Banana

Banana Dance Party in San Francisco

By Erin Mittelstaedt on

If you were in downtown San Francisco last Tuesday, you might have seen me dancing around the sidewalk in a banana suit. I was hanging out at a busy intersection with Nicole and Fabian (long-time …

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How to Peel a Banana Like a Matador: The Snap Method

By Erin Mittelstaedt on

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in our sunny conference room in San Bruno, California, for The FruitGuys Community Fund Advisory Board meeting. Suddenly, a SNAP! made me jump. I looked around to see …

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Going Bananas: Your Complete Ripe Banana Guide

By The FruitGuys on

Long before our team at The FruitGuys started wearing banana suits to encourage people to eat more of them, the “1878 Domestic Cyclopaedia of Practical Information” instructed American consumers on …

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Clinging to Fruit 101

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

If Cling and Freestone sounds like a 1970s folk group gone electric, you’re not quite wrong. Stone fruit season has begun and it makes me want to do a head-banging pan flute solo. It’s never too late …

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A Banana Walks Into a Bar…

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

As part of our celebration of 25 years in business, we are dusting off some of my classic newsletters. Here’s one from 2006 that reveals the inspiration behind The FruitGuys Bananas.  It must …

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Cavendish Banana

By FruitGuys Staff on

If you prefer your bananas with pedigree, then the Cavendish is for you. It has peerage - so you may address your banana as Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount - or Baron Banana. But if our banana doesn't …

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Banana

By FruitGuys Staff on

Here at the FruitGuys, we like to dress up like bananas, because we love bananas! A perfect food, only 110 calories, 4g fiber, 1g of protein and high in potassium and Vitamin C. We love the elegant …

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Customer Service Answers Some Fruit Quality Questions

By The FruitGuys on

Fruit Quality Grab Bag Winter can bring some challenges to keeping fruit at the appropriate temperatures during transport. Our buyers, packers, and delivery people do their best to keep fruit …

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Of Bananas

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

The 1878 edition of A Domestic Cyclopídia of Practical Information, published by Henry Holt & Company, explained to eager readers the uses for the banana:  “It is eaten raw, either alone or cut in …

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Sugar Cane Kebabs

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Adapted from foodnetwork.com INGREDIENTS 1 sugar cane, washed well and cut into 1/4-inch sticks, tapered to a point on each end to form skewers (leave the skin on—it helps strengthen the …

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Peeling the Myth on Bananas

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

I have a gripe with a comedy standard. I’ve tried—I mean I’ve really worked at it—and I still can’t seem to slip on a banana peel. Sure, it’ll slide a little bit, but generally, I’ve found that …

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Banana Jungle

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

Every summer when I was kid we would visit my grandparents in New Orleans. My dad’s folks lived in Metairie, a parish just outside the city near Lake Pontchartrain in a small, brick, one-story house. …

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