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I tried to smoke banana peels as a teenager. It is still the biggest headache I have ever had. The pain. For days. On a side note, we tried to smoke almost ever

I tried to smoke banana peels as a teenager. It is still the biggest headache I have ever had. The pain. For days. On a side note, we tried to smoke almost everything we could set on fire. Nothing we tried came even close to the pain inflicted by banana peel. Actually it wasn't the peel we tried to smoke. I don't know the English term, but it was those long strings on the side of the banana we dried and smoked. I have been told it they are pure protein and that was the reason why we got that massive headache. I have not investigated if that is true.

schoen 8y ago
Native speaker of American English here—I've always just called them "strings", but Wikipedia says they're "phloem bundles". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phloem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phloem
andrewflnr 8y ago
...smoking protein gives you headaches? What? Why?
- kylek 8y ago
  Ripe bananas have a lot of tyramine.....I guess???
  - qwerty456127 8y ago
    Which can be active if taken with a MAOIs inhibitor and is outlawed in Florida.
the_clarence 8y ago
Hahaha. My friend did this as a kid as well. That was in 1998 maybe. Crazy.