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Will Smoking Banana Peels Get You High – What is Bananadine?
Today’s Q&A comes from the Velveteen Lounge kitsch-en YouTube Channel and it’s all about smoking banana peels.
Honestly, I’d never heard of anything like that so my buddy’s sent me some documents from The Straight Dope website where Cecil, a modern day Ann Landers answered questions and gave advice. This time a character by the name of Leper Naaman wrote to Cecil saying quote:
“Getting high off of banana joints. Is there really a chemical called “bananadine”? If so, can you really get high from smoking dried-out banana skins?”
For the most part Cecil’s response was at best belittling. So let’s skip those parts and really get to the heart of the matter.
Since it’s 2002, I punched bananadine into Google.com. Seconds later I was looking at the following recipe:
1. Obtain 15 lb. of ripe yellow bananas.
2. Peel the bananas and eat the fruit. Save the skins.
3. With a sharp knife, scrape off the insides of the skins and save the scraped material.
4. Put all scraped material in a large pot and add water. Boil for three to four hours until it has attained a solid paste consistency.
5. Spread this paste on cookie sheets and dry it in an oven for about 20-30 minutes. This will result in a fine black powder (bananadine). Usually one will feel the effects of bananadine after smoking three or four cigarettes.
The recipe was attributed to The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell. Mr. Powell is very vocal in seeking the book he wrote to be discontinued. He says “The Anarchist Cookbook was written during 1968 and part of 1969 soon after I graduated from high school. At the time, I was 19 years old and the Vietnam War and the so-called ‘counter culture movement’ were at their height. … The book, in many respects, was a misguided product of my adolescent anger at the prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam,”
Powell says he got much of the information from military manuals at the New York Public Library, although it’s likely the banana recipe came from somewhere else. The Anarchist Cookbook is still available, its author reduced to pleading that the book is “misguided and potentially dangerous.”
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By The Trigonal PodcastWill Smoking Banana Peels Get You High – What is Bananadine?
Today’s Q&A comes from the Velveteen Lounge kitsch-en YouTube Channel and it’s all about smoking banana peels.
Honestly, I’d never heard of anything like that so my buddy’s sent me some documents from The Straight Dope website where Cecil, a modern day Ann Landers answered questions and gave advice. This time a character by the name of Leper Naaman wrote to Cecil saying quote:
“Getting high off of banana joints. Is there really a chemical called “bananadine”? If so, can you really get high from smoking dried-out banana skins?”
For the most part Cecil’s response was at best belittling. So let’s skip those parts and really get to the heart of the matter.
Since it’s 2002, I punched bananadine into Google.com. Seconds later I was looking at the following recipe:
1. Obtain 15 lb. of ripe yellow bananas.
2. Peel the bananas and eat the fruit. Save the skins.
3. With a sharp knife, scrape off the insides of the skins and save the scraped material.
4. Put all scraped material in a large pot and add water. Boil for three to four hours until it has attained a solid paste consistency.
5. Spread this paste on cookie sheets and dry it in an oven for about 20-30 minutes. This will result in a fine black powder (bananadine). Usually one will feel the effects of bananadine after smoking three or four cigarettes.
The recipe was attributed to The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell. Mr. Powell is very vocal in seeking the book he wrote to be discontinued. He says “The Anarchist Cookbook was written during 1968 and part of 1969 soon after I graduated from high school. At the time, I was 19 years old and the Vietnam War and the so-called ‘counter culture movement’ were at their height. … The book, in many respects, was a misguided product of my adolescent anger at the prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam,”
Powell says he got much of the information from military manuals at the New York Public Library, although it’s likely the banana recipe came from somewhere else. The Anarchist Cookbook is still available, its author reduced to pleading that the book is “misguided and potentially dangerous.”
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-johno-show/support