Just Plain Bananas....

[danemodsandy]

I may be the very last person on the planet to learn about this design, but I found one while thrift shopping today and thought it was cool. My kitchen is kind of late '50s through early '70s, and finding certain present-day necessities with the right retro look is not always easy. I had been doing without a banana holder, because those cheap white plastic ones are dog-butt-ugly, and the wooden ones aren't the right look for chez Sandy.

This one - a Pantry Works design from Spectrum - is chrome-plated steel rods, and it looks like what a banana holder would have looked like in 1958 if anyone had had a banana holder then, which they didn't. It blends well with my chrome and other silver-metal stuff.

I'm kind of liking it. And it's nice to have the bananas up off the counter. If anyone envies me, it's still available new from Amazon, albeit for a bit more than mine cost:

Amazon.com

 

[hooverwheelaway]

And, if you really want to round off your Banana experience -- be sure to get one of these! 

 

A banana slicer! 

 

Seriously, take some time to read some of the user reviews on Amazon.  They are hysterical!

http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-571-Banana-Slicer/dp/B0047E0EII/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395929336&sr=8-1&keywords=banana+slicer

 

[petek]

Protect your banana with a Banana Bunker

http://www.bananabunker.com/

 

[perc-o-prince]

Fred- THANKS for that! I nearly wet myself and I only made it through the first half-dozen reviews!

Chuck

 

[perc-o-prince]

Just got through page 5 of reviews. I was literally laughing out loud at some of them. Take Fred's advice and go read some of them!!!!

Chuck

 

[ken]

I checked them out yesterday. They are very good.

 

[circlew]

Banana accessories

are something I'll never need - I can't stand bananas!

 

[xraytech]

I may be missing something, but why would one need a banana holder?

BTW /Tupperware makes a banana keeper to keep your banana protected and virtually air proofed in your lunch

 

[danemodsandy]

Sam:

Bananas hanging on a holder are not subject to bruising from lying on the counter or from things getting bumped into them. Really no more to it than that.

 

[xraytech]

Thanks for the info Sandy, I just never understood the need.
I personally never buy bananas to eat, I get them to let over ripen for banana bread, or for this weekends adventure, a hummingbird cake

 

[maytagbear]

According to Mr. Keillor,

"Bananas have it all, they make berries seem banal!"

Lawrence/Maytagbear