Oh yea, it adds 40% to your FTP, 400W to your sprint, grows hair on your head and grows your junk by 4" ![]()
A very under-ripe banana (ordinarly I’d say a banana is one of the best). I was in the office yesterday and there’s often a fruit bowl. The bananas they had though were so under-ripe that the skin wasn’t peeling away from the skin yet and the banana once I got into it tasted like onion or something ![]()
Jonathan’s dream snack!
Is this where we start the thread on what level of ripeness is correct?
My vote is bright yellow skin with just a couple of brown spots. No green left.
I second that vote and I think something about that stage is optimum for energy transfer ![]()
Just in case you weren’t around when this was a “thing”, @Jonathan stated that he likes bananas green and crunchy and he hates them if they have even a single brown spot. #shudder
That opinion is certainly in the correct topic of worst cycling food.![]()
Bananas are In that uncanny valley of ‘regular food but also definitely cycling food.’
It’s an interesting tangent, and on that subject I’d like to add that I am nowhere near pro enough to eat any substantial amount of plain pasta.
Fig Newtons…the original energy bar.
I tune into this thread because the literary/poetic qualities of the descriptions are quite epic. They really share the angst and pain of a horrible experience.

Skratch Labs had a grape flavor drink mix and that is the worst drink mix I’ve ever had. Thankfully they discontinued it.
