• @Retro_unlimited
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    475 months 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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      115 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
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        235 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    415 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
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      65 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Huh. I’m going to start doing this. I usually open them from the stem.

      EDIT: lol fixed my crazy autocorrect mistake 🤣

    • @TastyWheat
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      35 months ago

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

  • Lladra
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    225 months ago

    The outside.

  • @[email protected]
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    185 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
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      I use the same method for the same reason but prefer no green, instead with small brown spots (no big ones) for ideal ripeness.

  • @Siegfried
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    175 months ago

    I brake it in half with my hands

  • @[email protected]
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    155 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    135 months ago

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

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    125 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
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      75 months ago

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

  • @southernbrewer
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    125 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

    • @Crashumbc
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      35 months ago

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

  • @AirDevil
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    105 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.

    • FenrirIII
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      85 months ago

      Otherwise known as the coward’s way