Bananadrama

I love bananas, especially on toast, or mushed up with evaporated milk and sugar; mmm, that is some good eating. But apparently there’s enough quinine in fifteen bananas to kill you, dead! I don’t know if that’s a fact, a friend told me a doctor had told her, but it’s not something I really want to put to the test. In fact everyone else I tell this to always doubts the theory, but never enough to actually set out and prove it false. Imagine if they did? What would happen? Would it be a slow gradual decline into fruit poisoning, or would you be ok until the fifteenth banana and then suddenly drop dead? And what if you lost count? ‘Is that 14 or 15?’ ‘I can’t remember.’ ‘How are you feeling?’ ‘Fine...’ ‘Have one more then.’ ‘Ow! Ow!’ [doff] ‘Looks like it’s true guys, fifteen it is- Oh no wait a minute, he’s still moving. Do we have anymore?’ ‘Argh, no wait! I, I think I’m gonna be ok...’ ‘Well just hang on and we’ll try another five.’