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 2 years ago by HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club to [deleted]
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Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years 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 2 years ago
lol I cut that tip off
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Huh. I’m going to start doing this. I Isuzu open them from the stem.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I Isuzu from the stem but suzuki from the bottom now, where the seed is
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I do what you do. If it’s good enough for monke, it’s good enough for me.
Lladra@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The outside.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
I brake it in half with my hands
Vordimous@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Thisbis the way
Nottalottapies@aussie.zone 2 years ago
The outside?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years 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 2 years ago
[deleted]jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I’ve no idea what happened but yes, I totally somehow commented in the wrong thread? 😂
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
For posterity: dormi.zone/post/1915307
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years ago
Yup. Literally just pinch the bottom nub and it’s open.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 years ago
That’s the way monkeys eat them. It’s the easiest way
southernbrewer@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Sick. What’s the button combo for this one?
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
While I don’t use your visualisation technique, this is the best method.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Middle out
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Wow, people still quote Silicon Valley?
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 years ago
This is the wrong answer lol
strawberry@kbin.run 2 years ago
the correct one
4grams@awful.systems 2 years ago
[deleted]HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
wait, you’re supposed to peel them?
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Otherwise known as the coward’s way
AirDevil@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
I eat it with the crust.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Mostly snapping it in half. Sometimes the monkey end(not the stem).
Eczpurt@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
This is the way
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
All of them.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
At once?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah. Like the Lilly interview scene in Late Night with the Devil.
dyc3@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Anal cavity
invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What do you mean… Open??? Don’t you guys just chomp on them
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Yeah, but which side do you chomp first?
invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
The middle
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years 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 2 years ago
Yeah I usually prefer a banana a little on the green side, so its bottom for me.
neidu2@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Centre. With a knife. Because I rarely eat more than half a banana at a time.
beccaboben@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Same but I don’t use a knife, you can just snap bananas in half with your bare hands!
MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The responses to this post have me more than a little rattled
ForestOrca@kbin.social 2 years ago
The outside.
Lavitz@lemmings.world 2 years ago
Neither side. You break it in half. Am I the only person that does this?
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Zatoichi approves.
Nemo@midwest.social 2 years ago
the outside
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
Oh… That makes sense.
The outside…
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Clever Hobbitses…
Gonkulator@lemm.ee 2 years ago
inspxtr@lemmy.world 2 years ago
hm, I think I’ve been doing it wrong then …