Plantains

[Evolved]

I had the displeasure of eating a plantain. It looks like a larger banana (insert juvenile humor here ), but it tastes nothing like. You have to wait until it turns black (for the sweetest flavor) and then cook it like a potato (it is too tough to eat raw). It stinks up the whole kitchen. I could not eat more than a bite of it, it tasted so gross- like sweet potato + mold.



Anyone else ever eat them?

[Newgrange]

The Chinese restaurant I buy from, sells them. They taste crappy.They also sell cheese wontons , which is strange
Chinese cheese ?

[Milesian]

Yeah, some supermarkets here actually sell them like bananas, as if they were interchangable. It wouldn't suprise me if they considered them as extra-value size bananas

They were fairly tasteless (uncooked) and tough as well.
Not something I would everythink to myself - "Mmmm...I could really go a Plantain now"

[Telperion]

You're not supposed to eat them raw. I find they are rather dull when boiled. However, they actually taste very good when fried in honey or maple syrup until the sugars caramelize, which makes them into a sort of candy. (I discovered that myself when trying to figure out how to get rid of a bunch of them that I had bought.)

[Milesian]

You're not supposed to eat them raw

Yes, but this is Scotland. Apart from curry, most people here have little knowledge of ethnic foods

[Johannes de León]

that thing is aweful... i hate it... one time a friend of mine who is vegeterian, invited me and more people for a "vegetarian" dinner (of course lot's of people came up with meat! ) and the dessert was that thing... i guess no one could eat that... it tastes so bad imo!

[Telperion]

Yes, but this is Scotland. Apart from curry, most people here have little knowledge of ethnic foods

My favourite ethnic food is the deep-fried Mars Bar.

[Milesian]

My favourite ethnic food is the deep-fried Mars Bar.

Your a man of refined taste
Being the heart attack capital of Europe is a small price to pay for such culinery delights

[Laedifox]

My favourite ethnic food is the deep-fried Mars Bar.

I'm North American. I guess I just don't get it

As for plantains, if you don't cook em right, they taste terrible. But I guess that goes for most things...

[berserkergrrl]

Well I am in the USA and I don't think I could eat a deep fried mars bar,I'll take mine plain thanx But I did like plantains when they were fried they tasted like squash or sweet potatoes to me.