Actually, I’ve never seen K-Pax. 
What I remember is someone offering a couple of bananas to the inexperienced, showing them they had to peel it, and then the inexperienced one started to eat the peel instead of the banana. I just can’t visualize who it was.
I’d be really worried about pesticides, Even organic bananas are treated.
ever since I watched ‘the dreamers’ I too know how to section a banana correctly…
Pesticides or other treatment? Should I be peeling apples and grapes and pears, etc?
I’ve seen something of the sort. The one I remember has a grumpy individual, strongly resembling Dad’s Army’s Mr Mainwaring (and possibly on whom he was based!) showing a schoolboy one of the first postwar bananas in 1946. He hands the boy the banana, and the boy, who has never seen one before, has no idea what do do with it. “Well, eat it!” the grumpy individual orders, and the boy gingerly moves the entire banana towards his mouth. The man snatches it away, irascibly peels it for him, and hands it back. Poor kid! I’ve briefly looked for this clip without finding it.
I can’t say I’ve seen Dad’s Army either, but there can’t be too many variations on that joke anyway, I guess.
If you don’t want to eat them you could extract potassium from them 
I’ve never eaten them, but whole chopped bananas make a lovely banana wine, so i have drunk them. The slight hit of tannins helps, and the added nutrients make the yeast very happy. A boozy bananas foster, pretty much.
The Electric Banana was the product created by a vibrator company. Yes, that kind.
I remember the author saying something to the effect of we started out just writing porn, and somehow got sidetracked.
I’m back, to report on my meal with the peels. Today for lunch I had noodles and veggies, with my Asian-inspired banana-peel sauce. I liked it!
The peels still taste like pears to me, and not like bananas. But basically they don’t have that much flavor in and of themselves. I think it would be fine to add them to many different dishes, while I don’t think I’d ever feature them in a dish.
I will definitely be finding ways to use the peels from now on!
What I usually do with bananas is put them in smoothies—let them ripen, peel them, and freeze the peeled bananas to put in the blender with yogurt and frozen berries. (When you peel and freeze an entire bunch at once, you really notice how much of the fruit you aren’t actually using!) So for next time, I’m planning to just wash the bananas and slice them, peel and all, and freeze the slices for use in smoothies. If that works out fine, I may not be trying other things, but…
One of my go-to desserts is some kind of fruit cobbler—I usually use apples, but sometimes blueberries, cranberries, or pears, whatever I’ve got on hand. So I think it would be a natural for me to try mixing some chopped banana peels in with the other fruit for a cobbler.
Cooked and pureed, I imagine they could be used much the way people use applesauce as an ingredient in baked goods like muffins.
I definitely would try adding them to curries, stir fries, and stews—either in pieces or pureed.
TL;DR I found the peels to be perfectly edible, not offensive at all, and mildly tasty. I expect to be using them mostly as an “extender” in things—a way to use up all of what I’ve paid for but would otherwise have discarded, and a way to add nutrition to a dish.
P.S. I do always buy organic bananas—I think it’s the only kind my co-op sells, if I’m not mistaken.
I’ve only ever used them in smoothies so far, when I freeze the whole unpeeled banana before it goes bad, then drop the whole thing in the blender when making a smoothie.
But I’m intrigued by the ideas on this thread about pickling the peel.
I also only buy organic if I have a choice, so I’m curious about “treatments” mentioned on organic produce and if or how much we should be cleaning those, or if it will even help.
I mean, why not! “Pickle” basically exists to preserve whatever you’ve got, right? I’ve always been fond of the label on Branston Pickle— (emphasis mine)—
Ingredients
Vegetables in Variable Proportions (52%) (Carrot, Rutabaga, Onion, Cauliflower), Sugar, Barley Malt Vinegar, Water, Spirit Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Date Paste (Dates, Rice Flour), Salt, Apple Pulp, Modified Maize Starch, Colour (Sulphite Ammonia Caramel), Onion Powder, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Spices, Colouring Food (Roasted Barley Malt Extract), Herb and Spice Extracts.
i.e., whatever there’s plenty of extra of hanging around, at harvest time 
It wasn’t Dad’s Army. It was a Pathé newsreel from 1946. I’m not arguing, just trying to explain.
Oh no…no arguing. It’s only going to drive me nuts until I can figure it out.
My favourite part about this specific comic is that God looks like Klaus Kinski.
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