You must eat the banana whole. You can mash it, slice it, or blend it, but you can also put it straight into your mouth, maybe choke on it, or if you are lucky, swallow it without chewing. The hardest part might be when it slides down your throat, like an old rusted slide, with irritating stops, pain, suffocation. But the banana can make its way down, I am convinced of that. Its ergonomics, texture, and softness will help. What you have to do is eat it without fear. Look at it one last time, and the next thing you will see is its empty peel, no banana inside.