Desserts of fried plantains gobbled up by bachelors (6,6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

(PLANTAINS)* AInd: fried, inside BAS (bachelors).  First one in. Methuselah being nice to us including that extra hint as plantains being a type of banana cultivar What we in UK know as a dessert banana is the Cavendish