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I once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana
by knice 9y ago
I once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana flavor. But I was told to add yellow color anyway.
- compiler-guy 9y agoThere is an old cooking adage that, "You eat with your eyes first." Making food aesthetically pleasing does add flavor to that first sample.
- jimmaswell 9y agoI saw something about a restaurant where the food is served in the dark a while ago, so that this can't happen.
- nocman 9y agoWow, I'm not sure I'd want to eat in a restaurant that purposefully prevented me from seeing what I was eating! xD
- FreeFull 9y agoThinking about it, it's weird that people expect the ice cream to be yellow anyway, since I can't say I've ever seen a banana with yellow flesh.
- jacobolus 9y agoHere are the bananas that were used when all of these recipes were originally written: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/images/may/musa/TARS17155-fruit.jpg http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/images/may/musa/TARS17155-fruit... Banana flavoring is also based on the flavor of Gros Michel bananas, which is why it doesn’t taste like the Cavendish bananas commonly available today. If you want to see a very yellow inside of a banana, get a very ripe plantain (completely black peel) and fry slices.