For those of you (like me) who always wondered why Chrissy Teigen shares so much on social media, it may have been revealed that there is actually a method to her madness. On Thursday, Chrissy was trying to make banana bread (presumably a recipe for her upcoming cookbook). Unfortunately, she was missing one key ingredient for said bread… brown bananas. Finding herself in a produce predicament, Chrissy took to Twitter to ask her foodie followers if hey could help her out in her time of need. She tweeted, “if u have 6 BROWN bananas in the LA area, I will send my assistant to your home with a signed cookbook, John’s underwear and a Becca palette.”
if u have 6 BROWN bananas in the LA area, I will send my assistant to your home with a signed cookbook, John's underwear and a Becca palette
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 21, 2017
As expected, Chrissy got a lot of responses. To verify that the responders definitely had overripe bananas, Chrissy followed up with, “SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY. please send me a photo of u holding the bananas giving the peace sign.”
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY. please send me a photo of u holding the bananas, giving the peace sign
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 21, 2017
Among the people who offered to help out was one Meg Zukin, who only had five bananas. Apparently, the stars aligned for Meg, and Chrissy took her up on the fruit. Meg told Refinery29, “I saw her tweet this morning and replied with the photos of the bananas. I only had five, and she wanted six, so I wasn’t sure if I’d be worthy enough, but then she DM’d me and asked for my address and number. Then, her assistant texted me for details.”
SO CLOSE. she might kill me if she has to drive to multiple homes across LA https://t.co/k7bvlH93rO
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 21, 2017
Before Chrissy sent for the bananas, she asked Meg to send a video of her tasting them to make sure they weren’t tainted. Meg agreed and soon, Chrissy’s mom, Vilailuck, showed up with the swag. The event was memorialized in photos which (of course) were shared by Chrissy, the deal was done and Meg has a story for the ages.
the deal has been done. thank you, @bymeg!!!! pic.twitter.com/f1wDrzO31Z
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 21, 2017
already home. that was…so fast. I will now do all grocery shopping like this pic.twitter.com/DLAzKvDezI
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 21, 2017
Meg, a writer (a/k/a my kind of people), posted pics of her haul on Twitter. I probably should have known John was a Calvin Klein underwear kind of guy.
so…. should I frame the underwear or what? @chrissyteigen pic.twitter.com/Xs0lXXpuJ9
— meg zukin (@bymeg) September 21, 2017
Who knew being unemployed and skipping a workout class would prove to be so lucrative #nannergate @chrissyteigen pic.twitter.com/I2c2AE4f8w
— meg zukin (@bymeg) September 21, 2017
Fans tweeted Chrissy’s hubby, John, asking him if he knew his undies were used to obtain bananas. One Legend-ary fan tweeted, “we need to know if @johnlegend knows you just gave away a pair of his underwear,” to which the singer responded, “Yes and I approve. Can’t make banana bread without brown bananas!”
Yes and I approve. Can't make banana bread without brown bananas!
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 21, 2017
Cute story, right? It is, but I have questions. First, why couldn’t Chrissy go to the store herself? A quick Google search brings up lots of ways to ripen bananas in just a few minutes. (But Chrissy shot down offerings of banana ripening hacks.) Also, is her mom her assistant? I couldn’t ask my mom to go to some random person’s house for bananas I was too lazy to just run down to the store and get myself. Why is her dog wearing a bellhop outfit? Oh, and were they clean underwear? (I feel bad that I actually thought about this.) We need answers, Teigen. And the recipe because I also love banana bread.
Side note: John, currently appearing in an ad campaign for Capri Sun, told US Magazine that daughter Luna is already becoming quite the foodie at the tender age of 16 months. According to Jon, little Luna “eats grown up food,” adding, “She loves pretty much anything! We have traveled a lot and we’ve cooked a lot at the house and she pretty much eats whatever we eat. We just make sure it’s not too spicy. She’s had Asian cuisine, Italian, American and soul food.” Following in mama’s footsteps already. Hopefully she will learn to make a grocery list as she grows up. Sheesh.
Photos: WENN.com and Backgrid
There’s too many brown bananas at every store I go to. Some people really do use social media for every silly thing
I found that super strange. I mean why not go to the store? Branding I suppose. I mean, it does get us talking about her, right?
Gets us talking about her cookbook, too 😉
And the Becca palette that she collab’d on
I actually think it was pretty cool. She made a fun game of it, and a fan of hers or John’s got some cool swag, John’s undies being the linchpin, of course.
This was a funny break from doom and gloom on Twitter. I’m pretty sure Chrissy has an actual assistant but I know her mom helps her with Luna
I thought it was funny and she was just interacting with her followers. She seems to be one of those famous people who feel connected to her fans and likes to bring them into her life. Chrissy may overshare, but she is unusual in that she recognizes her fans care about her and she cares about them. She doesn’t act like she is entitled to their devotion.
I agree. This Chrissy caper was a welcome distraction from the Trump tantrums and general hell-in-a-handbasket news that fills my Twitter feed nowadays.
And I have her cookbook. The recipes are fantastic. If this banana bread shows up in the second one, it was worth it to me.
Hopefully she will learn to make a grocery list as she grows up
No, she won’t (and learn from whom anyway). Because she’s never gonna need one, because just like her dear mom, she’ll have paid employees to cater her every whim and wish. Problem solved.
Does she have a compulsion to tweet every damn Thing? Is she suffering from some kind of loneliness or complex that makes her want to live on social media? Few days ago, she tweeted at her hubby asking him why he isn’t picking up his phone? Later, during the Trump Vs NFL issue, she tweeted at him again asking him why he could tweet at Trump but not text her? Why do you tweet at someone you share same bed with? Should everything be on SM? I don’t get it!
I don’t either. I think she’s weird as hell.
I agree! I’m curious how many hours per day she is online. God she is thirsty.
Soooooooooo funny
I actually think it was a fun way to engage with her fans. Usually I side eye the over sharing, but this is fun( and positive PR.)
I think so too. AND I didn’t know she was doing a cook book before this!!
her cook book has gotten really good reviews.
I think she’s working on her second cookbook now. The first one (pictured above) is really good!
All pr but done well. Makes her look sympathetic and relatable (who hasn’t been in that situation were ur in the middle of a baking situation and found out you’re out of sugar?) and plus free promo for her new cookbook and showing the public that all is well in teigenlegend land.
Pretty funny, but all you have to do is stick yellow bananas in the freezer for an hour or two. Easiest hack on the planet.
That will turn the peels brown, but the banana inside is still at the same ripeness level it was prior to chilling. Chrissy needed overripe bananas for her recipe, and there’s no way to accelerate perfectly ripe bananas to the overripe stage in a couple of hours. It takes days.
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You’re right. I actually keep bananas in the fridge because I like them better chilled. Takes a long time (several days, even longer than a week) for them to become spotted and even longer for them to become truly brown on the outside and very ripe on the inside. I freeze banana slices frequently (after peeling) and they don’t change into very ripe bananas very fast either. Tasty, though. Like instant ice cream, one slice at a time.
Is it really impossible to make banana bread with non-brown bananas? My roommate in grad school used to make it (with sunflower seeds, so it had little pockets of green everywhere that we first worried was toxic but it didn’t kill us … No internet to find out in those days. Turns out sunnies just turn greenish when moist). Anyway, I don’t recall any brown bananas in the kitchen.
A lot of negativity already over bananas. Yikes. I don’t know where people buy brown bananas, btw. I’ve never seen any where I shop.
That is one cute family btw.
I’ve never seen brown bananas in a store either. If I did, I would probably notify the manager. Yuck.
When she needs them, my sister gets hers at Publix and Walmart
I’m not in the US but over here I shop at supermarkets (regular and organic) and verious farmers’ market. The brownest I’ve seen were found in organic supermarkets. But those had a few spots at most. Interesting.
i grew up in LA, i can’t think of a store that carries brown bananas off the top of my head.
i saw a pic of the finished product, i.e. the banana bread and it seemed worth all this fuss 🙂
I don’t think the stores have bananas that brown.
I bought bananas the other day (little more on the green side) and I waited a couple of days but I needed them more ripened. Someone told me to wrap them in newspaper. It worked!
Hiya, Guest. Does that tip develop the sugars and deepen the flavour of the bananas? I’ve tried a few tips. None worked. Sure, they’ve softened the bananas, but that’s it. It won’t be a problem now, as the temperature has soared. I make a lot of banana bread and muffins, but don’t like “banana-flavoured” food of any kind, so give most of it away. My dilemma is that I love bananas, but they must still have a little bit of green. Just gone yellow is just ok, but after that, it’s off to the prep table to brown off, ready for baking.
Luna is adorable. And her chubby little feet…oooooooh!
Hi Annakist, yes the bananas is fully yellow and soft, which was what I needed. And yes it does devlope the sugar and flavor.
I’m the opposite, I love banana flavored food : )
Try putting the bananas in the refrigerator while they still have a bit of green. They will stay that way a lot longer than at room temperature. Also I think they taste better cold. I don’t like them really ripe either for straight eating.
Eh, she’s harmless.
Sure she overshares on social media, but who doesn’t? I mean I know what my ex boyfriends sister had for breakfast today, from Facebook.
Don’t see why people are so bothered by her posts – don’t like what she shares? Don’t follow her. Simples.
Personally I like her relentless sniping at the turd in chief, and find the rest of her babbling completely harmless and somewhat entertaining.
I don’t have Facebook, and am very glad of it. Having said that, it was very helpful twice this week. Last Thursday night, we noticed our new rescue dog was bleeding, and discovered she’d cut her foot on something. My daughter asked her nursing friends, who have show dogs, what to do. Doggie was walking normally, and didn’t seem to be in pain or mind us lifting her paw. They both said to bathe it in salt water, wrap it and get to the vet in the morning. One of them went a step further, and contacted a mobile vet she knows. He called my daughter, who sent him a photo and told him what she’d done. He said that was good, and because she had something urgent on the next day (I’m incapacitated and don’t drive, so….useless) he said he’d call in the next morning. He did, and sorted out the problem – stitches etc. – very reasonably priced, and a very good-looking, 30ish Canadian…
On Saturday night, daughter was cleaning up after painting the entire downstairs, and slashed her thumb on a sharp piece of metal on a portable oven. Again, she put up a message on FB. One nurse was just going on shift, the other had just come off, and had to pass our house to get home. She dressed the deep wound, and warned it might require surgery. The doc told her yesterday she’d cut the nerves, so she is having surgery tomorrow in a specialist hand unit of another public hospital. We are changing our last name to Murphy.
Lol!!
Say what you will about Chrissy, but her first cookbook is actually awesome. Every recipe that I made (approximately 10 or so) is great. I am looking forward to the second book!
I really do need to know why the dog is dressed as a bell hop.
Same!!
I’ve tried ripening bananas with hacks before and it didn’t seem to be the same. I keep a few jars of banana baby on hand for baking. I’ve always been rather frugal so when my son was little I picked up that trick. I have been known to use other flavors in different breads instead of a jam or jelly. It drives my Mother in law crazy that I don’t follow recipes exactly but she loves to eat the final product.
It’s cute. It’s harmless. People like to complain about Chrissy –> more clicks –> more stories about Chrissy –> people get more annoyed. It’s a vicious cycle.
she strikes me as very needy. does she not get enough attention at home?
She’s exhausting…
I’m not gonna hate. I HATE it when I’m baking & don’t have all my ingredients. Esp if it’s something like a brown banana, which takes days to ripen so you have to plan ahead. I wish I could get someone to do the same for me. None of my friends even like desserts. Its so disappointing. :/
I think this was clearly designed to draw up publicity, but honestly, I am fine with this, because it’s a FUN way of doing it. Everybody involved clearly had a good time. I can deal with Teigen because she seems to understand that celebrity should have a certain element of the absurd to it.
I think Chrissy is adorable on social media. I this this seemed like a fun way to get some bananas.
Agreed. I straight up adore her. She gives absolutely no s**ts. People on here (a CELEBRITY GOSSIP SITE) who are decrying her for over-exposed tweeting and divulging too much….let’s be honest…we come here to get the dirt. It aint always exciting dirt. Sometimes it’s brown bananas, but that’s why we’re here.
Chrissy entertains me. I don’t follow her on social media so I only know of her antics from here. I always read the posts about her, they make me laugh. She seems harmless.
Her assistant looks like a child! God damn, I bet I could do that job!