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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>Video taste test: Ugandan banana gin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waragi is to Ugandans what tequila is to Mexicans, vodka is to Russians, and Diet Coke is to Sarah Palin. I bought a bottle during a stopover at Entebbe airport, and conducted a video taste test when I got to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I&#8217;d been in the backcountry under rough conditions for a couple of weeks when I recorded this, which might explain my enthusiasm. The stuff is rotgut &#8211; which isn&#8217;t meant to diminish the importance of bananas in Uganda, which are used not just for hooch, but  as a primary source of calories. People would starve without them, and the fruit is threatened by disease, making the nation ground zero for banana research. Still, you could run a moped on this stuff. Which is more than you could say for Diet Coke.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Recipes]]></category>
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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>Video Review: Pudding Dreams. Shattered.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banana pudding, reviewed on video by people with way too much time on their hands. &#8220;People,&#8221; of course,  meaning me. If there were any place on earth I would rather live than sunny Los Angeles, it would the Kozy Shack. In this magical locale, the world&#8217;s most delicious dessert treats are made: they&#8217;re all-natural, always fresh and creamy, and available in at your friendly local grocery store. The Kozy Shack company is based in Hicksville, Long Island, New York &#8211; just a few miles from where I grew up &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been eating gorging myself on their products since I was a kid. The company&#8217;s trio of rice puddings &#8211; original, cinnamon-raisin, and the richer, more vanilla-y European-style &#8211; are the supermarket category&#8217;s equivalent to Haagen Dazs ice cream. They put the crap that Jell-O foists on the American public to shame (the General Foods subsidiary recently dropped an ad circular in my mailbox that described its product as &#8220;contemporary.&#8221; Creepy.) Kozy Shack has been expanding lately. Seasonal flavors like pumpkin and peach have been added. My vegan friends love the company&#8217;s soy-based products. On the other hand, I don&#8217;t know what to make of the &#8220;probiotic&#8221; SimplyWell brand extension, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make all of these banana puddings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then invite me to your house. Traditional, with Nilla Wafers, here.  Mexican, with TORTILLA CHIPS, in a foofy version, here, and a basic version, here.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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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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