The Banana

I love bananas.

I don't know why some people hate it, but I just love eating bananas. I heard that if you eat bananas before a certain sport, for example, TENNIS, it would boost your energy ten-folds.

We all know bananas have certain nutritional values and it helps with certain digestive functions of our body. Besides eating the banana alone, we can eat with something else, like ice cream for instance, which is made popular by the Banana Split. We could deep fry it which we call Goreng Pisang, or we could drink it with milk which we call Banana Shake. Elvis Presley's favourite snack is banana peanut butter sandwich, which of course we all know gave him his heart attacks.

But other than that, bananas have many other uses. For instance, banana leaves have been used as plates in certain cultures. Some boats have been shaped like a banana. The banana peel has been used by countless stuntmen in movies for slipping and if any actor should slip and fall, it has to be the banana peel's fault, never a papaya or a orange peel. And should you see anyone in a movie ransacking a rubbish bin, 99% of the time, there will be a banana peel as a prop. The banana has also made guest appearance in certain currencies during World War 2.

The banana is a staple food for some animals. The chimpanzees, as usual, eat bananas alongside their peanuts and cigars. When the first monkey was sent into space, they packed for him a banana for his re-entry into the atmosphere. The elephants love long bananas and the monkeys love the shorter ones. The zebras love green bananas but the birds prefer the yellow ones.

The banana, as a word as been use in certain languages also. The Cantonese, as what I know, would say "You go eat Banana" instead of asking you to FO. In most cultures, the banana, because of its perculiar shape has been used as a symbol of a certain genital of a certain species. I know of a China girl whose name is Banana and I know a group of British girlfriends who called themselves Bananarama. There is also Banana Man, who is Superman's neighbour and there is Banana Woman who is also a neighbour of the Banana Man.

So although I don't play certain sports like, Tennis, I still love my bananas. What about you Jinxy?