I went to the farmer's market a week or so ago and, since it was the end of the day, most of the vendors were PUSHING their produce.
25 cents for a perfectly ripe avocado? SOLD!
The banana man was no exception. He was standing in front of his stand animatedly pushing his bananas toward people and yelling "Bananas! One dollar!!"
Now I needed bananas, and they looked pretty good, so I asked how many bananas one could hope to obtain for a dollar.
"As many bananas as you want. One dollar!"
WHAT?!?!?
"So I could have ALL the bananas on this stand for one dollar if I wanted?"
(Vendor looking me up and down) "Are you going to EAT that many bananas?"
Touche banana vendor, touche.
I didn't take home all the bananas but, true to form, my eyes were bigger than my stomach. Brown spots came, and around Friday I was left a small pile of about-to-rot ripe bananas. So I made banana bread (duh). Best possible way to deal with overripe bananas.