I usually don't eat bananas plain (I like to cut them up and eat them with Cheerio's) but for some reason I couldn't stop devouring the little dessert bananas. Like pralines, they are addictive.
Cassandra and I decided that dessert bananas are more appetizing for the sole reason that they are so small. I see this phenomenon pop up with other "dainty" foods like donut holes, little fruit tarts, miniature cream puffs, and those adorable tiny rounds of cheese.
When we see a regular-sized donut we may think: "I don't want to eat an entire donut." But put a little donut hole in our line of sight and we begin to think otherwise: "Well, I can make room for just one." (Which is always false doctrine because you inevitably eat a second one and then a third, and before you know it you've eaten the entire box of donut holes.)
So the moral is this: the smaller a piece of food is, the more you want to shove it in your mouth. Humans are such carnal creatures! (Well, maybe just me.)
