Banana Pudding Lovers Month

home made banana pudding. Photo courtesy of Stu Spivack

Banana Pudding Lovers Month is in November in the United States.

This is a commercially created holiday created by, perhaps naturally, a pudding company. Namely, Rodgers' Pudding Company.

This is a dessert pudding that, of course, uses bananas in it. In its most common variant, it rather resembles an English trifle and is a dish associated with Southern cuisine in the U.S.

To make the pudding, cookies, particularly vanilla wafers or ladyfingers, vanilla flavoured custard and sliced fresh bananas are placed in a dish. These are placed in layers, and then more layers of the same are repeated with the dish then topped with either meringue or whipped cream. This would be a refrigerated dessert, but there are also baked variants of the dish.

There are even two banana pudding festivals; the National Banana Pudding Festival in Tennessee and the Georgia State Banana Pudding Festival in Georgia.