Entries tagged with 'bananas'
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Photograph by .mands. on Flickr Fewer Japanese people can get skinny these days. With bananas the hot new diet trend, it's hard to keep them stocked. Over the last year, the Japanese division of Dole has increased shipments by 25-percent, but still fails to keep up. The Banana Diet regimen includes: a raw banana and glass of room-temperature water for breakfast, then basically anything thereafter, except sweets and limited alcohol. Once Asian celebrities started endorsing the banana diet, the yellow fruit got hot. If you're eating a banana right now, you're probably not in Japan....
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As most serious eaters know, holidays are full of temptation for those of us trying to lose weight. I went to two Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) dinners this week, and they could have been my undoing. But in both cases, I had a plan going in that just might have worked. I tried to fill myself up with freshly picked farmers' market apples and bananas (from farms far away from New York) before I arrived at the dinners, and I think I might have succeeded. In a week that could have been disastrous weight-wise, the apples and bananas could have saved me. Something else might have helped as well, namely, since it was forgotten. Let me explain....
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This video funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service's Small Step program features Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor (filmed before they won yesterday) plugging healthy food. Along with the cast of the animated Christian show 3-2-1 Penguins!, the women promote their idea of a "balanced" diet—one drastically different from that of fellow American athlete Michael Phelps. Says Kerri Walsh: My favorite snack is a banana because it gives me all the energy I need to before a big match. A banana? No three sandwiches of fried eggs, grits, French toast, and chocolate chip pancakes? Phelps would scoff. Then he would eat a banana as if it were the Runts candy version. Watch the...
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For his Think Globally, Act Locally performance video, Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson put on a mask embedded with firecracker-stuffed bananas and filmed himself lighting each fuse, causing the bananas to explode. What's the message? ArtSlant says, "The banana, a classic agent for slapstick pratfalls, has also now come to represent the pitfalls of corporate farming practices." I say, "Bananas are evil and must be destroyed." I'm probably wrong....
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The queen of buttery goodness Paula Deen shocks us yet again with her
Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole.
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Starbucks had new signage today welcoming the Vivanno. As explained yesterday, it's a nutritious answer to the indulgent Frappuccino, with only 250 calories for the 16-ounce Orange Mango Banana flavor, and 270 calories for the Banana Chocolate. Are they worth it? Fewer calories than a Jamba Juice smoothie or a Frappuccino, but they're gross. Banana Chocolate After tasting one spoonful of the Banana Chocolate, Ed Levine compared it to milk of magnesia. Yum! Chewable tablets that relieve heartburn! Watery, with fake chocolate powder undertones, this isn't good. The closest Jamba Juice counterpart: Peanut Butter Moo'd, minus the peanut butter part. Vanilla frozen yogurt, chocolate "Moo'd base," soy milk, ice, and frozen bananas yielded no discernible flavor, but was more...
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The original Chiquita Banana commercial produced by Disney in the 1940s pretty much sums up everything I know about bananas: they taste best when the skin has brown flecks, they go well in pie, and you shouldn't put them in the refrigerator. New things that I learned are that male bananas are normal sized and naked while female bananas are human sized, wear slinky skirts, and sing catchy educational songs about how to eat their kin. Watch the video after the jump....
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Fruit should never be wrapped in a tray meant for ground beef. Especially bananas. This excessive packaging is just ludicrous, unless there are people who actually eat peels and want them super sterile. Also, who's in the back on wrap duty? An intern? Since Flickr user alison*h spotted this madness in Dundee, Scotland the grocery store started applying sticky labels directly to bananas. [via Food-Notes] Related What's Your Banana IQ? Bananas Scaring Atheists Elderly Woman Lip-Synching to Chiquita Banana Song...
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©iStockPhoto/DNY59 Banana book author Dan Koeppel wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times yesterday that served as a banana primer for the uninititated (me, for instance). The piece was filled with utterly fascinating banana food-culture info, like the fact that Americans eat as many bananas as apples and oranges combined. Serious eaters, did you know that? I didn't. Koeppel rightfully professes astonishment that bananas are so cheap: "They're grown thousands of miles away, they must be transported in cooled containers, and even then they survive no more than two weeks after they're cut off the tree." And they're still less than a buck a pound in the stores. What gives? How can that be?...
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Most of you have probably seen this video before, but if not, behold the atheist's nightmare: the banana. Yes. ...Wait, what? This video explains how bananas are obviously God's creation, reasons including the way they fit perfectly in the grasp of a human hand, and how they have built-in "tabs" at the top that makes them easy to peel. Well, ignoring the thousands of years of banana cultivation by humans, I'm totally convinced! Watch the video after the jump....
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