I just had this weird memory of my bio mom feeding me a chopped up banana in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and milk poured over it, like cold cereal except minus the cereal. I've never eaten this as a teen or an adult, and I forgot all about it until just now. Is this something that other people eat too? Just curious.

I have never eaten this before, but my mum used to chop up a banana put it in a bowl and spinkle sugar over it. I think it was her way of trying to encourage me to eat something that was good and healthy for me. I never used to like bananas and I still don't - but my mums way of trying was by putting sugar on it - but even with her efforts it still didn't work. Bless her for trying though xx

Hi, Orange,
Copped up banana, with milk and sugar. Sounds good.
I've never eaten this either, without cereal added to it.
Either I read the answer previous to this one wrong, or DJ said she hadn't, then said she had! Anyway, it does sound good.

I have enver had it with milk - that's what I was trying to say - sorry! Very tired, not really with it.

Hey, DJ,
It's hard sometimes to read everything; I do it, too.
Hope you get some rest, and hope you have a great day.
Best wishes.

Cheers Fredg

Thanks guys.. hmmm. Weird. I wonder if my mom made it up herself? I searched on Google for a while last night and couldn't find anything about it, either.

Hi all

Yes. I can remember having banana with milk as a child - I think it may have been one of the earliest and cheapest fresh fruits available in the post war days.

On a similar refrain, one use of bananas I brought back to the UK with me from Brazil was banana plus any other fruits available, "blitzed" with milk - (we never added sugar). The kids loved it and it is as popular these days with thr grand-kids. We have always used the Brazilian term "vitaminas" but of course it is more commonly known as "smoothies" these days. (Wish I had had the idea of marketing it!! ) ;)

Oh thanks Jonegy! It's not a big deal really but it makes me feel better to know someone else has heard of this too!

I had this as a kid in the late 40's - early 50's, it definitely was the cheapest kind of "fresh fruit" everything else was canned (postwar rationing).
True luxury was replacing the regular milk with tinned condensed milk which was much creamier.

Hi Zipper - thanks for the reminder - Condensed was the creamy white milk - so Evaporated was the thick ultra sweet yellow-ish one which we kids (when our parents backs were turned) made into sandwiches. I am now cringing just at the thought of it!! :D

You people are making me sick to my gut! YUUUUUUCCCCK!

:)
I LOVE condensed milk, but I keep away ; that's because I wouldn't like the see to crying it's eyes out because I'm not there
Millie :(

Milk is really nasty stuff that's not too good for you I am afraid. But, to each their own. Hi Milliec! How are things going in G*D's country?

Milk is really nasty stuff that's not too good for you I am afraid. But, to each their own. Hi Milliec! How are things going in G*D's country?
1.milk - we have friends who decided to stay on a macrobiotic diet 35 yrs. Ago one of the things they haven't touched since, is milk. They say that milk induces the epithelia in different organs (like the nose) to secret more fluids. According to them' it's enough to stop drinking milk, and that's it.
But - I LOVE milk!
(especially condensed!)
2. god's land - feels like we have to thank daily if we make it safe back home. Not just the neverending war, but crime is getting worst my the minute
And as you know, we t had another suicide bomb this week - otherwise:
The weather is at it's best, the whole country looks like god's huge garden
And it seems that everyone's on the beach
Bye,
Millie:)

Magprob, N:) !
Now you've got to!
M.

While I have seen it done, I do not eat it myself. My great gran used to eat this as well as crackers with milk in a bowl. I think it is a depression era food.

Hypatia

Oh that's interesting about it being a depression era food, Hypatia. My mother was born after the depression, but perhaps she got it from her mother. Thanks for your response!

Milliec, That was a bad typo... I should have checked it and I can't edit it! Yikes! I am sorry... I meant pus.

Blah... pus?? That's sick. Yuuuuuck. I don't want to drink milk anymore haha.

It is true. The disease the cows get is call mastitis or maptitist or something like that. Long stringy strands of puss hang from their teets. In the early stages, they don't know the cow has it and it gets milked. Yep, cow pus! So, Got Milk?

Yeah!
There were big stries about in in the media here as well,as to the complete description of how the cows get this.
Though, I push it to the back of my head.
I'm lucky I had my morninf coffe (withit's milk) a hour ago!
Millie

Personally I think too much emphasis is put on the contents of our food. Especially processed foods. It's pasteurised... sterilised... iradiated etc etc etc - and in the end mostly tasteless and insipid. Vegetables haven't tasted the same since those post-war years when father had his vegetable garden and a major job for us kids was chasing behind horses with a bucket and shovel for the dung to feed the plants.

Were we a special breed with some super-protection??

We were fed sandwiches of rendered pork and beef fat (dripping) from the roast meat. A pan of stew hadn't matured until it was 3 days old.

Being the eldest I can remember my siblings being breast fed (thankfully coming back into fashion) and being weaned at the dinner table by mother chewing her food and feeding them the mash on a tea spoon. All the body's natural antibodies being passed down. Who knows the contents of Baby Food?? I suppose it doesn't really matter after all the treatments it goes through.

Oh well --- progress (? ) I suppose

Hi, I used to love it when my mom would make this. It was ssssoooo good. Now I am deathly allergic to bananas so I am missing this greatly.

Just thinking back to my earlier post. Bread and Dripping - the fat of roast pork - only thing was - us kids could only have the white of the top - Dad got the dark brown jelly underneath for his "pack-up". Just had to smile at the times we let the knife scrape just a milimeter lower... Delicious!

Ahhh yes, is that not called a heart attack sandwich?

Orange, I still have banana and milk a couple times a week! My mother used to serve this to us when we were growing up. I'm now 57. It still brings back good memories. Sometimes there is nothing else I crave when I'm feeling sick. It can be very soothing and comforting.

My Mom served this to us when I was young, maybe 2-5 yrs old in the late '60's/ear;y '70's, and we called it just what it was... bananas milk and sugar. I have a touch of intestinal flu, and was thinking about it, so I wanted to see if it had any specific uses. I've determined it's just a comfort thing, and like many said, probably originated in depression times.

Hey your not alone, heck I thought my mom was the only one who did that. Bananas with sugar and milk was common, so was popcorn left over from the previous night with sugar or milk, or just broken up cookies with milk. Mom didn't like to buy cereal cause it was so expensive. I still eat these things today 25 years later

Yes as I kid I ate this.

My mom made this for me in the '90s, so it's still kicking. I just googled it because I just ate it and wondered if anyone else out there did... it seems pretty unusual.

OOOOOoooooohhhhh yeah!! My Mom did this for us and now every now and again for a treat I do this for my kids.Nope you are not weird or out to lunch on this one, unless of course I am too! LOL . In fact it was one of the ways my Mom could get me to "drink" milk... works for my kids too... the dislike of milk must be hereditary.

Yes! My mom used to give me that too! Never heard of anyone else but our family doing it.