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