The three of them sat in their small ring, soberly eating the sweet young bananas, while Workers politely scuttled to and fro, removing the discarded skins.

This is different from the soft and sweet banana (which is often called dessert banana).

From freshly caught fish, to locally grown fruit, from spicy curries to sweet fried bananas, there is something here for every taste bud and palate.

From tiny little sweet bananas, to giant plantains that need to be cooked, there is a banana size for everyone.

TO many Americans raised on eating sweet, mushy bananas, it is difficult to imagine one that does not taste sweet and needs to be cooked.

They taste like a very sweet banana, are earthy and a little slippery.

There is mojarra frita, fried porgy, a dish accompanied by potato, casava and green or sweet bananas.

Tender financier cakes filled with tart raspberry or blueberry filling or sweet banana, are $1.75 each.

And yet, surprise: the combination of the sweet banana and hot chili simulates the best of Caribbean jerk cooking.

Dessert was tiny sweet bananas and an assortment of sugary pink and green rice cakes.