I Love Fresh Bananas

**piperdbh** · 1st December 10, 12:24 PM

There's nothing wrong with tearing them apart. I've seen little old ladies search and hunt and look for a bunch of 2 or 3 bananas. You might be helping somebody out by busting up the big clumps of fruit.

**Riverkilt** · 1st December 10, 09:19 PM

I've found bananas ripen faster if you seperate them, and last longer and stay fresher if I leave them attached in the bunch.

Also learned to open them from the base, like monkeys do, so there are fewer of those stringy things attached to the meat.

**BoldHighlander** · 2nd December 10, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

I guess we need to just buy less at a time. But I don't want to be "that guy" who tears apart the bunches of bananas at the produce aisle.

Originally Posted by piperdbh

There's nothing wrong with tearing them apart. I've seen little old ladies search and hunt and look for a bunch of 2 or 3 bananas. You might be helping somebody out by busting up the big clumps of fruit.

That's what I do.
I don't wish to purchase more than I know I'm going to eat, so why waste the extra?

**Tobus** · 2nd December 10, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

There's nothing wrong with tearing them apart. I've seen little old ladies search and hunt and look for a bunch of 2 or 3 bananas. You might be helping somebody out by busting up the big clumps of fruit.

Yeah, that makes sense. But it still feels like I'm busting apart a 6-pack of sodas or something.

**CDNSushi** · 2nd December 10, 07:12 AM

Lol... When I read the thread title and started reading, I thought I had walked into a lost, stray joke that had got misplaced from Craig's Corner... So I kept reading, waiting and expecting a punch line.

Only when none came did I realize that it was actually a straight thread.... Jeeez, I think I need a holiday.

(I guess there's just something inherently funny about bananas...)

/Walks off... Muttering.

**Tobus** · 2nd December 10, 07:40 AM

(I guess there's just something inherently funny about bananas...)

As Freud said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

**vmac3205** · 2nd December 10, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

Yeah, that makes sense. But it still feels like I'm busting apart a 6-pack of sodas or something.

Isn't guilt a wonderful thing?

**Spc. Scott** · 2nd December 10, 08:15 AM

Amazingly, I have never heard of putting the bunch into water to keep fresh. Makes perfect sense, of course, just never seen it done.

**Luckey** · 2nd December 10, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by Drac

I'm a definitely different strokes kind of guy

I buy bananas and than let them hang for a week or more before eating them. I like mine with tons of brown spots (not bruises) before even consider eating them.

Jim

I'm with you on this one too. Also, all our friends are now in the habit of giving us their over-ripe bananas and we peel and freeze them three to a bag - just right for our banana bread recipe.

**wildrover** · 2nd December 10, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by CDNSushi

Lol... When I read the thread title and started reading, I thought I had walked into a lost, stray joke that had got misplaced from Craig's Corner... So I kept reading, waiting and expecting a punch line.

Only when none came did I realize that it was actually a straight thread.... Jeeez, I think I need a holiday.

(I guess there's just something inherently funny about bananas...)

/Walks off... Muttering.

Same here.

I haven't bought bananas in a while. Too many and I get sick of them, and invariably they end up in bread because they're too funky to eat normally.