Review on Amazon: A banana for scale should be to scale https://a.co/d/aAZPaX4

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1 star review by user “Tall Guys Wife” on Amazon of a rubber banana that has the words [for scale] on it.
Picture attached shows rubber banana is smaller than real banana.

Review text reads: “purchased this 'banana for scale, but it’s way smaller than an average banana. People on social media demand if you’re showing something that you use an average banana for scale. I would never deceive anyone with this ridiculous substitute for an accurate measuring tool.”

  • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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    3 months ago

    Tbf, I’d also be kinda pissed if I bought a meme banana and it wasn’t the size of a real banana. You had one job…

    • @Cheems
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      283 months ago

      IT LOOKS LIKE AN AVERAGE SIZED BANANA TO ME. TOO BIG EVEN MAYBE

    • @CptEnder
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      93 months ago

      I’m surprised more things aren’t measured in football pitches

      • @chiliedogg
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        03 months ago

        We talking real football or the one where you use your feet?

  • Lux
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    243 months ago

    Actually that banana’s kinda big

    • @[email protected]
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      143 months ago

      Maybe it is a regional thing? I’m from the US and that is pretty much the size of every banana at my grocery store.

      To clarify, by regional I mean that the US disproportionately buys / sells a variety of bananas that is just bigger. Though I’ll admit I have not taken the time to google this so 🤷

      • Lux
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        73 months ago

        You’re thinking too hard, i was just making a penis joke lmao

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Its the same for bananas in Romania, but i know that at least in Egypt the bananas are closer in size to the fake banana

    • key
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      73 months ago

      Agreed. Another review has a picture holding it and it looks like typical banana size. That banana is just a banana of unusual size.

      • @SuperIce
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        23 months ago

        Bananas in the US are pretty large though.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup
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        33 months ago

        Thank you for the hope. You can still buy the gros michel, but it’s breathtakingly expensive. I’d love to finally try one.

          • ɔiƚoxɘup
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            3 months ago

            You can only buy them by the crate and their hundreds of dollars and you can pretty much be guaranteed that half of them will spoil during shipment. I may actually go in with a number of other people and purchase an entire crate of them but I’m not really sure I could find enough people that will be willing to pay or split the cost, especially with the knowledge that a bunch of them are probably going to spoil along the way.

            Edit: It’s $36 for one banana with shipping costs.

            $127 for a small box. I don’t have that kind of banana money

            Source https://miamifruit.org

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months ago

    Americans will argue over the size of bananas instead of using a proper measuring system, smh.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    There be no blasphemy or deception like using a plastic banana rather than whatever random banana they have at your local store.

  • Zier
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    103 months ago

    I have a totally different kind of banana you could use for scale. wink wink

  • asudox
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    73 months ago

    Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

  • @buzz86us
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    73 months ago

    I feel like a.BIC pen is much better for scale

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      23 months ago

      But there’s a flaw. You’ve already lost it.

      Maybe a different fairly popular but far less likely to be lost pen. How about Lamy Safari (Vista and Al-Star can be used too - same dimensions).