Learn the real way to make a banana sandwich.
Friends, people outside the South have never had abanana sandwich.
Theres comfort in this quick meal or midnight snack.
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It seems like an odd combination, but oh does it work.
Heres why Southerners love the banana sandwich and how to make one.
Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
What Is A Southern Banana Sandwich?
Credit:Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
While some people replace the mayo with peanut butter, others hit the trifecta with both.
The efforts of their resourcefulness have become Southern classics.
Nows not the time to use up your brown, spotted bananas.
Save those forbanana bread.
For banana sandwiches, youll want bananas that are yellow with no green.
The bananas need to be firm enough to slice, not mushy.
Peanut butter is a little better at keeping bananas in place.
So feel free to fry one up when you get a craving.
Near Silver Lake, Florida, back in 1876, someone tried to establish a commercial banana farm.
It didn’t succeed because the climate wasn’t hot and humid enough.
Bananas are still mostly imported from Central and South America.
Since bananas need importing, they were once a pricey luxury.
Eventually, bananas became more widespread thanks to an enterprising businessman named Samuel Zemurray.
There are tales of Zemurray standing in the boxcars and tossing bananas to curious citizens along the way.
He had made $100,000 (big bucks now, unimaginable then) in the 1890s.
Many thanks to Zemurray for setting us on a course toward banana sandwichestheavocado toastof the South.
The South has plenty of similarwell-loved sandwiches.
If you havent tried them, whats stopping you?
