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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Banana Split Watch</title>
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		<title>Blue Bunny Banana Split &#8211; FOUND!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks ago, I lamented that this possibly-magical product wasn&#8217;t available near my Los Angeles home. It still isn&#8217;t, but it was in lovely Tilton, New Hampshire. Below is a video review. [Mobile posted with iBlogger]]]></description>
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		<title>DO. WANT. (Can&#8217;t. Have.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is amazing. Banana Split in a Kit, and from Blue Bunny, the maker of ice cream novelties like the Bomb Pop and Power Puff Girls bars. And this is even more amazing  - you use the pre-packaged work of genius as raw material for an even more splendid creation: The official name for this product is the &#8220;Personals Banana Split.&#8221; Blue Bunny is a midwestern brand, mostly, though we get their fantastic ice cream sandwiches on the west coast (see the note, below.) But when I did a search for retailers offering this unbelievably exciting item &#8211; my radius was 100 miles &#8211; I got this heartbreaking message: I&#8217;m sad. In fact, the locator indicates that there&#8217;s not a single store selling this product in the entire state of California. I checked Nevada, too. I didn&#8217;t get lucky until Utah, where Blue Bunny has a manufacturing plant. Now, that note: I applaud Blue Bunny&#8217;s innovation one zillion percent, but I have a question concerning the three-flavored  and strangely-spelled &#8220;Neapolitan&#8221; variety of their ice-cream sandwiches. What on earth made you guys put strawberry as one of  the outside flavors? This is nuts, and here&#8217;s why. Strawberry ice cream sucks. Only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gourmet banana splits are possible.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the last native-New Yorker banana split I reviewed, this one actually looks unbelievably, beautifully, completely awesome (though being a native New Yorker myself, I still prefer Carvel.) Still, you pay NYC prices for this masterpiece: $14.95. The scoop &#8211; har &#8211; on this (as well as the picture)  came from the serious eats website. Sugar Rush: Banana Split at Blue Ribbon Bakery &#124; Serious Eats : New York.]]></description>
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		<title>No ice cream? NOT a banana split!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 09:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has been very kind to me, but one has to say that a banana split where: There&#8217;s no strawberry, pineapple, or chocolate sauce. There&#8217;s something called &#8220;ganache.&#8221; There are no nuts. The dish is not &#8220;boat&#8221; shaped. AND ICE CREAM IS FREAKIN&#8217; OPTIONAL!!!! has to be a bunch of hooey and snobbery. Get it together. Really. Here&#8217;s NYT&#8217;s &#8220;banana split,&#8221; which is suitable only for fellows like the gentleman pictured below. . Snob. Here&#8217;s the real deal at BananasWeb, and the kind of fella who&#8217;d enjoy such a treat. Baby Gorilla. Not snob.]]></description>
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		<title>The Banana Splits: A Freaktastic Television Show Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: PR Newswire Readers from other countries, you&#8217;ll just have to take my word for it: &#8220;The Banana Splits&#8221; was one of the strangest things ever presented to children as entertainment. It was an NBC show with costumes created by Sid and Marty Kroft, who might best be described as Walt Disney, split into two by genetic mutation, dropped into a vat of ergot, and unleashed onto the world with at least temporary carte blanche to produce television for adolescents and potheads. Since I was the former, and the grownups in my house were the latter, I have warm memories of Saturday morning gatherings to watch this program. Four costumed creatures made up &#8220;The Banana Splits&#8221; (the name came from the rock band they formed; their jingle &#8211; also known as the &#8216;Tra La La&#8217; song &#8211; was so genuinely catchy that it was appropriated as the hook for Bob Marley&#8217;s &#8220;Buffalo Soldiers.&#8221;) The quartet are Fleegle the Dog, Drooper the Lion, Bingo the Gorilla, and Snorky the Elephant. They live in a Banana Pad and drive in their Banana Buggy, which is more than most people in the banana world can say. In a press release, Warner Bros. executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Splits of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE BANANA WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CONVENIENCE FOODS. It fit nicely into the brown bags and lunch pails of an America where city life was rapidly taking over from the rural existence most people had known in the country’s earlier days. The fruit was agreeable to just about everyone, from infants to old folks. It was also becoming the object of culinary innovation (or at least the creation of memorable treats.) In 1904, David Strickler, an apprentice pharmacist and soda fountain operator at a drugstore in Latrobe, Pennsylvania began serving a concoction made of three scoops of ice cream nestled between halves of a banana. His recipe for the dessert was one banana, cut lengthwise; scoops of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream; a drenching of chocolate, pineapple, and then strawberry sauce; and a final sprinkling of nuts and a trio of whipped cream dollops topped with cherries. He charged ten cents for the creation and even had special boat-shaped dishes manufactured for serving the extra-large sundae.       Three years later, a version of the delicacy appeared at a restaurant owned by E. R. Hazard, 275 miles away, in Wilmington, Ohio. Hazard called his creation a “banana split.” Both [...]]]></description>
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