Banana Challenge

About

The Banana Challenge is a dare game that involves attempting to eat a banana through pantyhose covering the participant’s face or to spit a chewed banana through the pantyhose into a cup.

Origin

The banana challenge began as a game for youth groups and camps to play in the late ’90s. A description of the banana-spitting version was written on a community forum on YouthPaster.com^[4] on October 1st, 1998, under the name “banana blowout:”

"Pick two unsuspecting teenagers (the younger, the better!).
Cut the legs off the hosiery. Use the two legs to place over the heads of the two contestants challenge them to chew up a banana in their mouths as gushy as possible. Then place the legs of the pantyhose completely over their heads. Hand them a cup and tell them that they have to push the banana from their mouths through the pantyhose into the cup they are holding.

Of course, none will go through. For fun, pull the top of the legs as they are pushing to smear it all over their faces. It is one of the funniest pranks we have ever played. We use it every year to initiate our newest members!"

Spread

On August 24th, 2006, YouTuber skrockstar^[1] uploaded a video titled “banana challenge.” The video depicted a man trying to push banana he had chewed up through the pantyhose he had on his head into a plastic cup. As of January 2014 the video has over 2,200 views. On March 26th, 2011, YouTuber Ashton Craig-Parlier^[3] uploaded a video of teens in a youth group racing each other to eat bananas through pantyhose.

On January 28th, 2014, Buzzfeed^[2] published a post titled, “Apparently People Have Been Trying To Eat Bananas Through Pantyhose On YouTube,” that featured a collection of YouTube videos of kids and teens conducting the challenge.

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