the only way to make good banana bread is with your hands. smash the bananas with your fingers, smush them into the flour and wheat germ and sugar and crisco which you think is disgusting but had to add anyway, crunch walnuts between your palms, mix it all together, goo seeping between flourcoated knuckles, scoop it into the pan with the edge of your hand, fingers curled, and lick all the way to your nails even though there were two eggs in the batter and you know you shouldn't.