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[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 76 points 4 months ago (11 children)

You can just pinch the end of a banana to start peeling it. The effort required is far less than trying to overcome the ripping force of the stem.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Monkeys peel bananas also like this.

[–] Ogeon@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love how it skillfully peels the banana and then eats the peel anyway. Amazing.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

But not the stem!

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bananas are the way they are through millenia of selective breeding, so there's no reason to think that monkeys know anything we don't. If pinching the bottom is easier than bending the stem, your banana isn't ripe yet and doesn't want to be eaten until later.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A) that seems backwards: an under ripe banana will be stiff inside so you can snap the peel around the stem when you bend it, while a riper, softer banana will mush inside when you bend the stem. And,

B) like I give a fuck what a banana wants

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A) The peel becomes easier to tear faster than the inside gets softer. You don't need to snap it, it doesn't need nearly enough tension to count as a snap once it's ripe.

B) The banana's been selectively bred to want to be as delicious as possible. It only wants you to be happy.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

I'd like to apologize for my remarks regarding banana

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried opening a banana from the bottom like described in the comment?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Every time, it's gone less well than opening a banana from the stem end, unless the banana was horrendously underripe. I've never had the problem the alternative approach is claiming to fix unless I've intentionally opened the banana badly on purpose to prove a point about the problem really being people opening from the stem end incompetently.

[–] Twista713@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

While I can concede your point that it's feasible and possibly even more practical to open from the stem, I gotta say that since switching to the other end years ago(because I saw a similar thread on reddit), it's been super easy and I've had zero issues. The stem just has a higher rate of fucking up, but it's not like either end will fully decimate the banana. Peeling properly after it's opened is an easy fix either way.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Exactly. The professionals showed us the way.

[–] ShadowAndFlame@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

And then you have a handle to hold it by when you get to the end (beginning?)!

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just use my fingernail to make a small cut at the stem end and then it's super easy to peel that back

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 months ago

This is the way.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's way too slow.

Take one end in each hand, hold it "like a frown" in front of you.
Bend it in half downward and bite the peak of the bend with one of your canines.
when it snaps open, shove one half of the banana into your mouth, (chew if needed, then) swallow.
Shovel the other half into your mount, (chew if needed, then) swallow.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was today-years-old when I learned the ideal way to eat a banana.

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

And that's only the oral method.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago

My partner hates when I open bananas like this because there's a little dark part of the banana under that end of the peel that she calls "The Ban-anus" and thinks it's gross even if I pick off that part and don't eat it.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't get the banana trick. What do I do after pinching? I just end up ripping through the skin of one while trying it out.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

It basically allows you to start peeling immediately.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

This also prevents those weird banana strings from forming!

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Fuck you, I'll keep peeling the banana stem-first!

[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

People peel from the stem? What?!

[–] _thisdot@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

That feels wrong! Also what’s the scale of the banana in your picture? 2 bananas?