Moldy Bread, Rotten Bananas and Nutella vs. Peanut Butter

Bread is pretty cheap here, but it goes moldy fairly quickly. Less preservatives I suppose. I always buy bread but usually forget about it for a week until I need to eat a late dinner and there’s nothing left in the house. Then I see the bread, get excited, only to realize that it’s started to grow mold. I usually throw it out, but sometimes, those times when I’m really hungry, I examine each piece until I find one with little or no mold, then have a sandwich (I cut the mold off). 

Bananas are just bananas here. The problem with bananas is universal, doesn’t matter where you are. You’re in a store, see some and think “yeah, a banana is a good, healthy snack. I can eat them in the morning, or bring one to work for later.” So you buy the bananas. I like them really green. You get home, maybe you eat one, but the other five sit on the counter. Two days later you haven’t eaten any of them and to your dismay they’re already brown and mushy. And then, who likes a mushy banana?

I have a fruit fly infestation in my kitchen. It’s a summer thing here, so far the only sign of summer. The weather really sucks this year. We’ve had maybe a week total of nice weather. The other months, just grey skies and rain. And, of course, the black swarm of insects in my kitchen. Everything was reasonably under control for a while, just a few of them buzzing around every now and then. But a week ago I opened the garbage can and hundreds of them flew out and scattered across the kitchen. All over the walls, the ceiling and the cabinets. I have a nice spider couple living in the kitchen also, which is nice in this situation, but they live quite uselessly under the lowest shelf below the sink. Fortunately I was informed about a fly trap using a cup, a paper funnel and some banana slices. I built that baby right up and within a day had most of the little bastards feasting on some banana, and, more importantly, TRAPPED! Problem solved, for the most part. 

Today was a merging of the three. I had some bread that was about to go moldy any second, some brown and nearly too mushy bananas, and some roaming flies undoubtedly looking for a place to drop their loads of larvae. There’s all these tidbits about Drosophila sex flying through my mind right now. I know more than I care to. Also about duck penises, but that’s a different story.

What to do with bread and bananas? Why not have a competition? I’m sure I’ve had bananas and Nutella in a crepe or something. I know I enjoy a good peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich. But which is better?

Answer: Obviously, they are both delicious. It would be cliche of me to praise Nutella. It’s been done multiple times on numerous occasions. Chocolate and banana go well together. So there’s nothing to not like here. I can, however, imagine someone, somewhere, being suspicious of peanut butter and banana, or banana and honey. Or even peanut butter and honey for that matter. Well, those toppings are no less arbitrary than jelly, and a PB&J is a staple. I would recommend that a peanut butter banana and honey sammich be a staple too, because that thing is awesome and the winner of this competition. Yeah man, get some crunchy PB, cut you up some banana and drizzle some honey on top. That’s a tasty treat. 

Wonder how many fly larvae I just ate.