Also known as Plantain. One of the main staple foods of the world, cultivated in many places of Africa and some parts of South America. Contains large amounts of starch and sugar, their leaves are often used as dishes too, because you don't need to wash them after the meal.
Cookingbanana can also be mixed with sugar, vinegar and spices to make a banana ketchup.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)