BANANA SPLIT INQUIRY

Split!!!!

Splot works if you leave it too long.

I use vanilla.

Orange sherbet

Vanoola for a splot.

Vanilla is the only answer.

chocolate!

These things exist other than in memory?

I remember them on menus from the 1960s but don't recall ever seeing one served or eaten.

I don't like raw banana so it was never tempting. Outside of some retro ice cream parlours in the sticks, I can't imagine finding them anywhere.

Ancillary inquiry: how do you prepare the banana?

Do you slice it into little wheels, or do you leave it intact like an erect penis one uncovers via excavation?

Truly gripping contribution, r7

I’ve never tried it but I think peanut butter ice cream would be good.

Why would I want to ruin perfectly good ice cream by exposing it to the ickiness of a banana?

many ice creams are fine. variety! Nutty ones go well with the chocolate and banana. tart fruit ones give a good contrast to the other flavours, and sweet banana.

Pistachio and Strawberry 😋

Pumpkin ice cream ! With a pumpkin latte !

Isn't it pumpkin time yet ?

I splot all over things but you DON'T want to eat the brown banana.

I've seen them made before with Neapolitan ice cream: vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate.

R10 Split the banana lengthwise like a taco shell, spread 2 tablespoons of peanut butter into it and freeze them both for an hour or two. Once frozen, top with 2 scoops of peanut butter ice cream and one scoop of chocolate in the middle. Top that with drizzled chocolate sauce and crushed peanuts.

FFS one scoop each of vanilla. chocolate and strawberry.

To my fellow fat whores, this what we consumed in 1973 and is classic. Check Wikipedia.

The sauces were meant to accompany and not fight the ice cream--chocolate sauce, strawberry sauce, then a pineapple jelly on the vanilla scoop.

You don't get fancy with the ice cream flavors, otherwise it's a traffic accident of syrupy sludge. The banana is there for stability and has fewer calories and sugar than ice cream.

R17 After you make that mess, what's the result supposed to be ?

R19 Fat Whore Heaven

[Quote] FFS one scoop each of vanilla. chocolate and strawberry.

For fucks sake? Why does the question enrage you, my love?

3 scoops of vanilla, with chocolate and strawberry sauce on two, and a random sauce on the third. I like caramel. That way you get some sauce on the bananas.

Do you all use whipped cream as well?

My absolute favorite Banana Splits

I use Mennen shaving cream.

Bananas Foster is and always will be the superior ice cream/banana coupling.

Banana split for my baby,

A glass of plain water for me.

Chocolate chip and everything that's nice

Tutti-frutti once and spumoni twice

Dispenser man, if you please

Serve us up a bowl of calories

I'll have a banana split for my baby, and a glass of plain water for me

[quote] 3 scoops of vanilla,

WRONG. Do you work for the DMV?

We used to get them as a treat at the local dairy in the 60s. It was within walking distance (actually a beautiful walk through a cemetery) and we'd get one once or twice during the summer, in addition to just getting the occasional cone. The original dairy was sold in 1972. I never went after it was sold.

[quote] For fucks sake? Why does the question enrage you, my love?

The question doesn't enrage me, some of the responses do.

The original 1904 banana split at a soda fountain in Latrobe, Pennsylvania had vanilla chocolate strawberry but those who insist there is a classic composition are tight-assed ignoramuses. The variations in components arrived quickly with the sundaes growing popularity. And variations persisted for the following century. There is no classic banana spit.

FFS

I bet r27 is a blast at parties.

[quote] There is no classic banana spit.

FFS

My earliest memories were of a Dairy Queen version, with three scoops of soft-serve, banana sliced on its length on each side, chocolate, strawberry, and pineapple sauces, a dollop of whipped cream on each scoop, and a a maraschino cherry on top of each of those.

Anyone remember SWENSON's, and their EARTHQUAKE?

Speaking of pineapple, I worked at a Carvel in the 70s and the best sundae we made was the Hawaiian. Vanilla ice cream with pineapple sauce, coconut and a cherry on top. Mmmm,...so good.

I don’t like all this talk of pineapple sauce. Let’s stop that shit right now.

[quote] I don’t like all this talk of pineapple sauce.

Lol. I like you.

[quote] What flavor ice cream is best for a banana splot?

In old country we like turnip flavor.

Actually, I am, R33!

I would go for a mix of chocolate and sweet cream with sea salt

I made that ice cream out of the frozen bananas today and put in cocoa and peanuts. I bet you can make a strawberry flavor and then another one with vanilla powder and use it to fix a banana split with the same ingredients or maybe do something different with the whip and sauces.

Friendly’s in the 1970’s had the best ice cream 🍨 sundaes.

R42 I'm so glad you liked it! I do another version of it substituting the peanut butter for biscoff cookie butter and using dulce de leche ice cream and caramel sauce.

Thank you R24! My mind went there immediately.

Glad there are other old farts on the thread.

Tra-la-la La-la La La!!!

R43, it's a wonderful world filled with Friendly people, Friendly people like you and me...

FRIBBLE

I partook of one last night.

I cut the ends off a small banana and then sliced it in half lengthwise, then removed the skin and put the two halves in a bowel.

Used only vanilla ice cream, sorry Neapolitan advocates. Atop the ice cream I added chocolate sauce and strawberry sauce, half and half, and then crowned it with some whipped cream. I realized we didn’t have any maraschinos and was sad.

Made one for my partner as well, but he initially balked. I then remembered I had bought some wet walnuts but forgot to add them because I don’t care for them. I added them and he cleaned that bowl.

A simple pleasure.

In a bowl not bowel!!!

Even as a kid I never cared for banana splits. Bananas and ice cream...and sauce...just never appealed.

R32 loves "Phantom" because it's a classical opera.

As for, "There is no classic banana spit. FFS,"

Indeed and oh, dear.

R50, missed pun opportunity!

My favorite was Cherry Garcia with banana, whipped cream, and cherries.

I had to share it with two female dogs who detested one another. And they knew math - we had to share equally and you could tell the Airedale thought she should get more because she weighed 110 pounds and you could tell the dachshund was all “Fuck you, Bitch. I can eat as much as you!”

Flavor don't matter, just make sure it's served in a cavin dish.

Why did the bababa split fall out of favor?

BANANA FFS

Back in my Friendly’s Manager days a Banana Split, or as we called them Banana Royal was always made with 1 scoop of chocolate, 1 scoop of vanilla & 1 scoop of strawberry on top of 2 halves of a banana. In that order. 1 ladle of strawberries on chocolate , 1 ladle of hot fudge on vanilla & 1 ladle of pineapple on strawberry. Cover with whipped cream, sprinkles and nuts. 3 cherries.

I thought it was gross. And I can’t believe I remember this shit after almost 45 years.

One scoop each of chocolate, vanilla strawberry

One banana

Strawberry topping, hot fudge, pineapple topping

Whipped cream, nuts (peanuts or walnuts), three cherries

It's a very heavy treat, so best for two people or

Spumoni for bananas splits.

I hate those jellied fruits in Spumoni

[quote]These things exist other than in memory?

Yes, R7. I go on a beach vacation every year and the ice cream parlor on the boardwalk sells these alongside other varieties of sundaes. This is within 50 miles of NYC so hardly "the sticks." I've seen them in other ice cream parlors over the years, too.

I wasn't born in the 60s so it's funny that you think these disappeared somehow in that decade when I've been seeing them all over in my 52 years on earth.

Isn't a traditional banana split done with the three classic neopolitan flavors, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla?

[quote]For fucks sake? Why does the question enrage you, my love?

Not R18 but I feel his amazement at the dummies here. A banana split has a defined recipe of one scoop each of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. It's a stupid question, like asking what type of alcohol you like in a gin and tonic.

R8's question is even dumber. "How is the banana prepared" in a banana split? Well, einstein, you might want to sit down for this but

I've never enjoyed banana splits fully - half way in and you have this gross chocolate/strawberry/pineapple swirl mix in some melted ice cream with a banana in it.

I love sundaes but banana splits always seemed like a bad idea that caught on for some weird reason.

Berries would be so much better. And you can kill the pineapple and replace it with caramel sauce.

R18 here. This is the CLASSIC banana split. The photo is from Fenton's Creamery in Oakland, serving fat whores from U.C. Berkeley for over a century.

R65 - where the banana at?

I'm not sure I like the choc, strawberry, vanilla ice cream combo - it doesn't improve it in my opinion. It's still an abomination of flavors and too much going on and fighting each other.

Now, banana ice cream is wonderful! Chunky Monkey all day.

Banana milkshake is my favourite

R66 Shocking reveal, but the banana was barely there, at most a half, split as I recall. No one cared about the banana.

R68 - right on - common sense prevailed! Does anyone ever care about the banana?

Half the time I got a banana with bruises - which is just adding insult to injury.

You gotta throw a banana in there - but a damaged one? How little do you love me, Mr. Ice Cream man? I'm just a kid - I don't need this added humiliation.

[quote]Why did the bababa split fall out of favor?

It had to much to drink?

DQ’s banana splits are the only way to go.

What about peanut butter parfaits?

Stick to the topic and start a thread R72.

I do a banana split maybe one or two times per year. They aren't something I crave -until I do. And usually having one satisfies me for a year or so. Banana splits go way back to the turn of the century -at soda fountains. While people are free to make them as they wish, the traditional/original calls for chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream, various toppings, whipped cream, nuts, and cherries. I always have hot fudge on the vanilla and the chocolate, and strawberry topping on the strawberry ice cream. (Never cared much for marshmallow, pineapple, or caramel.) Yes, they are a gross indulgence and a guilty pleasure. So what! One or two a year won't turn you into a fat whore. Live a little! Use whatever ice cream flavors and toppings you like. There's nothing like a trip to Baskin Robbins on a hot summer day, and sitting down with a banana split and calling it lunch...

R43 is wrong. Farrell’s was better

Fenton’s in Oak-town

[Quote] It had to much to drink?

Oh dear.

[quote][R43] is wrong. Farrell’s was better

Farrell's Pig Trough...

Oink!

Banana split? Banana NASTY.

R80, Like Liza, I never get tired of Alma showing up to comment!

Banana NASH-tee