Okay. Let me get this straight.
This banana pudding:
has absolutely no BANANAS in it!
Here's the list of ingredients from the manufacturer's own website:
INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, DEXTROSE (FROM CORN), MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE AND TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (FOR THICKENING), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES (PREVENT FOAMING), YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, BHA (PRESERVATIVE).
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What the -- ?!?
Are they counting "Yellow 5 and Yellow 6" as banana? Those are dyes to make something look banana-ish. What is this world coming to?
I'm with you, Dearie. Back in my day, we made pudding with the ingredient in the title... Banana pudding had bananas in it. Chocolate pudding had chocolate in it. Vanilla pudding had vanilla in it. Hasty pudding had, er, um...
But it wasn't very good, and I didn't want to eat it. So I would slip it under the table to her dog, whose name was... what was that dog's name? I've totally forgotten it. Professor Bananington, did you have any pets when you were growing up?
With all due respect, Gramnana, this is MY post, and it's about banana pudding, not about childhood pets!
(sheesh)
Ahem
And most particularly to Professor Bananington, for his excellent exposé.
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Zut alors! Zees is a great honor, and I humbly accept. It is most true, I make ze best Hasty Pudding, what can I say?
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I hate the fact that they or getting away from natural ingredients. On the other side of the story, though natural ingredients are getting away from flavor. There is a reason for this. Food is being treated different. Herbicides pesticides, etc. One huge factor that is robbing bananas of their flavor is the way they are harvested. Fruit gains its sugar and flavor in the last week or 2 of its life on the tree. In that time, it is flooded with sugar and all of the natural flavorings. This time on the tree is crucial. If you pull a banana off of the tree that contains these natural flavorings, they taste amazing. Bananas and other fruit are being picked while They are still green. This Does not allow the fruit to receive its natural flavorings and sugar. They are then being stored in warehouses and shipped to the stores green. these ripen in house. I could go on for hours about food. The hormones in meat, etc. I do not want to go to far off subject but you can research it on your own if you like.
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This is, unfortunately, true. Commercialized and Big Farming food just isn't food the way Earth intended. Thankfully, there are some initiatives to return to more natural practices, and also areas of the world where they never stopped.
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Reason number ONE of why I try to cook everything with natural products and by myself, not buying everything in boxes like those. It feels more like you're intoxicating your body than feeding yourself. A big No-No for me. More banana pudding made at home, and less Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 pudding! Because that's what it's in that box, right?
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You're obviously a banana-lover, and don't like fake dyes any more than we do. Yay! Thanks for stopping by, @gellyarenas!
Here's a snack for you:
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That's JUST BANANAS!
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Oh. I guess that's us. Technically, we ARE bananas. Okay then. Glad you stopped by, @hotsauceislethal
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we at @ocd love bananas :) glad to nominate this for ocd-resteem!
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Thanks for stopping by, @jznsamuel!
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AAhhh haha haha haha! LOL LOL!! Brilliant! Can't wait to read more of your posts! Upvoted and resteemed!
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Silly, every college student knows that you have to add your own fresh banana slices to the instant pudding mix and then pour it into a bowl lined with Vanilla Wafers for your very own banana pudding just like gramma used to make. 😎
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Well, that makes a little more sense. But please don't say anything to Professor Bananington... he's a little touchy on the subject of banana pudding. 🍌
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Got it, you can count on me. 🤐
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This is in no way a "payment" for your silence on this matter. Just consider it a snack:
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Yum, thanks!
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Interesting delivery. I must say I haven't come across a blog quite like this.
It's terrible, isn't it?... that our young ones are being fed the banana pudding kool-aid.
A few years back I lived within fair walking distance of my sister. One snowy day I made REAL banana pudding and then I called my sister to let her know I was walking to her house with some banana pudding. Everyone was excited. I got there and when the pudding was served up, all of the sudden it appeared the children were not... really... wanting to eat it. When asked if something was wrong, one of them said "it has bananas in it". .. .crickets .... and I ask if that wasn't what was normally in banana pudding, at which time I was informed the only banana pudding they were use too was the kind served at school, which of course, was this fake flavored kind. Ew ! LOL
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Thank you for reading and commenting, @jacey.boldart. I'm not on Steemit much lately, so I just saw your comment. Nice of you to stop by!
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