osodecanela | Here's your sign (take #2)......

I was shopping last month in our local Safeway, and spotted Mansana Bananas, which they only carry intermittantly.

I have a soft spot in my heart for these little things. When Pop was in his dying process, we would shop at the markets near the hospital for things he might eat. One day I brought a bunch of little mansana bananas which he'd never seen before. In one of his moments, he looked at them and pronounced they were for people who couldn't make up their minds between having bananas and grapes. They have always made me smile since.

Plus their subtle flavor doesn't hurt either.

Anyway, I carried a nice sized bunch of about 10 to the register, where the checker, a woman I'm fairly friendly with, enquired, "Saba Banana?"
"No, Mansana Banana."
"Mansana Banana?"
"Yes, Mansana Banana."

She looked thru the listings for their code and couldn't find a listing.
"Try looking under Apple Banana, I said. That worked.

"Do they taste different from the longer bananas?"
"I think so.
"Do you eat them just like this?"
"No dear. You peel them first."

On cue, the man behind me added, "Here's your sign."