that I know this “Joe” person.
So anyway, you resort to bribery. You offer to make banana bread if he can bring you third spotty banana. You say it as though making a loaf of banana bread is the culmination of your life’s work and desires.
The third spotty banana is brought home and you coo over it as though you made it yourself. Banana bread is baked and then devoured with much enjoyment and large cups of tea.
Plus, positive reinforcement like the above ensures that eventually “Joe” will leave three bananas on the counter to go spotty.
And I’ll bake banana bread to celebrate.
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Mmm, I love banana bread. I have an especially tasty recipe with whole wheat flour and honey if you’re interested…
i love your little pictures…they crack me up. i guess ‘joe’ and ‘husbandito’ are twins. husbandito refuses to eat a banana once it gets a brown dot on it. but what can i say? i refuse to eat them at all. they make me gag and leave a weird-o film on my teeth.
Love the drawing! Boyfriend will specifically leave 3 bananas to rot so I can make banana bread too!
@Suze – that sounds delicious! Send it on
@CWG – they do leave a weird film – I never really thought about it before, but they totally do. That’s sort of gross. I may have to rethink bananas. There must be other ways to get potassium.
@bFlat – Perhaps Boyfriend could give Joe lessons? Joe always leaves two. Just two.
Bananas make me gag as well…unless baked into bread or sliced into pudding.
Yes, that sounds exactly like what happens at our house. I make a LOT of banana bread…so much that we have several frozen loaves.
hahahaha…why are you so effin’ hilarious!??!
But it’s true, you gotta have enough spotty bananas, and I need four to make the recipe just right for me, but who’s the prince that will bring ‘em? 
@ Allison – Have you ever had banana Arrowroot cookies? Those rock. Banana taste with no banana grossness.
@ Maleesha – I am totally invading your freezer for snacks to go with my tea – so much easier than waiting on that elusive third banana.
@ Romi – Oh sweet banana prince…where art thou?
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