1.   If you buy green bananas a handy tip for speeding up their ripening is to put them in a bag together with some apples or kiwi fruit.

2.   At my age I do not buy green bananas.

3.   Green bananas breathe slowly, Corriher says, but ripe bananas breathe very fast.

4.   Grilled green bananas will taste like hot, unripe bananas.

5.   He offered three visitors plastic cups full of crunchy, savory green bananas which he had sauteed with onions to accompany his bistec.

6.   These are not the sort of people who buy green bananas.

7.   Sighted from a Rwandan Air Force helicopter, a small black cone was forming in what was once a green banana plantation on the border with Rwanda.

8.   Sighted from a Rwandan Air Force helicopter, a small black cone could be seen forming in what was once a green banana plantation on the border with Rwanda.

9.   The citizens of this Caribbean capital awoke Friday to the surprising sight of tons of green bananas dumped in front of the entrances of some official buildings.