bananaphile

See also: banana-phile

English

Alternative forms

• banana-phile

Etymology

From banana +‎ -phile.

Noun

bananaphile (plural bananaphiles)

1. One who loves bananas.
   • 1967, Moishe Nadir, “The Eatabananists”, in Max Rosenfeld, editor, A Union for Shabbos, and Other Stories of Jewish Life in America, Philadelphia, Pa.: Sholom Aleichem Club Press, page 187:

     Our bananaphiles meanwhile were raising a furor in the newspapers. Why weren’t people eating more bananas? Why weren’t the sick people in the hospitals given bananas to eat instead of questionable eggs and so forth?

   • 1970 November, World Coins, page 1384:

     Turn page upside down, notice legends on banana cloth wrapping. “Bananaphiles” may have a new collecting interest.

   • 1975 April 4, “Banana Trade Slips Away”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, 89th year, number 165, Spokane, Wash., page 4:

     Within the memory of many an old bananaphile are the days of loss-leader sales in chain stores of bananas, three pounds for a dime.

   • 1977 November 6, Chicago Tribune, 131st year, number 310, section 6, page 23:

     Tarzan’s dead but Jane’s still swinging. Bananaphiles enjoy a wild look at old age.

   • 1979 June 3, Michael E. Kampen, “The Banal Banana Finds Its Place In The Arts”, in The Charlotte Observer, 94th year, number 143, page 9F:

     There are other bona fide bananaphiles in Charlotte — most of the people attending the reception for her show on May 20 enjoying liquid banana surprises had already “gone bananas.”

   • 1984 July 8, Malcolm R. Hebert, “Getting Serious About Bananas”, in Sunshine, page 20:

     There are three stages of ripeness. The first is the banana with a touch of green; the second is light yellow; and the third is yellow with dark-brown flecks on it. Most people prefer the first two stages, but bananaphiles know that the brown-flecked is the sweetest.

   • 1994, Gordon C. Graham, As I Was Saying: Essays on the International Book Business, Hans Zell Publishers, →ISBN, page 53:

     Of all consumer goods sold from one country to another, only books are expected by their purchasers to bear local prices with a public relationship to those in the countries of origin. No-one who buys a Volkswagen in Australia bothers to learn what the price is in Germany. British bananaphiles do not seek to know the price of their favourite fruit in the Canary Islands.

   • 1994 July 25, James Cockington, “Bananas in the raw”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 48,951, page 3s:

     Older bananaphiles may be interested to know that, inside the pyjamas marked B2 hides someone who resembles Hugh Grant.

   • 1999 March 1, The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1], number 50,387:

     Today is the birthday of bananaphile Harry Belafonte (1927), generational stutterer Roger Daltrey (1944) and cunning ham Ron Howard (1954).

   • 2000 September/October, Islands, page 26:

     To test the claims of bananaphiles, who say that each type – from Brazilian dwarf to praying hands – has a distinct flavor, guests taste the fruit as carefully as they would wine.

   • 2003, W. Park Kerr, Viva Margarita: Fabulous Fiestas in a Glass, Munchies, and More, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 70:

     Whether you’re a big bananaphile or not, you’ll dig this drink—Iguanabanana, baby!

   • 2011, John Oldale, “Panama”, in Who, or Why, or Which, or What …?: A Global Gazetteer of the Instructive and Strange, Particular Books, →ISBN, page 200:

     But, as all true bananaphiles agree, in size, handling, aroma and above all flavour, the Cavendish is a shadow of the glorious fruit that was once ‘Big Mike’.

   • 2011 February/March, Fine Cooking, number 109, The Taunton Press, Inc., →ISSN, page 71:

     Supermarkets are dominated by a single variety, the yellow, mildly sweet Cavendish. But bananaphiles can take heart: Major companies like Dole and Chiquita are brining more varieties to grocery stores.

   • 2014, Jeff Rovin, To Kill a Matzo Ball, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 109:

     Technically, I was a former-New-York-woman-Jew-thirtysomething-divorcée-restaurateur-bananaphile.

   • 2018, Christopher Woods, “Quinta da Granja”, in Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens, Portland, Or.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 145:

     Lest he be typecast as a bananaphile, he’s rather fond of palm trees too.

   • 2018, Michael Haworth, Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

     But there is nothing in the taste of bananas that I am missing, nothing that my bananaphile friend is privy to that I am not. It is simply that we have different taste response characteristics to one and the same stimulus.