I used to open it from the stem side, but then I saw video of a monkey open from the bottom… I tried it and it was easier to open especially the less ripe ones.
What side do you open a banana from?
Submitted 11 months ago by HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club to [deleted]
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Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Yes, butt:
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I also saw a video of a monkey peeling it from the stem side and then proceeding to clean it of all those stringy bits before finally eating it.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lol I cut that tip off
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes, i too recently discovered opening from the bottom. It actually opens easier, the stem becomes a little handle andsome people look at me like I’m an alien which is added fun
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also when you drop the peel on the ground for someone to comically slip on, it looks like it does in the cartoons.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
The bottom. Which I guess is the bit without the sticky out but that it’s snapped of a bunch with. You just squeeze the bottom black bit and it opens up.
Most people I see pull the top but that’s more unreliable. I believe monkeys will use my technique, or rather I’m using theirs.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Interestingly, that’s where they flower. Banana growers knock the flowers off so they can’t pollinate leaving it with the black bit on the end that’s easy to open.
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Huh. I’m going to start doing this. I Isuzu open them from the stem.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I Isuzu from the stem but suzuki from the bottom now, where the seed is
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I do what you do. If it’s good enough for monke, it’s good enough for me.
Lladra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The outside.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
The stem side. I enjoy them as long as they are slightly green, so usually the skin breaks easily when bent. Otherwise I will use a sharp knife and make an horizontal incision at the start of the stem to facilitate the peeling.
I am aware of the way monkeys open them, tried and didn’t like it because of the dark mushy part at the end of the fruit, opening from the stem allows to easily leave it behind.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use the same method for the same reason but prefer no green, instead with small brown spots (no big ones) indicating ideal ripeness for me.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I brake it in half with my hands
Vordimous@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Thisbis the way
Nottalottapies@aussie.zone 11 months ago
The outside?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I take my fingernail and run it along the inner spine splitting the banana skin open so I can extract the banana. I then carefully repose the banana skin in the fruit bowl so that it appears it is an unopened banana.
This is the only correct way to eat a banana.
CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Unscrew the tip of the faucet and hide it inside the faucet. Even a metal detector wouldn’t find it.
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
[deleted]jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I’ve no idea what happened but yes, I totally somehow commented in the wrong thread? 😂
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
For posterity: dormi.zone/post/1915307
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I eat it from the end opposite the stem: Just pop the nub off like a button and split from there. I have found it to be, by far, the easiest way to open a banana.
eronth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yup. Literally just pinch the bottom nub and it’s open.
Scrollone@feddit.it 11 months ago
That’s the way monkeys eat them. It’s the easiest way
southernbrewer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like to hold the banana upright facing away from me, and then I sneak up behind it and use a really sharp knife to sever the jugular part way through before I rip its head backward, peeling the skin all the way down its spine.
It’s immensely satisfying, especially the crisp clear sound the knife makes as it cuts off the life force
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Sick. What’s the button combo for this one?
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While I don’t use your visualisation technique, this is the best method.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Middle out
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Wow, people still quote Silicon Valley?
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 11 months ago
This is the wrong answer lol
strawberry@kbin.run 11 months ago
the correct one
4grams@awful.systems 11 months ago
[deleted]HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
wait, you’re supposed to peel them?
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Otherwise known as the coward’s way
AirDevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The outward facing part from how it grows, not where the stem is. Used to think that was the bottom, but it’s the top. Just pinch it and it opens easier every time.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I eat it with the crust.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mostly snapping it in half. Sometimes the monkey end(not the stem).
Eczpurt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the way. You can avoid the funky Satan’s anus portion like normal and you get to open it incredibly quickly. Bonus you get two halves that are easy to use for peanut butter + banana ‘hotdogs’.
Vordimous@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
This is the way
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So, for me it depends.
Do I have a knife handy? The stem. If not you can mush less from the bottom by pinching the end and pulling
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All of them.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
At once?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah. Like the Lilly interview scene in Late Night with the Devil.
dyc3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anal cavity
invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What do you mean… Open??? Don’t you guys just chomp on them
howrar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, but which side do you chomp first?
invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The middle
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Depends on how ripe they are. Before they go spotty the stem end is usually thicker than the blossom end, so I open from the bottom. Once it’s ripe then the stem is usually much easier.
VulKendov@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Yeah I usually prefer a banana a little on the green side, so its bottom for me.
neidu2@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Centre. With a knife. Because I rarely eat more than half a banana at a time.
beccaboben@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same but I don’t use a knife, you can just snap bananas in half with your bare hands!
MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The responses to this post have me more than a little rattled
ForestOrca@kbin.social 11 months ago
The outside.
Lavitz@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Neither side. You break it in half. Am I the only person that does this?
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zatoichi approves.
Nemo@midwest.social 11 months ago
the outside
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Oh… That makes sense.
The outside…
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Clever Hobbitses…
Gonkulator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
inspxtr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hm, I think I’ve been doing it wrong then …