Does a banana split have to be in that long glass dish?

[Alpo]

If you were to dump two or three different types of ice cream and a bowl and chunk up some bananas on top of it with whipped cream and cherries and nuts and stuff - would it still be a banana split?

 

My brother taught me to make a quick and dirty grilled cheese sandwich, when we were teenagers. Put two slices of bread in the toaster. While it is toasting, unwrap a kraft single.

 

When the toast pops up put one on the counter, put the cheese on it, put the other one on top of the first one then put your weight on it and just lean. It squishes down to about a quarter of an inch thick and it melts the cheese and it's pretty close to a good grilled cheese sandwich.

 

I was watching this TV show just now, and the woman was slicing bananas into a plastic bowl, and she got some company and she told the company that she was making banana splits. In a plastic cereal bowl. And slicing a banana into coins on top of the ice cream.

 

Hmmm.

Edited March 13 by Alpo
fix the title

[Horace Patootie, SASS #35798]

It should taste the same. Sounds delicious !

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

does it matter ? 

 

  ask Widder and TW 

[Subdeacon Joe]

8 minutes ago, Alpo said:

If you were to dump two or three different types of ice cream and a bowl and chunk up some bananas on top of it with whipped cream and cherries and nuts and stuff - would it still be a banana split?

 

I would say that you have a "Banana Split Inspired Ice Cream Dessert" because the banana isn't split, just cut up. Would i get my knickers in a twist if someone served it to me as a "Banana Split?" No. Unless it was in a restaurant or ice cream parlor and it wasn't described as banana chunks rather than a split banana. 

 

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

My brother taught me to make a quick and dirty grilled cheese sandwich, when we were teenagers. Put two slices of bread in the toaster. While it is toasting, unwrap a kraft single.

 

When the toast pops up put one on the counter, put the cheese on it, put the other one on top of the first one then put your weight on it and just lean. It squishes down to about a quarter of an inch thick and it melts the cheese and it's pretty close to a good grilled cheese sandwich.

 

I'd call that "Cheese on Toast," or "Toasted Cheese." Part of the essence of "Grilled Cheese Sandwiches" (more properly "riddled cheese sandwich) is the bread being browned and crisped in butter.

 

I  grew up with toaster ovens rather than popup toasters. So we would make cheese sandwiches, sometimes with onions and tomato,  in the toaster oven, and differentiate between regular Grilled Cheese  and those which we called Toasted cheese. 

 

We'd also make open faced cheese sandwiches: bread,  ranch dressing,  tomato,  onion, and cheese,  put in the toaster oven set on Broil.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Ice cream place we used to go to, (I can't remember the name it's been so long), you could order an Upside down Banana Split. The banana was still slices, but the sliced were stood up in a cup, the ice cream in the middle, and the toppings on top of that. 

Edited March 13 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[DeaconKC]

1 hour ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

does it matter ? 

 

  ask Widder and TW 

You beat me to that answer!

[Texas Jack Black]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

If you were to dump two or three different types of ice cream and a bowl and chunk up some bananas on top of it with whipped cream and cherries and nuts and stuff - would it still be a banana split?

 

My brother taught me to make a quick and dirty grilled cheese sandwich, when we were teenagers. Put two slices of bread in the toaster. While it is toasting, unwrap a kraft single.

 

When the toast pops up put one on the counter, put the cheese on it, put the other one on top of the first one then put your weight on it and just lean. It squishes down to about a quarter of an inch thick and it melts the cheese and it's pretty close to a good grilled cheese sandwich.

 

I was watching this TV show just now, and the woman was slicing bananas into a plastic bowl, and she got some company and she told the company that she was making banana splits. In a plastic cereal bowl. And slicing a banana into coins on top of the ice cream.

 

Hmmm.

 Think SPLIT,  Banana SPLIT not Banana circles.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Absolutely YES!!  Otherwise you just have "Chopped Banana with Ice Cream."  Yes, It will taste the same, depending on the sauce(s) used but it won't be a "Nanner Split."  "N don't ferget the Maraschino cherry (or several of 'em).  Chocolate Syrup won't hurt neither. 🤣

[Subdeacon Joe]

Back in my 20s when I ordered such things,  I'd say,  "I'd like a banana split please.  BUT I don't want any of the traditional flavors.  Please pick 3 other flavors, but no banana,  bubblegum, or birthday cake cream. Other than that, go wild. Take your aggressions out on me!"

 

Never got a bad one in 10 years of that.

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

21 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Back in my 20s when I ordered such things,  I'd say,  "I'd like a banana split please.  BUT I don't want any of the traditional flavors.  Please pick 3 other flavors, but no banana,  bubblegum, or birthday cake cream. Other than that, go wild. Take your aggressions out on me!"

 

Never got a bad one in 10 years of that.

Not a Banana Split if there is NO Banana. 

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

... I know what I'm getting when I'm in town tomorrow!

[Subdeacon Joe]

30 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:

Not a Banana Split if there is NO Banana. 

 

Yeah,  I guess I also forgot to mention a dish, too

[watab kid]

NO , i like it any way you serve it - or ill figure out how to get it into whatever i have available - im nota presentation snob , i like what tastes good out of whatever i cxan get it in 

 

im not against a proper presentation , but thats not my first priority b

[Alpo]

9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Please pick 3 other flavors, but no banana,  bubblegum, or birthday cake cream.

 

9 hours ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:

Not a Banana Split if there is NO Banana. 

 

I took his "no banana" request to mean no banana flavored ice cream.

 

Not "no banana in the banana split".

 

I mean, hell - I wouldn't want any bubble gum or birthday cake in my banana split either. Make it either chewy or crummy or both.

[Sheriff Dill]

12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

I would say that you have a "Banana Split Inspired Ice Cream Dessert" because the banana isn't split, just cut up. Would i get my knickers in a twist if someone served it to me as a "Banana Split?" No. Unless it was in a restaurant or ice cream parlor and it wasn't described as banana chunks rather than a split banana. 

 

 

I'd call that "Cheese on Toast," or "Toasted Cheese." Part of the essence of "Grilled Cheese Sandwiches" (more properly "riddled cheese sandwich) is the bread being browned and crisped in butter.

 

I  grew up with toaster ovens rather than popup toasters. So we would make cheese sandwiches, sometimes with onions and tomato,  in the toaster oven, and differentiate between regular Grilled Cheese  and those which we called Toasted cheese. 

 

We'd also make open faced cheese sandwiches: bread,  ranch dressing,  tomato,  onion, and cheese,  put in the toaster oven set on Broil.

Have you tried mayonnaise, flavored mayonnaise or butter. Depending on what kind food mood your in it adds a whole to level. 

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Long years ago, my first wife (rest her soul!) added mayonnaise to her cake batter.
Her cakes were truly SUPERB!

When you speak of such additions, I will remember my astonishment at seeing her culinary contents, my greater astonishment at the excellence of her finished product, and I will reflect seriously on the premise that there's a hell of a lot I DON'T know! 😁😁😁

[Alpo]

I have heard of replacing the oil with mayonnaise in a box cake. I've never seen a recipe using mayonnaise for a scratch cake, but often for a box cake. And I hear it makes it great. Although I've never tried.

[Rye Miles #13621]

I believe we should have Widder chime in, he’s the expert on nanna splits! 

[Texas Jack Black]

 We need the NANNA SPLIT experts.  Calling Widder and TW.  HELP 🙃

[Dawg Hair, SASS #29557]

Presentation, that is what it's all about, but you can also do a Calvin and Hobbes trick and eat it out of a bucket.

[Sedalia Dave]

14 hours ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

does it matter ? 

 

  ask Widder and TW 

 

@Tennessee williams @Widder, SASS #59054

[Tennessee williams]

I can't believe the likes of some of y'all. They's GOOD nanner splits, they's nanner splits, then they's just a bunch of stuff in a bowl. 

1) "Just a bunch of stuff in a bowl" is obvious. Somedang body just threw some ingredients in a bowl and either didnt want to go to the trouble, or aint good enough with a knife to split a nanner. I equate this mess to Dollar General store. 

2) "Nanner splits" consist of a nanner whats split down the middle with either flavored ice cream or vanilla ice cream with some syrup on it. I equate this here to the Walmart. Somebody half way tried. I seen a nanner split one time what had the nanner split into quarters lengthwise. That bordered on communism.

3)"Good nanner splits" is when you go down to the DQ and order a nanner split with caramel on each end and pineapple in the middle. 

 

If it ain't got whipped cream...put some on it. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, Sheriff Dill said:

Have you tried mayonnaise, flavored mayonnaise or butter. Depending on what kind food mood your in it adds a whole to level. 

 

I've used mayonnaise,  and flavored mayonnaise,  on the open face cheese things. I particularly like a homemade garlic and paprika mayonnaise. 

 

I'll also use mayonnaise on the outside of grilled cheese sandwiches instead of butter.  I also sprinkle green box parm or some finely grated cheddar on the outside to give it a frico crust.

 

2 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

Long years ago, my first wife (rest her soul!) added mayonnaise to her cake batter.

 

Oil and eggs.

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Oil and eggs.

Is it oil and eggs? I thought it was oil and egg yolks.

 

Ain't never made any, but that was my understanding.

[Subdeacon Joe]

40 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Is it oil and eggs? I thought it was oil and egg yolks.

 

Ain't never made any, but that was my understanding.

 

Both work.  Egg yolk only will give you a richer taste and creamer texture.  

Whole egg is easier, lighter but stiffer texture. The whites help stabilize it and make it less likely for the oil to overpower the emulsifier.

 

Most commercial mayonnaise uses whole eggs and additional yolks.  Some of the premium priced ones use only yolks, but I'm not going to pay $15 for a cup of mayo. 

 

My method is to take a jar that my immersion blender fits into (21 oz. Better Than Bouillon jar is perfect), put in 1 egg, ± 1 TBS of lemon juice or vinegar (usually apple cider vinegar, but almost any except balsamic), a pinch of salt, maybe a grind of pepper,  1 TBS of mustard (NOT yellow mustard such as Frenches), a pinch of tarragon or other herbs or spices. Blend that with the stick blender.  Leave the blender in the jar,  add a cup of neutral oil. Start blending and slowly bring the blender up through the oil. Whole thing takes about a minute.

 

Every once in a while I'll add an extra yolk, but not often.  I don't like having extra whites. 

 

About the only thing that I don't mind separating eggs for is making Lemon Curd. Then I have enough whites for a small Angel Food Cake or maybe meringues or a Pavlova. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Heh!

 

@Alpo

 

I just ran across this in a FB group.