[2] Credit for the pie's invention is claimed by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding,[3] the owner and chef respectively of the former Hungry Monk Restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex, England.

[8] In 1984, several supermarkets began selling it as an American pie, leading Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove their claim to be the English inventors.

[9] Dowding stated that his "pet hates are biscuit crumb bases and that horrible cream in aerosols".

[11] The word banoffee entered the English language, used to describe any food or product that tastes or smells of both banana and toffee.

This is presumably for safety reasons, as tins of condensed milk bear the warning: "Caution - Do not boil unopened can as bursting may occur.