holedigger, how do Ice Cream bananas taste in your own personal opinion? I've always wanted to taste one, but they don't sell the fruit here, at least not that I know of.

Ice creams are small bananas, about half the size of the supermarket variety.They taste best when completely ripe. The peel should be leathery, completely yellow including the stem. I don't think they would travel well as they tend to bruise easy. I don't like the flavor when the stems are still green or once they start to brown. They are very sweet and dense, they almost have a vanilla taste at the back of the tongue. A very intense sweetness that you don't find in commercial bananas, but not really like vanilla ice cream. I only get to taste them approximately every march for a few weeks. This year we had flooky weather and they ripened before I had a chance to cut them down, which meant 10 hands of ripe fruit at one time. Usually, I cut down the bunch before any signs of yellowing and can have fruit for over a month.