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> We’re sure bananas would be fine served as a vegetable, or with bacon, but this is certainly not the role we would assign to them today.

At least in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand it's not unusual at all to find pancakes or waffles with banana + maple syrup and bacon together.

https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/amp/

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Not uncommon in the US to have bananas on pancakes, but the bacon -usually- is served as a side (unless you're getting an "Elvis", which would have peanut butter, bacon, and banana, which I have seen as a waffle or pancake option).

But to the article, bacon wrapped bananas, standalone, aren't things any more.

Usually I see bacon on donuts. Now I’m craving a maple bacon donut.

The only good donut Voodoo ever made, and even then they generally did a crappy job of it. I'd rather just get a maple bar from the grocery store bakery and add bacon myself.

Prosciutto-wrapped cantaloupe is standard Italian fare (prosciutto e melone), I can't see bacon-wrapped banana unreasonably far from that. Going to try it tomorrow morning.

Also, Bacon-Wrapped Dates. But I suppose the question is not so much if it'd be any good, but whether it's common. And I've never seen bacon wrapped banana, either.

now you've got me wondering what is the subset of countries that both grow dates and eat bacon :)

European mediterranian countries. Bacon wrapped dates were pretty common at parties in Spain. Then they were considered bad for your health because of the fat, and now they are considered bad for your health because of the sugar.

ah ok a bit like the french used to do prunes wrapped in bacon. do the spanish grow dates? never seen a spanish date

Not in significant quantities, looks like, but Morocco and Algeria, which are basically next door, are significant producers.

Morocco & Algeria probably do not consume much pork, though.

Bacon-wrapped dates are AFAIK a relatively recent thing in the US. Bacon-wrapped scallops--which are actually a bit hard to get right (i.e. both the bacon and the scallops baked reasonably)--were the more traditional cocktail party item.

Bacon-wrapped dates, under the name of "devils on horseback", are documented (by the OED, no less) in an American magazine of 1885. So... not that recent. They certainly were a thing by the 1970s, then faded, then came back.

whatever you do, do not make scrambled eggs with blueberries. i throw up once just had a tiny bite.

Cooked green bananas (both actual plantains, and just unripe regular bananas) are used as starchy sides in a lot of cultures (mostly South America, Africa and the Caribbean afaik).

I have fond memories of tostones(literally translates as toasted, but actually twice-fried) plantains from college.

Long-time friend and then-roommate is Panamanian so we ate them frequently as an appetizer before (usually) a pork main.

Moved from Boulder to Miami and the one nice thing is that I can buy fried sweet plantains at every restaurant down here.

Never know how delicious them shits were, and I'm not even a big banana fan.

Not to mention bananas on pizza.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sweden-banana-pizza/

I'm partial to fried spam, eggs and pancakes covered in maple syrup.

If you want to get really wild, coat the spam in sugar before frying it at low-medium heat. It caramelizes around the outside and gets extra tasty.

Vazhakkai Poriyal (made with raw bananas, vegetable side dish) is pretty common here in India.

those are plantains I think, not the "sweet bananas" referred to here

Same URL, de-amped - https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/

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