Comments on: Potassium, Balance & Things That Don’t Suck

By: ssstephg

ssstephg — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:14:06 +0000

ha! well look at that! i’m gonna try it. i don’t usually have trouble opening my bananas but that’s pretty nifty. and i’ll be sure to pass this info on to the banana haters in my life. it might help sway some of them… ‘cept you still have to pop that black buttplug thing outta the end.

thanks for the tip, special K!

By: special k

special k — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:25:15 +0000

.. if you peel your banana from the bottom instead of the ‘top’, you won’t have the stringy problems

By: ssstephg

ssstephg — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:05:38 +0000

hmmn…
Do you s’pose they’re discriminating about who they let in?

By: ssstephg

ssstephg — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:04:50 +0000

I LOVE turkey bacon–the Louis Rich stuff distributed by Oscar Meyer! Yum in a strip! I also love that you were able to avert childhood scurvy, Andrew. Thank be to Gramps! A friend of mine told me his bad case of poison ivy was misdiagnosed as scurvy at the local ER one time. The local ER is a dump by the way. I didn’t enjoy my recent four hour adventure there one bit. Even had to listen to Glenn Beck in the waiting room. Another patient declared the forced Fox “news” was an attempt at torturing us all. He may not have been far off the mark. Mark my words, we’re on the mark with our banana appreciation! SOLIDARITY!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:42:34 +0000

P.S. Steph: I believe there is a town in Texas named “Normal”. I could be wrong. I’ve always thought it would be a worthwhile cause to go there just to take a picture beside the town sign.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:37:59 +0000

I love bananas myself. And now that I know a little more about muscle metabolism I try to eat about two a day. Now someone tells me the phenylketonurics in diet sodas (which I drink to keep my teeth from rotting out too quickly, more than for a reason of over “carbo-hydrating”, or getting fat), these are like ant poison, or Formic acid when they break down. The end effect is muscle tissue losing its dynamic of being pliant, nevermind the added effect of aging and being near fifty. There are other sources of potassium in foods. They just never had a Carmen Miranda character to glamourize them.

I have never found anything annoying about bananas. Well, never so annoying that I would complain about it. For a brief period I grew up in poverty where sometimes food was scarce and TV was plentiful. This would combine in the perfect storm for me of viewing a Charlie Chaplin movie where he is boiling a shoe to eat, and seriously considering the nutrient qualities of shoe leather at age 12. Oranges were manna from heaven that our grandfather would occasionally bring us in five pound bags. It was as if he knew we wouldn’t get scurvy eating them while my dad switched career paths. I even started eating the peelings on some of the larger oranges.

Nowadays the challenge is to cook up turkey bacon with egg whites out of a carton, but I have found a way to make a virtual corn tortilla sandwich with both using only the available grease from four slices of the pre-fab meat. The key ingredient is Zaachila Habanero sauce, which can be found at any Wal-Mart (around here anyway). Oh, that is good! Crunchy! Spicy! I wish I could make one for you all.