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I hope I don't offend anyone by making the following statement but, well, I can't help it.

I hate bananas. They're gross.

And yet, I have to buy about fifteen bunches of bananas a week for work. My boss is awesome. He likes to provide fresh fruit to the employees every day. So every few days, I head out to the grocery store and pick up about a thousand pounds of bananas, oranges, apples, whatever berries happen to be in stock. You get the picture.

And yes, the people with whom I work are fiends for bananas.

But seriously, bananas are just so gross.

Except...I can remember liking them when I was a kid. I remember eating them and enjoying them. Then one day, when I was about four, I started to eat one and it was disgusting.

Now, even the smell of bananas grosses me out.

People are constantly trying to get me to eat banana bread or banana muffins. "Come on," they say. "It's great. You can barely taste the banana."

Right. Barely taste the bananas. I'm not okay with 'barely' tasting something I find repulsive.

And don't get me started on banana candy. Ugh!! Whatever artificial flavoring used to create this stuff should be banned. It's awful!! Those little machines that sell fruit shaped candy at the entrances of stores are just sick. But at least you know what you're getting if you go ahead and eat that tiny banana-shaped piece of candy.

You know a candy I really, really like? Cotton candy. Oooh, the sticky goodness of cotton candy.

I'll buy that stuff whenever I come across it. It's just so sweetly wonderful.

I don't usually think about cotton candy being flavored, so I'll buy whatever color I happened to reach out and grab.

Except...I'll never, ever again buy yellow cotton candy. Because it might be banana flavored. And that's just gross.

That happened to me only once, the banana-flavored cotton candy. It was awful.

Yet I finished the entire tub. Evidently, sugar trumps gross, at least for me.