Banana vs Strawberry (the better fruit part II)

[Redz]

The apple vs orange thread ended up bringing up so many fascinating points that I thought I'd throw another round of fruit debate at you all.  I thought long and hard about which tasty morsels to choose as Round 2's combatants.  While banana and strawberry may seem to be from opposite ends of the fruit spectrum they are quite often paired up to make a yummy treat,

For me this ones easy, as I consider the banana the king of the fruit world.  It's a nice filler between meals, goes great on cereal, as a dessert, in a smoothie.

The only drawback I can see against the banana is that its not the most refreshing fruit when you're thirsty.

Love a nice ripe strawberry, but I've got to with the banana as the better fruit.

The banana also has many useful aspects as a humorous prop...The slippery banana peel on the floor trick...The banana phone joke...

BANANAS!

[Edgar]

Something like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8W-Fxh3hbs

[Steve Weinman]

The apple vs orange thread ended up bringing up so many fascinating points that I thought I'd throw another round of fruit debate at you all.  I thought long and hard about which tasty morsels to choose as Round 2's combatants.  While banana and strawberry may seem to be from opposite ends of the fruit spectrum they are quite often paired up to make a yummy treat,

For me this ones easy, as I consider the banana the king of the fruit world.  It's a nice filler between meals, goes great on cereal, as a dessert, in a smoothie.

The only drawback I can see against the banana is that its not the most refreshing fruit when you're thirsty.

Love a nice ripe strawberry, but I've got to with the banana as the better fruit.

The banana also has many useful aspects as a humorous prop...The slippery banana peel on the floor trick...The banana phone joke...

BANANAS!

And don't forget, my clownish friend, perhaps the greatest banana prank of all: Eddie Murphy's banana-in-the-tailpipe antics to the dismay of Taggart and Rosewood as Axel Foley in "Beverly Hills Cop."  Definitely a favorite.

But with that said, I'd caution that strawberries can answer right back to your first three points: I've cut them into my cereal many a time, had them in desserts (I live around the corner from bakers who make a killer strawberry rhubarb pie) and I would go so far as to maintain that a top-notch strawberry smoothie bests a top-notch banana smoothie.

That said, I should confess that as good as strawberry rhubarb pie is, it probably doesn't top banana cream pie.

And I've spent nearly my entirely life playing basketball with a guy who brings bananas to eat between games for their potassium value, and I must admit, I've become quite a booster of the between-pickup-games banana.

I think this could be the toughest match-up you come up with of the fruit world, Redz....and Dannon may agree, so much so that the yogurt company once (still?) featured strawberry banana yogurt.  It didn't quite measure up to their world-class coffee flavor, but it was pretty good in its own right.

I'm abstaining from the vote for now until I see some further evidence on both sides...

-sw

[Edgar]

The apple vs orange thread ended up bringing up so many fascinating points that I thought I'd throw another round of fruit debate at you all.  I thought long and hard about which tasty morsels to choose as Round 2's combatants.  While banana and strawberry may seem to be from opposite ends of the fruit spectrum they are quite often paired up to make a yummy treat,

For me this ones easy, as I consider the banana the king of the fruit world.  It's a nice filler between meals, goes great on cereal, as a dessert, in a smoothie.

The only drawback I can see against the banana is that its not the most refreshing fruit when you're thirsty.

Love a nice ripe strawberry, but I've got to with the banana as the better fruit.

The banana also has many useful aspects as a humorous prop...The slippery banana peel on the floor trick...The banana phone joke...

BANANAS!

And don't forget, my clownish friend, perhaps the greatest banana prank of all: Eddie Murphy's banana-in-the-tailpipe antics to the dismay of Taggart and Rosewood as Axel Foley in "Beverly Hills Cop."  Definitely a favorite.

But with that said, I'd caution that strawberries can answer right back to your first three points: I've cut them into my cereal many a time, had them in desserts (I live around the corner from bakers who make a killer strawberry rhubarb pie) and I would go so far as to maintain that a top-notch strawberry smoothie bests a top-notch banana smoothie.

That said, I should confess that as good as strawberry rhubarb pie is, it probably doesn't top banana cream pie.

And I've spent nearly my entirely life playing basketball with a guy who brings bananas to eat between games for their potassium value, and I must admit, I've become quite a booster of the between-pickup-games banana.

I think this could be the toughest match-up you come up with of the fruit world, Redz....and Dannon may agree, so much so that the yogurt company once (still?) featured strawberry banana yogurt.  It didn't quite measure up to their world-class coffee flavor, but it was pretty good in its own right.

I'm abstaining from the vote for now until I see some further evidence on both sides...

-sw

I rest my case

[dark_lord]

my vote:  banana!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypLIOpaPbsg&feature=related

[kw10]

I love strawberry flavoured icecream and other strawberry dessert, but I'm not a BIG dessert man unfortunately. Banana goes well from breakfast to bedtime snack, and it actually fills you (more than strawberries anyway) and gives you good energy and great for the body, that's another vote for the B-fruit

[Edgar]

unless we have a fan here


I dont think so.


this is just too easy R.

[Roy Hobbs]

I'm definitely on the side of this argument, but I'm going with strawberries.  Strawberry ice cream, strawberry milk, strawberry daiquiris, strawberry shortcake...  all are solid.  I happen to think that bananas are a bit overrated; I like them, but don't love them.

[Kwhit10]

By themselves strawberries are better.

But one of my favorite things to drink is a chocolate/banana milkshake. So this is a tough one.

[Edgar]

I'm definitely on the side of this argument, but I'm going with strawberries.  Strawberry ice cream, strawberry milk, strawberry daiquiris, strawberry shortcake...  all are solid.  I happen to think that bananas are a bit overrated; I like them, but don't love them.

hey Roy keep yourself to cs talk...        

Just for the record u have a point
Strawberry is better when u mix it with something
Straight
Banana is superior...
Man i dominate this topic.....

lol I just read KW comment seems like we disagree there...lol

maybe is just I dont like sour fruits

[Steve Weinman]

By themselves strawberries are better.

But one of my favorite things to drink is a chocolate/banana milkshake. So this is a tough one.

I'm not the world's biggest Steak-n-Shake fan, but to your point, Kwhit, they make a mean "Banocolate" side-by-side shake.  It's a good one.

-sw

[seeingreen34]

Banana. For one simple reason.

The strawberry you eat is not really a fruit or a berry but is the enlarged receptacle of the flower.

http://www.bouquetoffruits.com/fruit-facts/strawberry-facts.html

And what makes this better fruit debate even weirder is that not only is a strawberry not a berry but a banana technically is a berry.  

http://www.fcs.okstate.edu/cnep/ask/answers/banana.htm

And bananas can be put in a sandwich with peanut better.

[Redz]

                  "Even I like bananas better"

[zerophase]

straight up bananas.

[kw10]

Banana. For one simple reason.

The strawberry you eat is not really a fruit or a berry but is the enlarged receptacle of the flower.

http://www.bouquetoffruits.com/fruit-facts/strawberry-facts.html

And what makes this better fruit debate even weirder is that not only is a strawberry not a berry but a banana technically is a berry.  

http://www.fcs.okstate.edu/cnep/ask/answers/banana.htm

And bananas can be put in a sandwich with peanut better.

Whhhaaaaa

Now that brings up another point, strawberries make a great jam (or jelly is the same I think), which you can also put in a peanut butter sandwich, I'm sure the Celtics will choose the Strawberries over bananas for this reason.



but it baffles me why Brian is wearing a banana suit? Maybe bananas are just better...