My Tatay (grandfather) found a bomb nozzle from an abandoned Japanese military headquarters in Northern Mindanao in the Philippines. This was when the Japanese left following the end of the Second World War in 1945. When the war destroyed most of their belongings, Tatay converted the bomb nozzle into a mortar for mashing the banana. In Binisaya, mortar is called lusóng. When rice and corn were limited, Tatay’s family survived with mashed bananas, locally known as nilusak.