When you’re the ‘banana guy’, you’re blessed with special cheer: Gifts like these.
Item one is a massive bar of soap – about the size of a mango – with this lovely banana branding. On opening, it turns out to be a Portuguese-made beauty bar marked “confianca”, or “confidence”.
No banana scent, but the word “banana” was brought to us in the15th century by Portuguese traders, who found the fruit being grown at a town near the mouth of the Congo river by the same name.
That guy is going to get hurt.
Second on the list: this silicon “banana handle,” designed as a compact potholder. Slip the peel onto the handle of a hot skillet, and you won’t get burned. I tried it last night on a pot of spaghetti sauce, and it worked!
Thanks to the Thompson family for the loot.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
