The banana is a fruit, typically ~9” long and ~2” thick, gently curved, wrapped in a peel that is bright yellow when ripe—a green color indicates it’s not yet ripe and brown-to-black means it’s overripe. The fruit itself is often a pale yellow or even white and sometimes has darker spots where the fruit has become overripe. Bananas are eaten by some herbivores and some humans, either by itself or as an ingredient in something else, like banana bread. Because the inside of the peel can be quite slippery, its use as a comic gag in cartoons as a tool to make someone slip and fall by stepping on it has become the stuff of legend. Its phallic shape has also made it useful in sex education for the purpose of demonstrating how to wear a condom and in general for the mimicry of sexual acts like fellatio and penetration. It is also one of Ron Swanson’s greatest frenemies.
With care,
~ Grigori