BS: New take on 'musical fruit'

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 07:25 AM

I subjected some ripened fruit to the YMCA song, and saw no difference...in the state of the fruits, that is?

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 08:48 AM

As to the yodeling pickle, I believe that the cucumber is properly classified as a fruit. Just as a tomato is.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 11:47 AM

Little girl in school: "Yes, I can spell banana, but I don't know when to stop."

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

(Uncle Dave...my wife likes those 'still slightly green' bananas, also. I am considering playing some slow waltzes for them.)

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Becca72
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 10:23 AM

Not fruit, per se, but I hear tell Sinsull has a yodeling pickle...

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 12:12 AM

Actually, they did test against other types of music, according to the article.

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 03:27 PM

More info than you probably need about bananas.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 03:27 PM

Dave, you're eating unripe fruit if they're Cavendish bananas that aren't yellow - they are perfect when they have the brown "sugar spots." But they don't work as well for ocarinas.

The plantain bananas (plantanos) are a firmer more vegetable-like banana and probably would work yellow as well as green. And they need to be cooked before you eat them.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 02:23 PM

In the past several months our Nanners have been either too green or too ripe and usually too small. 59p (CDN) a pound here... what are youse paying?

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 02:19 PM

I like middling-green bananas. Much better flavor than the yellow or (god help us) the brown-freckled overripe bananas. The bananas in the grocery store are usually much too ripe. In about three days they will be too soft, and too bland.

Even if they are middling-green, I'd like to know how to keep them from ripening further. What kind of music would that be?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 01:40 PM

Thanks Melissa! The guy has an infectious smile.

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 01:02 PM

LOL, Melissa! I think maybe I have heard some of those notes in Mozart...not necessarily in that order.

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Melissa
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 12:52 PM

Maybe this is a Mozart Banana?


banana

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 12:51 PM

Why would Judas Priest run away from your tomatoes?...oh...wait...never mind..

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 12:25 PM

I thought Spaw might have started this.

Here's a tidbit about "Yes, We Have No Bananas" that includes some interesting trivia.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 12:18 PM

I tried vine-ripening tomatoes to "Black Sabbath" and "Judas Priest" but they ran away.

Subject: BS: New take on 'musical fruit'
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 10:22 AM

I was tempted to put this above the line...but...

We all know the joke/poem about beans, but the Japanese....ever on the cutting edge of technology.... have 'determined' that Mozart is beneficial in ripening bananas... and other things.




My enquiring mind wants to know if they did double-blind tests with other music....like, what would happen if they played "Yes, We Have NO Bananas".