bananaphile

plural bananaphiles · alternative banana-phile

1. One who loves bananas.

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

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

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   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?

   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

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

   1970 November, World Coins, page 1384

   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.

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

   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.”

   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 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.

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