Handsome Sara Bareilles asks about ripe bananas
Mar 3, 2026
Chatty banter about touring life, bus routines, and sleepless drives. A playful debate over banana ripeness, freezing tips, and peanut-butter pairings. Wild tangents into mud wrestling and live show planning. A sentimental close about music and memory.
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Sarah Bareilles Asks The Two Banana Dilemma
- Sarah Bareilles posed a playful ethical dilemma: given two bananas (one perfectly ripe, one too ripe), which do you eat to avoid waste?
- Mae, Tig, and Fortune each shared personal banana habits, revealing preferences for slightly green or ripe-for-baking bananas.
Accidental Banana Peel Experiment
- Mae joked about apologizing to whichever banana she leaves behind and shared a quirky patent-like story about tasting banana peel making the fruit taste like tomato.
- The hosts riffed on banana-opening techniques and monkey-style peeling.
Ripe Spots Signal Baking Not Eating
- Mae Martin prefers slightly green bananas and sees spotted brown ones as baking/smoothie ingredients.
- She warns a chalky green is unappealing and brown-speckled bananas are best reserved for banana bread or smoothies.