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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Banana Stupid</title>
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		<title>I Declare War on the Banana Diet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homemade banana ice cream sammiches, Image from chubbyhubby.net We don&#8217;t have to sit by while the &#8220;Morning Banana Diet&#8221; marches across the planet, raising prices for the fruit and making emaciated zombies of us all. Here&#8217;s a brand new recipe &#8211; from the Chubby Hubby Blog &#8211; for homemade banana ice cream, served between brownie cookies &#8211; that I hope will be the beginning of a massive counter-strike against the craze that begin a few months ago in Japan. Banana tip: freeze them when they go brown. They keep for months, and you can use them to make all kinds of delicious stuff. Next in the arsenal: this banana pudding recipe &#8211; made with vanilla wafers &#8211; from the chitterlings.com soul food site (the recipe is almost at the bottom of the page.) We&#8217;re going to make some this week. Report, with pictures, to come. Thanks to my Dad for suggesting the recipe.]]></description>
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		<title>Insane Banana Diets Can Also Raise Prices &#8211; Which Proves Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of folks emailed me news items on this. Japan has gone nuts for the &#8220;Morning Banana Diet,&#8221; which promises to help you lose weight with this formula: you start in the morning with a breakfast of bananas and room-temperature water, then eat whatever you want &#8211; other than desert &#8211; the rest of the day. You can&#8217;t eat later than six in the evening. you don&#8217;t need to exercise, and people are going nuts. A half-dozen books on the diet have become best sellers, and the price of the fruit has shot up to over $3.00 per pound (more than quadruple what we pay in the U.S., and well over triple the average price in a Tokyo supermarket.) The backstory? An opera singer told a talk show she&#8217;d lost over 30 pounds on the banana diet. The craze began from there. Happy dieter, from a Reuters pic that accompanied a Time magazine story on the diet. A spokesperson for Dole &#8211; the nation&#8217;s largest banana importer (second largest in the world) &#8211; told Great Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail that this was &#8220;the first time bananas have been so scarce. Right now, we are finding ourselves unable to meet demand.&#8221; There [...]]]></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>Heroic Clerk Saves Store from Banana Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Battles Banana-Wielding Thug. In my book, I note that one observer described the banana as a &#8220;weapon of conquest&#8221; in Latin America. This doesn&#8217;t apply in Maryland, where a would-be thief attempted to use the fruit to rob a 7-Eleven &#8211; and was denied by a brave clerk. Incredibly (or maybe not so incredibly), this isn&#8217;t the first time this has happened &#8211; and the last time, the guy got eighteen months in the hoosegow for his malfeasance (third item down.)]]></description>
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		<title>Co-opt. Subvert. Destroy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bigger threat to the banana than any disease. The world&#8217;s favorite fruit is the cheapest and healthiest alternative to junk food. So what would the junk food industry do? This: Gotta go try one.]]></description>
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		<title>Baboon Prefers Bananas over Kittehs. Thank Goodness.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though one&#8217;s gotta say, kitteh don&#8217;t look too happeh.]]></description>
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