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Ladies![edit]

"he served his banana splits with the bananas unpeeled until he discovered that ladies preferred them peeled." Yeah, it's in the cited document, but it's still a pretty hilarious misogynistic statement. I think it should stay. ~ Strathmeyer (talk) 01:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Older Discussion[edit]

The following is a hilarious double entendre: He served his banana splits with the bananas unpeeled until he discovered that ladies preferred them peeled.

But is it true? (I don't believe it. Unpeeled, split bananas covered in ice cream and toppings? No one is that foolish.)

If the banana split was invented in 1904, how could its centennial be celebrated the same year?

I believe that originally, the bananas weren't cut in half. They were split in thirds by hand....as shown in the video on this page.

I think the picture should be removed. It is not a banana split. Not because it served in a strange container as the caption points out, but because it does not have the toppings on it. The picture adds nothing. It does not look like a banana split, nor does it even show all the ingredients. What is its purpose then?

As it says: variations aboud. This is the sort of banana split I was brought up on, just banana cut in half with chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream scoops and grated chocolate on top. Until a better picture is put forward, I say keep this one. —Cel es tianpower ^háblame 12:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I updated the image. The other was horrendous.

Ref to Australia in the lead[edit]

I've just removed a sentence describing an alleged Australian banana split from the lead; some Googling has turned up nothing that indicates it was correct, and as it was unreferenced I felt it would be best to remove it for now. If someone comes up with a good reference, go ahead and put it back... Tony Fox (arf!) 03:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

correcting infobox to match article[edit]

The article clearly identifies the inventor as David Evans Strickler and the location as Latrobe PA, with citations supporting those assertions; and yet the infobox says "Multiple claims" and "Northeast." I am changing the infobox to agree with the article, which includes other probably independent but later inventors of similar desserts. I do not, by the way, have any vested interest in this subject: I am making this change only for harmony within the article.--Jim10701 (talk) 17:39, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Banana Split Pie[edit]

Well that was sure quite a bit of chatter for something so inane. I guess I'll leave you "gentlemen" to it.

Sceak 00:42, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reads Like an Advert[edit]

This bit: "with food, fun and events for kids and adults to enjoy" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.228.156.103 (talk) 16:46, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The magic pharmacy[edit]

The article states that "Strickler went on to buy the pharmacy" without ever having mentioned a pharmacy at all. Was he renting a pharmacy? Is "buy the pharmacy" an idiom I should be familiar with? Was there only one pharmacy on earth at this time in history and his buying it was akin to buying "the Taj Mahal"? Itsmequinn1011 (talk) 12:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

He is mentioned as being an optometrist and I suspect was initially renting premises for that purpose. After he developed the sundae and had more money he probably brought the premises, remodelled the ground floor as a pharmacy/drugstore selling the sundaes, and relocated his optometrist business upstairs (as the text says). Of course, this is just speculation. Ponsonby100 (talk) 13:02, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]