- For sure beans, 100% beans.
- Banana peel.
- Oh!
(laughing)
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- Hi everybody, I'm Merle, and today,
we're going to be making
something really, really weird.
I was online and I saw this recipe
for banana peel pulled pork sandwiches.
I'm used to people judging
me for being vegan,
I get it all the time.
But even I was like, "We may have gone
"too far with this one."
I'm gonna follow the
recipe that I've found,
and then I'm gonna bring
in some of my co-workers
and have them try it
without knowing what it is,
and see if banana peels
are a viable ingredient
that we should all be using.
I'm using organic bananas
because she used them.
I did wash these first, so
I would highly advise that.
I'm just gonna set my bananas aside.
Don't worry, they will not go to waste.
I will make a nice little
smoothie out of them later.
She made this look really easy.
Oh my God, it is really easy.
I'm killing this right now.
You know what?
I'm gonna be open-minded
and I, I really hope
that this tastes good.
I'm rooting for the banana peel.
We want that stringy
consistency, stringy texture,
just like pulled pork.
This is what you want it to look like.
Oh God.
Okay, so now it's time to
add all of our flavors.
Feels like a lot of
seasoning for a very little
bit of food, but I think
that's kind of telling.
We'll see.
Oh yeah, look at that,
you can hardly even tell
what it is any more!
I wanna get the texture before I cook it,
and then the texture after I cook it.
Just like a lot of
seasoning on a cold napkin.
Can't taste the banana at all!
Ooh, wow, that's gross.
Can't believe I just ate raw banana peel.
Okay, so now I'm s'posed
to add some water.
Let's add some barbecue sauce.
I'm gonna toast some buns,
plop this baby on there
with some coleslaw and
then I'm gonna try it.
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(breathes deeply)
Ready?
Let's do this.
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That's pretty good.
I'll tell you one thing, it
does not taste like bananas.
The look is good.
The seasoning is on point.
The texture isn't quite there for me yet,
but like, I'm gonna finish this.
This is good enough that this suffices
as lunch for me today.
All right, I'll be back.
I'm gonna whip up some more,
and bring some suckers in here.
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- Okay, that looks interesting first off.
It doesn't look like pulled pork to me.
- Oh, okay.
Oh, oh.
Oh.
- Everything is so
translucent looking, like
it's all so thin and papery.
- What are you looking at?
- I'm looking at this little
piece right here, you see?
- The texture is definitely
very pulled porky.
- It looks like a eggplant or something.
- And then also this, I initially thought
it was a carrot.
- It's a carrot.
- It is a carrot?
- It's coleslaw!
- Oh!
- All right, I'm going in.
- Go.
- I'm nervous.
- Oh wow, that's another way to do it.
I'll give you a couple minutes.
(laughing)
- It's bigger than I thought it would be.
I'm so sorry.
I'm gonna go for another bite.
- You didn't even eat it.
- I didn't?
Where's it at?
- Mm!
Ooh, spicy!
Very sour.
- Sour?
- Better than jackfruit, for sure.
- Let's give it a little lick.
(laughing)
- Didn't even make eye contact
with me while you did that!
- Did you put sweet
and sour sauce in this?
- No!
- I mean, it's obviously not meat,
but it's still good.
- I wish they were honestly
more of the filling,
or whatever the pulled pork.
- I've used a different
vegan substitute ingredient
that one may not normally use.
- Can I guess?
- What is that?
- Paper.
- No!
- It's not bugs, right?
- Cabbage, tofu, soy?
- No, that's very broad, but no.
(laughing)
They could be anything.
- It's not a mushroom?
- No, it's not a mushroom,
it's actually a fruit.
- Beans.
- No.
It's something you normally
throw away from a fruit.
- So it's like an end or?
- It has ends.
- Beans, this is a bean
right here, isn't it?
It's a green bean.
For sure beans, 100% beans.
- Banana peel.
- Oh!
(laughing)
- I got peel!
I got trash!
- I'm eating compost!
(laughing)
- I'm sorry.
- No way, let me try this again.
(laughing)
- Man, you know, banana peels can be used
for a lot of things.
- [Producer] Like what?
(laughing)
- I'm definitely a little freaked out.
But I'm like, I would eat it again.
- I actually liked it a lot.
- Wow, that's crazy!
- It's pretty crazy.
- This even has, like
has a nice tar on it.
- I like pulled pork
better than this, but...
- Mm-hm.
- I will eat this
if this is the substitute.
- I mean it is pretty good.
I'm not vegan and why
would I replace pulled pork
with a banana peel?
(laughing)
Why would I do that?
- It's cheap!
- Ooh!
- And maybe healthier?
- And cutting down on waste, that's good.
- You're like, you're not
gonna do that.
- No.
- I like bananas a lot.
(laughing)
- [Merle] You can cut.
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