Meaning
A breakfast porridge made from banana — most often the green (unripe) banana grated into a thick base, though ripe banana is sometimes blended in for sweetness — cooked with coconut or condensed milk and warm spices. Filling and nourishing, banana porridge is one of the family of Jamaican provision porridges served to start the day strong.
Examples
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Mumma mek banana porridge fi breakfast.
Mum made banana porridge for breakfast.
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Di banana porridge thick an sweet.
The banana porridge is thick and sweet.
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Nutmeg an cinnamon flavour di banana porridge.
Nutmeg and cinnamon flavour the banana porridge.
Origin
From 'banana' + 'porridge'; a provision breakfast porridge. See [[green-banana-porridge]], [[plantain-porridge]].
How it’s used
A banana breakfast porridge (usually green banana). See [[green-banana-porridge]], [[plantain-porridge]].