A bit of a random thought, but I was thinking about this for a while while I worked at starbucks, why I didn't like their banana bread, and I eventually put together that they could probably never legally put the kinds of borderline inedible bananas in them that my dad does in his because he's the kind of guy who couldn't fathom throwing a banana away. I've only seen him do it one time and it was a banana he'd put in the freezer to make banana bread that he forgot about for probably 5 years (shoved in the back and found when they went to scrape some of the ice out of the back), that had somehow managed to grow a single, tiny spot of mold. He looked so sad. There's no way he wasn't thinking about cutting around it lmaooo.

Anyways, I think one of the things that's the most interesting about it too is that even now... people WANT to make it with at least kind of gross bananas, because it actually just tastes better that way. I was so surprised when I found out someone I knew bought bananas and deliberately let them age a bit on their countertop, I just thought everyone had an arsenal of rotting bananas in their freezer for use whenever they were feeling up to making banana bread LMAOOOO.

Sorry for the kinda long, random comment 😅

I think it's so great that bananas only get better for bread the older they get. they get both mushier AND sweeter with time-- our ancestors were really onto something when they worked that one out. maybe the comfort of a sweet, soft, hearty, cake-like bread was by design in a society where small comforts were hard to come by

The culinary equivalent of the discovery of penicillin.