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Your friend offers you a slice of banana bread that you watched her make from bananas that were covered with fruit flies. Do you eat it?

Just an hour ago, her almost-black bananas were sitting on the counter with fruit flies feasting on the peals. Would you accept a slice of this banana bread?
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November 25, 2009 09:20 PM
I wouldn't. I would politely decline and say I wasn't hungry but thank you.
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November 26, 2009 02:43 AM
Heck no! Rotting bananas and insect infestation in the kitchen point to a serious lack of hygiene practices. Not only would I not accept the banana bread from her, I would make an urgent mental note not to eat anything prepared in her kitchen again.

And remember, if any of her cereals or grains from the pantry have odd little things that look like grains of rice, DON'T eat them!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Drosophila_melanogaster_-_side_(aka).jpg
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November 26, 2009 04:37 AM
Probably not. I wouldn't say why, of course. I'd just decline without giving a reason. If she presses, I'd just say I already ate.

I wouldn't, however, make any judgments about her other food. Maybe she just forgot about the bananas this one time. It's possible, especially now when there's so much stuff to cook.
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November 26, 2009 08:06 AM
In Summer where I live a banana on the bench can go from green to black within a day or two, I'm not kidding. And bananas do have a pretty thick peel. One of the things you do with old bananas is cook them. Put them in cakes or bread. I wouldn't use a really old one to make a smoothie but the older they are the sweeter they are - sort of makes sense to leave them until they are at least ripe to cook them. BUT there are limits!

If they were really off and smelly and the fly had obviously been there for days and beginning to breed in that soft googy mush, then no. I wouldn't eat the bread.

I guess fruit fly eggs would cook and die at the temperature the cake was cooked, and the bad bugs would be destroyed but maybe not :)

I'd use the bananas in these pictures to cook in bread or cake, even the blacker ones as long as they weren't rotting
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/524868/2/istockphoto_524868_ripe_banana.jpg
http://k43.pbase.com/v3/82/308182/2/48788242.Aug_MG_5063160001s.jpg

THESE ARE TOO RIPE and I wouldn't use them, see how they are rotting on the ends
http://www.virtualantarctica.com/efa9901/images/black_bananas_border.jpg
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November 28, 2009 01:05 AM
Cooked banana bread is fine.

What people don't realize is that even in the processed foods they buy at the store there are "acceptable amounts" of bugs, hairs and other icky bits allowed by the FDA. Don't think for a minute that just because you didn't see it that it didn't happen.

Eat the bread and ask them why they chose to use brown 'nanas over fresh ones. You might learn something.
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November 29, 2009 09:19 PM
Yes. It's been cooked and the way-too-ripe bananas taste better in bread.
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