• @RustyEarthfire
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    1032 months ago

    For anyone wondering, this doesn’t actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 months ago

      That’s why you should cover them. If they don’t have any visual references to the horizon, their vestibular system will trick them into thinking they are upside down.

      • Margot Robbie
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        42 months ago

        Fun fact: Queensland accounts for 97 percent of Australia’s banana production, so this sounds like a question for a Queenslander.

        Now, if only there is someone we know on Lemmy from Queensland…

        • @lemmy_get_my_coat
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          42 months ago

          I’m a Queenslander! Only joking, I’m just brain damaged.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Yeah, it’s probably more like a chemical reaction of some kind. Like how some flowers close at night.

  • @NorthWestWind
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    2 months ago

    My dad did that, and one day I walked out of my room and saw only peels on the hanger. I looked down and saw 3 naked bananas on the floor.

    But they did take longer to spoil. That’s why we forgot about them.

    • @Dozzi92
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      32 months ago

      I hang mine, not by a hanger that’s weird, but by an old paper tower roll holder that is just three metal arms that I now hang bananas from, which is probably weirder than a hanger. I think they ripen at the same rate, but they don’t get bruised from sitting on a counter or something. I happen to prefer my bananas with splotchy peels.

      Anyway, also have totally come into my kitchen to peels agape, banana meat exposed for the world to see, dangling as though they’d been sentenced for murder in the Old West.

  • @[email protected]
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    242 months ago

    The bananas won’t be fooled, because everyone knows that bananas are straight until they get picked and the banana bender puts the bend in them.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    Is there any way I can determine how big that coat hanger is? Is there something I can compare it to for scale?

    • @lugal
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      22 months ago

      I remember vaguely from biology class that banana plants look like trees but are quite fragile indeed

    • masterofn001
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      32 months ago

      I use a hammock every day!

      My banana is always green and ripe.

      Maybe I should shower.

    • @ivanafterall
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      12 months ago

      Keep them swaddled in their own twin bed and they fall right off the bone.

  • @taiyang
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    22 months ago

    I just hang my bananas from the telephone wire to let others know I deal in bananas.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    02 months ago

    Is the off-gas heavier than air? That could explain it

    • @marcos
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      22 months ago

      Is the off-gas heavier than air?

      Actually, no. There are very few organic hormones that are lighter than air, probably just this one.

      Not much lighter either, by the way.