Everything's coming up bananas
Warning: the contents of this blog may surprise the sensibilities of some readers!
Standing at the cash of a local outdoor store yesterday, I surveyed the copious quanties of quirky items serious outdoor types might drool over. You know, the sort of thing that you throw in the direction of the sales clerk at the last minute - lip balm, sew-on Canadian flags, waterproof wallets.
Then may eye caught on something unexpected - a box of brightly coloured plastic objects, each suspiciously resembling an all-weather sex toy. I did a double take. Do campers really pack this sort of thing?
Oops. Get my mind out of the gutter. They are neon, snap-shut containers for a banana!
Yes, it's true.
Now, I know how sacred the banana is to all endurance athletes but who could imagine that someone would revere it so much as to design and manufacture a banana travel case?
By complete coincidence someone sent me an email this weekend outlining the incredible anti-depression, PMS eliminating, iron boosting, blood pressure reducing, brain power enhancing, not to mention constipation and hangover smashing properties of the not so humble banana.
Really with all the outstanding life force provided by just one banana, I guess it would be more reasonable for me to wonder where the banana travel case has been all my life.
So, what I'd like to know is how many of you knew there was such a thing as a banana travel case? Even better, let us know if you have used one. At $5.99 I'd like to get a reliable product endorsement!
Labels: Gear
posted by Wow Power Walking Founder @ 7:54 PM
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7 Comments:
What a great idea! Never heard or seen of it, but I would buy one. Many times I have taken a Banana on the road for a race or hike or 'snack' on the run to do errands, and they do not survive very well after they have left their comfortable 'counter' home. They do have delicate constitutions. Did you see them at Hikers Haven?
Interesting.
i have seen them before and was just as flabbergasted by them as you were. Maybe I should have had one last summer. As Rick and I, plus the dog, were doing a training run last fall I stepped backwards over a rock and squished a banana in my pack. Very mushy. It was the first and last time that I have taken a banana. Maybe now I can. lol
I came across this item in 2005 at Velotique Cycle Shop. They work quite well.
Yes, Laurel, I saw them at Hiker's Haven. Even though they work according to some posts, I'm not sure I'd want to be seen with one dangling off my fuel belt!
Too funny! Yes, you definitely would not want it in your pocket either.... Watch it though, this a public forum coach..:)
BANANA GUARDS!!! I have one and LOVE it. I use it almost every day to bring a banana to work (much to the amusement of my colleagues - they've had lots of fun with it). You can buy them at Sparrow's Luggage on Kerr Street for $6 in lots of colours, it fits almost all bananas. You'll love it!
You can read more here: http://www.bananaguard.com/
(no joke!)
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