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I personally prefer a 9 or 10, and would rather an 11 than an 8

I think they're a bit tangy when green and don't like them that way. I prefer full on yellow, perhaps with a smidge of browning.

I prefer mine with freckles.

Yellow with freckles. Green is too starchy and weird tasting to me. I like a ripe banana.

Yellowish green. Fiber, sweetness and not a choking hazard.

Love a 50/50 green yellow banana. When they have a good snap and that green taste? Yummm

Barely no longer green

Between no Green and no brown. So that narrows it down to about 15 minutes. I prefer a bit of brown to a bit of Green

A decent amount of green, there's like a one or two day window where it's possible to peel them normally without the peel snapping, but where there's still a little bit of the underripe sourness to them

Spotty or oozing, which is just right for banana bread.

Firm, slightly green still.

Yellow, fully ripe bananas, are high in fructans which for me and many others, cause digestion issues, discomfort, and that lingering taste/feeling.

Thoroughly freckled, nearly alcohol.

Yellow with freckles on the peel

yellow for eating directly, brown for banana bread.

7

Half brown, sweet

For eating, when they have significant brown spots on them. For baking or banana-yoghurt when they are completely brown.
Also obligatory: How Brown has a banana to be, to be Bad?

Browned and then mashed and then made into banana bread

3-4 for me.

still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.

Same. Bananas, avocados, and artichokes all get this weird but similar taste when they get ripe beyond the point I can enjoy them. Idk what it is exactly or even how to describe the taste, but some people seem to either not notice a difference or actively be seeking it out.

Most ready made guacamole always seems to have that same flavor. Honestly not sure if there's even a name for it, but it almost makes me gag.

Non existent. I do not recognise this object as food.

Stop trolling. Green bananas are disgusting.

I better eat this now, because I won't be able to in a couple of hours.

I prefer a very ripe banana, though uncooked makes my mouth itchy and I get violent heartburn... I'm allergic to cross pollination in bananas, so I can only eat them cooked.

Usually the one they were yesterday.

The yellowest one that doesn't have too much brown. If there's some green it usually won't taste as sweet, but if it's too brown it will be mushy and gross.

Do plantains count? If so may I introduce you to the illustrious jibarito

I really like them almost entirely brown, mashed up with butter and mixed with some flour, sugar, an egg or two and a hint of vanilla extract, all baked in the oven for like an hour.

As with most things I have a "in the moment" preference. I'm not gonna be sad if they're as OP described or very brown and sweet, but I'll have a "man, I would have rather have them this way" and what way that is is different from time to time. Can have one or several hours, days, weeks or months of preferring one kind then it'll just change. Generally like change and things to be different rather than the same all the time.

I dont know when in the lifecycle of a banana this happens, but after they transformed into banana ice cream

green to lime yellow.

I like the freshness and grassy flavor.

my parents would eat them black and it just put me off them.

I rarely have a banana unless it's with rice crispys or cheerios.

They are not ripe unless spotted.

They are over ripe if brown.