🍌 Pardon us while we rant about "banana peppers" 🍌

Sir Geoffrey Bananington is the Professor of Comparative Fruit, Literature and Interspecies Negotiation at Bruisington University (and never lets any of us forget it). Right now he's on a mission to right the injustices done to bananas. Professor B tends to rant a bit, but he's part of the Banana Collective, and we love 'im.

I take it upon myself to educate the human masses on the stupid mistakes they make when it comes to bananas. It's the least I can do, given my education and background as an esteemed Professor at Bruisington University.

Take a look at this picture of a so-called "banana pepper":

Does that, in any stretch of the imagination, look like this most glorious of fruits?

I claim that it does not. The Capsicum annuum is a member of the pepper family. It is a crunchy, tangy and spicy vegetable.

Bananas, as we all know, are in the genus, Musa, and are a sweet fruit, for pete's sake. The two are categorically dissimilar, i.e., have nothing to do with each other! Humans seem to think that just because something is yellow-ish and has a little curve to it, that it's related to bananas!

As an aside, the original scientific name for bananas was Musa sapientum meaning, roughly, "Muse of the wise." But I digress.

Where was I? Oh yes, I'm at the point in this dissertation where I demand that the name of those little spicy peppers be changed to something completely unrelated to the King of Fruits. The scientific community will, I'm sure, back me on this. I propose a new name that reflects the peppers' spiciness and curvature:

The Spurvy Pepper

All with me, say "Aye!"

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