Have you ever seen mold on a banana? Maybe I’ve led a sheltered life, but up until this morning every banana I’d ever seen had been entirely mold-free. Sure, I’ve seen totally soft, dark brown, overripe bananas, and I’ve even seen shriveled-up, dried-out, way-too-old bananas, but a moldy banana was a new one to me.

We have a bunch of bananas in our fruit basket, and this morning I noticed that the peel of one of them had a sort of tan spot with about half a dozen sea-green mold spores growing on it. These bananas are barely ripe, so I knew that the mold wasn’t a sign of rot. Out of curiosity, I opened the banana, and it was completely fine inside — it was nice and firm, and not even a bit discolored anywhere. I was kind of grossed out by the mold so I gave it to the dogs instead of eating it myself, but I think it probably would have been okay to eat. Olof says that he thinks that something got on the peel (like maybe part of some other fruit or something), and that the “foreign substance” was what the mold was growing on. It sounds like a good theory to me, so I’m going with that. Weird.