I like my bananas yellow, with the brown dots just starting to appear. That's the perfect sweetness, flavor, and texture.

When I was a kid, my mom thought bananas were too expensive, so they were a rare treat. To this day, eating a banana feels like a candy bar to me.

When I was an adult, with a job, and my own apartment, I was grocery shopping, and about to pass the bananas because they were too expensive, I saw that they were only about 60 cents a pound. A giant bunch of bananas, more than I'd ever seen in my house in my life, was less than $2!

I have always had a few bananas in my kitchen ever since.