1. a tasty, TASTY treat made with a Banana, ice cream, chocolate, caramel and strawberry toppings or something like them in some semblance of that order, with
whipped cream, nut sprinkles, in a special Vessel called a Banana Boat. Made for eating on hot days in summer, or when the consumer feels crappy and needs victuals for oroesopha-Gastrointestinal comforting...
2. When pluralised, and preceded by the specific 'The', as The
Banana Splits,
is a children's cartoon, that defies that
description, given the content and the time (Late sixties vintage) that it was made...
tra la la, tra la la, tra la la!
Tra la la, tra la la, tra la la...
one
banana, two
banana....
You get
the rest.