bananaphobia

[…]in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached.

1985, Time, page 76

Somewhere in my past, no doubt, I had a bad experience with lunch rooms, or over-ripe bananas. A psychiatrist would have a term of some sort for the banana-phobia, but this is just one of those things I’ll never overcome.[…]If my banana-phobia is a problem for me, than^([sic]) the parking-as-close-as-possible addict has some real fears to overcome.

1987 March 31, Tom Wright, “Wright Angles”, in Lassen County Times, volume 9, number 24, Susanville, Calif., page 4

Bananaphobia, air-typing and other lunchtime revelations[…]I knew that she at least harbored a strange hatred of bananas, a neurosis that I’d recently discovered when she was driven from my office, shivering in disgust, by a banana sitting on my desk.

2001 November 21, Ezra Dyer, “Ezra”, in The Improper Bostonian, volume X, number 23, page 14

Bananas win the award for “fruit you are least likely to see Elaine eating.” I can’t tell you why — it might be a texture thing. But after hearing a couple of people talk about various banana pudding recipes they had seen lately (including a Food Network chef preparing one similar to this recipe, except using Chessman shortbread cookies), I decided to dive right in, bananaphobia and all!

2003 August 20, Elaine Magee, “Banana pudding recipe peels away fat, calories”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 125, number 232, page L4

Boone had one client who was trained to eat a “low carb” diet. “I had to convince her that eating a banana was not a bad thing,” Boone said. For those with banana-phobias, or the rest of us who simply need an update, here is the latest information on five of our favorite foods.

2007 February 25, Brenda McHugh, “Five favorite foods — Are they healthy or harmful?”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 72, number 10, page 4