Starting from the 1930s, American food companies, including the United Fruit Company, promoted recipes featuring bananas through various cookbooks. The idea to combine bananas with meatloaf emerged, with a notable recipe published in 1941. The recipe incorporates ground beef, seasonings, breadcrumbs, and mashed bananas, along with suggestions to bake bananas with the meatloaf. Receivers of the dish have criticized its flavor and texture. Although the recipe seems outdated and unappealing to many, variations can still be found online.
Starting in the 1930s, promotional cookbooks featuring bananas emerged, with banana meatloaf becoming a notable recipe promoted by the banana industry, especially by the United Fruit Company.
The 1947 'Chiquita Banana's Recipe Book' includes various dishes with bananas, like cheesy ham and banana rolls, as part of its promotional efforts.
The banana meatloaf recipe includes ground beef, onion, seasonings, breadcrumbs, and mashed bananas, suggesting baking bananas alongside for serving.
Feedback from a YouTube cook indicated that banana meatloaf was salty and lacked flavor, with a wet texture, and a Reddit user remarked on its unappealing taste.
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