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> We’re sure bananas would be fine served as a vegetable, or with bacon, but this is certainly not the role we would assign to them today. At least in Melbourn
by Rodeoclash 5y ago
> We’re sure bananas would be fine served as a vegetable, or with bacon, but this is certainly not the role we would assign to them today.
At least in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand it's not unusual at all to find pancakes or waffles with banana + maple syrup and bacon together.
https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/amp/ https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/amp/
- lostcolony 5y agoNot uncommon in the US to have bananas on pancakes, but the bacon -usually- is served as a side (unless you're getting an "Elvis", which would have peanut butter, bacon, and banana, which I have seen as a waffle or pancake option). But to the article, bacon wrapped bananas, standalone, aren't things any more.
- irrational 5y agoUsually I see bacon on donuts. Now I’m craving a maple bacon donut.
- rootusrootus 5y agoThe only good donut Voodoo ever made, and even then they generally did a crappy job of it. I'd rather just get a maple bar from the grocery store bakery and add bacon myself.
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- nwatson 5y agoProsciutto-wrapped cantaloupe is standard Italian fare (prosciutto e melone), I can't see bacon-wrapped banana unreasonably far from that. Going to try it tomorrow morning.
- morsch 5y agoAlso, Bacon-Wrapped Dates. But I suppose the question is not so much if it'd be any good, but whether it's common. And I've never seen bacon wrapped banana, either.
- namdnay 5y agonow you've got me wondering what is the subset of countries that both grow dates and eat bacon :)
- bprieto 5y agoEuropean mediterranian countries. Bacon wrapped dates were pretty common at parties in Spain. Then they were considered bad for your health because of the fat, and now they are considered bad for your health because of the sugar.
- namdnay 5y agoah ok a bit like the french used to do prunes wrapped in bacon. do the spanish grow dates? never seen a spanish date
- ghaff 5y agoBacon-wrapped dates are AFAIK a relatively recent thing in the US. Bacon-wrapped scallops--which are actually a bit hard to get right (i.e. both the bacon and the scallops baked reasonably)--were the more traditional cocktail party item.
- asicsp 5y agoVazhakkai Poriyal (made with raw bananas, vegetable side dish) is pretty common here in India.
- namdnay 5y agothose are plantains I think, not the "sweet bananas" referred to here
- p1necone 5y agoCooked green bananas (both actual plantains, and just unripe regular bananas) are used as starchy sides in a lot of cultures (mostly South America, Africa and the Caribbean afaik).
- alistairSH 5y agoI have fond memories of tostones(literally translates as toasted, but actually twice-fried) plantains from college. Long-time friend and then-roommate is Panamanian so we ate them frequently as an appetizer before (usually) a pork main.
- gavinray 5y agoMoved from Boulder to Miami and the one nice thing is that I can buy fried sweet plantains at every restaurant down here. Never know how delicious them shits were, and I'm not even a big banana fan.
- p1necone 5y agoI'm partial to fried spam, eggs and pancakes covered in maple syrup. If you want to get really wild, coat the spam in sugar before frying it at low-medium heat. It caramelizes around the outside and gets extra tasty.
- eps 5y agoSame URL, de-amped - https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/ https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/
- Ma8ee 5y agoNot to mention bananas on pizza. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sweden-banana-pizza/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sweden-banana-pizza/