But I thought bananas were eggs :(

Someone should tell her that bananas are a GMO. So is rice, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, and mustard. They all exist because humans modified them, if humans didn't exist then neither would those plants.

Ironically the one thing that isn't a GMO is the damn egg.

Well.........
Chickens have been gene modified by 1000's of years of selective breeding. Those eggs, by extension, are therefore gene modified also. Otherwise you wouldn't get more chickens like you want them.
I believe they're referring to the even more specific definition of GMO where genes are manipulated directly rather than indirectly through breeding and domestication.
But you are correct in a general sense. I believe the Wikipedia article for GMO also makes an even more generalized definition where any plant/animal whose genes are modified, by humans or nature, are GMO.
- It's the same arguement against cloned meat. People get upset by the method because they don't understand that the DNA literally doesn't care.
  If you modify you through breeding or through direct genetic manipulation or even through radiation exposure, Which is how they got red grapefruit by the way, the end result is still DNA. It's not weird mutant dangerous DNA, it's just normal DNA which is different to the original. There's no way it can hurt anyone.

The usual vegan recipe complaint: "I wanted to follow your recipe for grandma's meatloaf, but substituted anything offending with the first thing I found on google. Your meatloaf neither looks nor tastes like my Grandma's!"

I just recently found out that (in some cakes) bananes actually can eb eggs. Pretty cool!

Yes, basically in any cake that doesn't have "Egg" in the name :)
- Wouldn't work in my chocolate cake. Or can you tell me how to separate bananas and beat them until stiff and white?
Yes, if the egg is used to deliver wetness. Not when it is used to deliver binding.
I currently having a horrible picture running through my head of an attempt to make my chocolate cake with bananas instead of eggs...
Apple Sauce is a great substitute too! About 60g / ¼ cup per egg. It works especially well in cakes that are already pretty moist, like brownies.

Veganism is a cult. You can't change my mind.

Veganism is ethical. Vegans can be stupid the same way carnivores can be. This reductive belief system may work in a world without critical thinking but I find your comment just as stupid as the one in this post.
There are vegans and then there are militant vegans. And those militant ones tend to be new to veganism. Or they are just straight up assholes.
But the few vegans I have known were very nice people and you wouldn't know they were vegans if you weren't swapping recipes with them.
- I like the militant ones. it's the evangelistic ones that bother me.
Veganism is a specific version of ethics/morality, extended to other organisms beyond humans.
Other specific versions of ethics/morality in the world exist, like religion, political ideologies, cultural norms, etc.
On a philosophical level, it's not different in that regard.
You're just trying to scare bait people from having an open mind about the tradition

I tried a recipe for a cake but I substituted the dry ingredients for buns because they're already baked, I replaced the chocolate with burger, and I replaced the frosting with sauce. Can anyone explain to me why my cake tastes like a hamburger now?

Weirdly enough a mashed banana can be an egg substitute for the right recipe.

My Wife has celiac, so no gluten for her. So when looking for gluten free recipes, we often come across full on vegan recipes with substitutes. A mashed banana for eggs is one of them.

It might work where the egg is not meant to set, where it's basically a binder. But if it is meant to set or firm up then best to use something else. As an aside, my two kids are celiac and there is some really weird substitutes for wheat flour in some products. Anyone who thinks gluten free is somehow healthier should read the ingredients labels.
- I didn't say it was a good sub in all cases. Just that it is a valid one for many.

is not always going to work.

How often does one have to try?

It depends on the recipe. Replacing egg with banana in muffins, where you mainly need it for the moisture? Works fine.
Replacing egg with banana in a custard, where you need it as a binding agent and stiffener? Won't work.
Replacing egg white with banana in a meringue? What are you even doing?
- Replacing egg white with banana in a meringue? What are you even doing?
  Having read more than one discussion column on recipe sites, I would not put it past some people. They would first complain that there are no instructions on how to separate a banana, then that whisking it does not produce something resembling a beaten egg white, and finally that baking it produces something not even close to meringue. Ah, yes, and because they added the amount of sugar given in the recipe, they'll finally complain about the result being overly sweet.
Simple: Try to make a mushroom omelette with bananas subbing for the eggs. Repeat until recipe produces a tasty mushroom omelette.
- It has to work, eventually!

The good thing is that bananas have no bones.

I only ever buy boneless bananas. It’s a good thing, too, as I’ve never been able to find bone-in bananas before at the grocery store.

Banana or applesauce can be an OK replacement for eggs. The latter works great as a binder in meatballs. The former ruins the meatballs, unless "banana meatballs" sounds delicious to you.

Plantain meatballs sounds great though!
- A plantain pork meatball legit sounds amazing.
  Crush/grind the plantain? Mix with ground pork, salt, pepper, cumin, garlic, pan fry and serve with a glaze? I think that might just work and I kind want to get it

I feel like you should at least have the ingredients that are in the name of the dish.

Crab Rangoon begs to differ, but that is an extreme example
- Welsh rarebit has entered the chat.
- It blows my mind that there is no raccoon in this dish...
- Tartar sauce enters the room.
Theseus' recipe. How many ingredients can you replace before it's a different dish?
- In this case one
To be fair in MOST things baking substituting some banana, pumpkin, applesauce, etc. for egg will work fine (and impart some flavor so, pick which one works for what you're doing) but in an uhh egg custard.... well... That is a bit different. (Really I would probably just use like potato starch to get something that would set correctly, but you would need to adjust flavor if you wanted to get it close since that won't give egg flavor.)
- In recipes that have egg as the star ingredient I add just a teeny pinch of kala namak, it adds a bit of the background sulfur flavor. I'm allergic to egg whites, but honestly I'm not sure I'd even bother with an egg custard. There are plenty of alternative desserts that dont need to be a vegan dish that's 80% starch lol

"NON-GMO"

Proceeds to use banana...

I agree that most anti-GMO stances are silly, but Cavendish bananas aren't GMO. (The history of major banana cultivars is super interesting, though!)
- Almost all food crops are GMO through the practice of selective breeding. Bananas have been altered to be sterile, seedless, and have larger edible fruit.
- but Cavendish bananas aren’t GMO
  They are. We took something barely edible in nature and bred it to the point where it's a tasty treat. It's a perfect example of GMO.
- Yes, but can us Pro-GMO get Gros Michels back into production? I'll let Monsanto inject me with 5G Tylenol vaccines for the rebirth of those yellow fatties.

This has to be bait, "no gmo gluten free vegans"?!

C'moooooon

Sounds like something you'd write on a placard at a protest.
Say no to GMO gluten-free vegans
Seriously I refuse to believe this is isn't a troll. Swapping eggs for bananas in an EGG custard is just baked banana.
My ex's Mom is a vegetarian (who also doesn't believe in using GMOs or a microwave) and her Dad has celiac and legitimately can't do gluten.
I hate trying to cook for them, and I REALLY hate it when they cook for me. Her Dad made these "dessert" balls that are made from flax seed and sadness the first time we met and I pretended to like them to be polite. Now he always makes me a bunch of them and I have to choke them down with a smile. I'll bee seeing them Friday and know I get to look forward to chomping on birdseed.
- Then you have people from the opposite end of the spectrum. One time I received "protein cookies" from a friend and it was just baked chocolate whey protein powder 🤣. You'd expect something like that to work okay-ish, but it was a very, very sad cookie with way too much sweetener.
- Flaxseed and sadness is a step up from cyanide and happiness
- If they're your ex's parents, I'd have thought you'd be rid of them and their terrible cooking.
Also the reply says the recipe is for an egg custard tart. Why would a vegan even be looking at a recipe like that?
- I'm a vegan of 4.5+ years.
  I've looked online many a time for vegan alternatives to recipes. Some are good. Some are shit.
  I've learned that if you still want to make good food as a vegan, sometimes that involves learning substitution "tricks" that can be used to turn a non-vegan dish into a vegan one.
  For eggs, I've mostly heard that you can replace those with soaked chia or flax seeds. You use the pectin that dissolves out of the seeds as the binder.
  I have also seen people only claim that apply sauce or bananas are good vegan substitutes for egg. I haven't really tried that out before in it's own, but I imagine that the combo of ( soaked chia/flax seed + banana/apple sauce ) is what emulates eggs the most. You get the binding power from the seeds, with the wet nature from the banana or apply sauce.
  FYI, vegans look for ways to "veganize" dishes all the time, especially at restaurants. Seldom do I want to take my friends or family to vegan-only restaurants because they tend to have "fat vegan" food. I'm better off enjoying a meal with them at a vegetarian/omnivore restaurant, which may or may not have vegan options. You have to learn to make substitutes on the fly to maintain your practice.
  Just my 2¢
- My wife was gluten free for awhile for health reasons on doctors orders. She would try to make the most outrageous gluten free versions of food because she missed them, but they were always terrible. I kept telling her, instead of making a bad version of a good food, make healthy food taste good.
- The benefit of the doubt would be that they liked custard tarts before going vegan and wanted to try and make a vegan version?
I've met people like this. They are real and usually not invited back.
Edit: same to anyone claiming to be allergic to msg! Mfer I just saw you drink a bloody Mary!
- In defense of the MSG thing - afaik you can't actually be allergic to it (outside of some super rare conditions, like the ones where youre allergic to things like icewater) but it is a relatively common migraine trigger. Downing it with booze, which for many people helps with migraines (the vasodilator/vasoconstrictor effects sorta cancel eachother out) means it has a minimal effect.
  This isn't everyone, obviously migraines are uncommon and ones triggered by MSG are an extension in rarity, but it is explicable behavior in a very real subset of the population.
People with dietary restrictions, often have several. It’s because they they think more about their food.

Thing is a ripe mashed banana can be used as an egg substitute for recipes. Not that one clearly.

Ok, but ... sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn't an egg, you know?
- Not really, cause nobody claimed it was.
Probably not when it's the main ingredient like in this case
Might as well just make a banana pie
- I followed your advice and made a banana pie. But as I didn't have any bananas at hand I replaced them with eggs. The pie had an eggy consistency and didn't taste anything like banana.
  Bad advice, 1/10, wouldn't do it again.
- Instructions unclear; what do I do with this circuit board?

I used to try and gauge how good a recipe I found online is by reading through the comments that people leave below. However, about 10 years ago or so, I had to stop because it seemed like nearly every single one had multiple comments like this, though not quite as extreme. I think some people are like me, they must enjoy pretending to be faceboomers and leaving ridiculous comments on random sites. I still remember one that I read a while ago that gave me a giant chuckle. But most of them just give me heart burn. Then again so does eggs.

I love recipe comments like these. It is really just insight into how absolutely ludicrous and entitled people are. Why can't your recipe simply bend reality to my will, and modify itself into what I desire to give me the outcome of my dreams.
"Instead of chicken I used an unborn cow's fetus and it tasted a bit funny, 1/5 stars"
- We didn't have any potatoes on hand for the potato salad so we used diced up and used our pet clown fish instead. It tasted funny.
I feel like about ten years ago the Internet was invaded by non Internet people. As in there was a large influx of idiots who were previously unable to be online because it required an actual PC, stable internet connection and some know how. Then dipshits with iPhones started posting their dumbass stream of thought messages with voice to text.
I die a little each time I read something and some halfwit used "ewe" instead of "you."
- It's called "Eternal September" and happened when AOL started.

A+ for diplomacy

Mashed bananas and scrambled eggs are the same!

*Massed banana
- Purchased a bunch at church.
they both look like monkey vomit.
- Monkey vomit is just mashed banana with extra steps

I would like to believe people like this don't exist. But sadly, they do.

Think of the average person. Half the population is dumber than that.
- Average is sensitive to outliers, it is possible more than half is below it (or above).
  You want median.

This seems like a troll, because there are other (better) egg substitutes that a vegan would likely already know of.

I don't know. I was vegan for a good 10 years and during that time met a lot of really stupid vegans. They're not the majority, but they're out there.
- wait... chicken parmesan is not vegan?
- Yes, and even then, I have met some amazingly smart and successful people whose lifestyle-become-creed has led them into some amazingly stupid situations. Including a few vegans.
  We are all stupid at some point in our lives at some things.
- Fair point. I guess I figured at least flax seed would be a given, as even I know about it (and I'm not vegan).
In the same way that not everyone is a competent cook, not all vegans are competent cooks. I don't find it too surprising that someone might naively think "banana in this custard would be nice" without grasping that the egg is structurally important for the dish rather than for flavor or protein.
- Mashed banana is a good substitute for egg in lots of baking recipe, like cakes and such, but for custard it wouldn't work at all, cornflour is probably what they want to use, or something along those lines. A thickening agent.

I think the egg functions as a thickener in there, so some kind of starch or maybe a vegan gelatin would work.

Pectic is the vegan gelatin you're referring to. Usually vegans can find that in packets like gelatin from the store, although another source is from chia or flax seeds.
You soak the seeds in water for probably 1-2 hours, and the liquid as a result contains the pectin from the seeds.
Pectin like this and bananas (or often apple sauce) likely emulate eggs the best. You get the binding power from the seeds, and the wetness from the bananas/apple sauce
would banana work?
- Yes, replace the starch with a banana and more starch.
- Probably not. It's high in starch but not a great thickener, and it doesn't set.
Not in an egg custard. That's an egg / milk dish.
- Well, obviously you're taking liberties. You could come up with something broadly similar though. Coconut milk and starch probably.