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What side do you open a banana from?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the outside

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh… That makes sense.

      The outside…

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Clever Hobbitses…

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      • Gonkulator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • inspxtr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      hm, I think I’ve been doing it wrong then …

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  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, butt:
      Image

      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.

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      • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        lol I cut that tip off

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    • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also when you drop the peel on the ground for someone to comically slip on, it looks like it does in the cartoons.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Huh. I’m going to start doing this. I Isuzu open them from the stem.

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      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I Isuzu from the stem but suzuki from the bottom now, where the seed is

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    • TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do what you do. If it’s good enough for monke, it’s good enough for me.

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  • Lladra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The outside.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I brake it in half with my hands

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    • Vordimous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thisbis the way

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  • Nottalottapies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The outside?

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This thread is starting to remind me of this

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unscrew the tip of the faucet and hide it inside the faucet. Even a metal detector wouldn’t find it.

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    • DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve no idea what happened but yes, I totally somehow commented in the wrong thread? 😂

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For posterity: dormi.zone/post/1915307

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • eronth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup. Literally just pinch the bottom nub and it’s open.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s the way monkeys eat them. It’s the easiest way

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  • southernbrewer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sick. What’s the button combo for this one?

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While I don’t use your visualisation technique, this is the best method.

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  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Middle out

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    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow, people still quote Silicon Valley?

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the wrong answer lol

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  • strawberry@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the correct one

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  • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What

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  • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ain’t nobody got time for that!

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  • HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wait, you’re supposed to peel them?

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    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Otherwise known as the coward’s way

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  • AirDevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I eat it with the crust.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mostly snapping it in half. Sometimes the monkey end(not the stem).

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    • Eczpurt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’.

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      • Vordimous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the way

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All of them.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At once?

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      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah. Like the Lilly interview scene in Late Night with the Devil.

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  • dyc3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anal cavity

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  • invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What do you mean… Open??? Don’t you guys just chomp on them

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, but which side do you chomp first?

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      • invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The middle

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I usually prefer a banana a little on the green side, so its bottom for me.

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  • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Centre. With a knife. Because I rarely eat more than half a banana at a time.

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    • beccaboben@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same but I don’t use a knife, you can just snap bananas in half with your bare hands!

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  • MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The responses to this post have me more than a little rattled

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  • ForestOrca@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The outside.

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  • Lavitz@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Neither side. You break it in half. Am I the only person that does this?

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    • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zatoichi approves.

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