koko added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on
8/4/2010 in writing
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:32:04 -0400, DanS.
> > wrote:
>
>> My daughter's marching band's picnic is Saturday. I want to make a
>> fresh fruit salad - as her section is assigned "fruit." Last year, I
>> seem to recall the bananas got mushy between the start of practice -
>> 8am and the picnic at 8pm.
>>
>> It's just a bunch of fresh fruit cut up and mixed with peach pie fillng
>> just before serving. I'm sure the attendants won't want to cut my
>> bananas for me as there will be over 1000 people at the picnic.
>>
>> How can I keep the bananas white and not mushy that long? Not sure
>> dipping in lemon juice will work.
>
> Were it me, I'd mix the sliced bananas with the peach pie filling then
> add the rest of the fruit before serving. I don't think the bananas
> would get mushy in that amount of time and coating them with the
> filling would protect them from oxidizing.
>
> koko

This seems to be my favorite idea so far. Also, must admit, it's at
6pm. I mistyped. But 10 hrs/12 hrs, no difference.

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Dan S.
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