Mellow Yellow
Not sure if bindun yet?

Back in the hazy days of 1998 whilst I was still at secondary school, a rumour was going around that you could have a legal high with an oven and a certain type of fruit.

Smoking banana skins. Anyone remember it?

A bunch of mates and I duely bought some (well, enough to feed the monkey enclosure at London Zoo for a week) bananas, took them round to Gills house (the friend who ALWAYS had a free house as her parents worked away a lot as they were in the film industry), and started the experiment.

The idea was to put the banana-less skins in the oven, cook for 3-4 hours, scrape the black paste off, mix with tobacco and put in Rizlas to smoke.

It seemed to take an age for the banana skins to form the paste. That's because it did. It took so long that we whiled away the (6) hours by drinking alcohol.

When the paste had "set" (in reality turned to a black hard crust), we set about scraping it and making the cigarettes (the kicker being i don't even smoke!).
After about 4 of the home-made fags (smoked one after the other, passed between the 5 of us), and no effect whatsoever, we gave up.

Mellow Yellow, my arse. I'll be sticking to vodka in the future.


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(Saire_B, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 0:32, 4 replies)

the way I heard it
was to get the stringy bits from the inside of the banana skin, dry them and smoke them.

I never tried it though, although I did smoke nutmeg. That really can get you high (by eating it, not smoking it), but it's the kind of high that leaves you scared and sleepless for 5 or so days and the difference between what it takes to get you high and a lethal dose is extremely small, and you have to eat about 2 tablespoons of the crap, which is harder than it sounds.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 3:35, closed)

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"Smoking banana skins. Anyone remember it?"

This is a hoax!

See the Wikipedia article on Bananadine for more details. It's basically just something that someone made up.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 12:14, closed)

bananaskins
I tried this in 1968, and it didn't work then either!
BTW if you think 1998 is hazy, just wait...
(in-knock-you-us, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 12:47, closed)

Oh right.
Guess it was worth an attempt.

I just remember the rumour circulating around my school (and the others in the area), but then I suppose we'd of tried to smoke almost anything to have induced a temporal shift of the mind.

We were 16...
(Saire_B, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:50, closed)